When you have children it completely shifts your focus; they become the most passionate love of your life. — Louis de Bernieres Copy Share Image
In spite of what youngsters think, parents do not get a sneaky thrill out of punishing their children. — Eoin Colfer Copy Share Image
Relationships are complicated no matter what style of parenting you choose. — Mayim Bialik Copy Share Image
When I was a child, I dreaded blindness. We used to ask: 'Would we rather be blind or deaf?' I said I'd… — Sue Townsend Copy Share Image
Children know from a remarkably early age that things are being kept from them, that grown-ups participate in a world of mysteries. — Anthony Hecht Copy Share Image
When parents blame other people for their child/children's action, that right there's a bad parent stop putting your responsibilities on others. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As a parent, if you have multiple kids, you can't teach them all the same thing because they all have different personalities.… — LeBron James Copy Share Image
When people are hungry, when a mother or father is facing a child that they can't feed, you can't ask that family… — Ertharin Cousin Copy Share Image
“It's like parents choosing to raise their own standard of living rather than to provide for the future of their kids. You… — Sylvia Engdahl Copy Share Image
“It’s not the job of the child to make the parent happy. It’s the job of the parent to take care of… — Art Hochberg Copy Share Image
I firmly believe kids don't want your understanding. They want your trust, your compassion, your blinding love and your car keys, but… — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
The first six years of a child's life, it is like a tape recorder is on. Everything it sees, smells, touches, experiences… — Bruce Lipton Copy Share Image
“I can think of another quickie education for a child, which, in its way, is almost as salutary: Meeting a human being… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“They are not born reasonable and unselfish; they are born unreasonable and selfish. They want what they want when they want it,… — Thomas W. Phelan Copy Share Image
Sadly, semi-consciousness, along with daydreaming, is a capacity that is actively discouraged among children in schools, and our society is much poorer… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
The great thing about having a child is that it keeps you very grounded. When I decided to have my daughter I… — Carolyn Murphy Copy Share Image
“occasions, the way she would wipe the tears from her children’s cheeks and whisper: “No one ever said life was going to… — Fredrik Backman Copy Share Image
“We need to be raising our children for LIFE. Life is not a small system within 4 walls. Life is vast and… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
Just stick with your kids. There's no set of rules on how to be a parent. No handbook. Just hang around your… — Denzel Washington Copy Share Image
