“As a parent, you are a powerful change agent. Sustainable human development starts in the family with conscious parenting.” — Chidi Ejeagba Copy Share Image
“If you can control your behavior when everything around you is out of control, you can model for your children a valuable… — Jane Clayson Johnson Copy Share Image
If you are a 5-year-old, you just go ahead and try something. You don't think about it. You are just a little… — Quvenzhane Wallis Copy Share Image
When you're a child, you take things for granted. For instance, my mum didn't have a lot of money, but I went… — Holliday Grainger Copy Share Image
I've always taken my love of children from my father. He was a children magnet. Suddenly, having my first child hit home… — Robert Carlyle Copy Share Image
I worry whether it's not really the best way to live one's life - trying to fulfill the dreams you had as… — Joe Cornish Copy Share Image
The child, merely by going on with his life, learns to speak the language belonging to his race. It is like a… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
You can't be the dad who takes your kid out after your wife has said, 'No ice cream,' buys the ice cream,… — Howie Mandel Copy Share Image
It's not good to assume what your kid wants. It's not good to push them in their own way. It's not good… — Quvenzhane Wallis Copy Share Image
Children are just different from one another, especially in temperament. Some are shy, others bold; some active, others quiet; some confident, others… — Sandra Scarr Copy Share Image
A concern with parenting...must direct attention beyond behavior. This is because parenting is not simply a set of behaviors, but participation in… — Nancy Chodorow Copy Share Image
Our own unresolved authority problems from our youth sometimes get transferred to our youthful patients, because we are still "covert adolescent rebels."… — Virgil Miller Newton Copy Share Image
[On parents:] They're not gods to be pleased or devils to be exorcised. They're just there, and we can only hope they… — Helen Van Slyke Copy Share Image
“Having worked so hard to have children, parents may feel it's only natural to expect happiness from the experience. And they'll find… — Jennifer Senior Copy Share Image
“Begin to assess your own parenting. Acknowledging the painful reality that it is impossible to be a child of a narcissist and… — Karyl McBride Copy Share Image
“For example, parent support could be most important in the early grades, when children's academic self-image is just beginning to coalesce, but… — Karl Alexander Copy Share Image
“The most powerful way to keep your children from being attracted by the offers of camaraderie from the wicked is to make… — Tedd Tripp Copy Share Image
What people somehow forgot to mention when we were children was that we need to make messes in order to find out… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“perhaps all parents feel this way, but the only thing Kira has ever wanted for her kids was health, safety, and a… — Fredrik Backman Copy Share Image
That's the funny thing about havin' a kid. They come with their own set of problems; make everything else you were worried… — Greg Garcia Copy Share Image
“Our own sense of imperfection and insecurity shouldn't prevent a conscientious effort to nourish a sense of security in our kids.” — Diane Medved Copy Share Image
Life has a tendency to obfuscate and bewilder, Such as fating us to spend the first part of our lives being embarrassed… — Ogden Nash Copy Share Image
Nurturing a child’s sense of personal worth and therefore hope and dreams for a wonderful future is perhaps the most important responsibility… — Wess Stafford Copy Share Image
I love to sing and play the piano. As a child, I've always loved to sing my heart out, and even my… — Terence Lewis Copy Share Image
“Kids aren't stupid; we figure things out. We don't want to wreck our lives any more than you do. As long as… — William Glasser Copy Share Image
In early childhood you may lay the foundation of poverty or riches, industry or idleness, good or evil, by the habits to… — Lydia Sigourney Copy Share Image
Cannot we let [children] be themselves, and enjoy life in their own way? You are trying to make another you. One's enough. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
When you think about it, the most important thing to a toy is to be played with by a child, and anything… — Lee Unkrich Copy Share Image
Children are born innocent. Before they are domesticated they live in the moment, love without fear, and don't even think about the… — Miguel Angel Ruiz Copy Share Image
The black kids, the poor white kids, Spanish-speaking kids, and Asian kids in the US - in the face of everything to… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Like any good parent you are trying to get the kid in a position where he is stronger and more powerful, and… — Timothy Olyphant Copy Share Image
Children need loving attention, closeness and deep affection and also loving touch. Love will make them feel safe. — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
I didn't really know I wanted to act when I was a child. I have a lot of interests, and I really… — Jordan Bridges Copy Share Image
The curiosity that children have has greater potential to become genius, when we direct them in proper channel and encouragement. — Senoraroy Copy Share Image
“You have a wonderful child. Then, when he's thirteen, gremlins carry him away and leave in his place a stranger who gives… — Jill Eikenberry Copy Share Image
Our kids are not here to comfort us, to entertain us, or to validate us. Those things need to come from ourselves… — Marge M. Kennedy Copy Share Image
“Children who observe an adult intentionally manipulating an object have a strong tendency to encode all of the adult's actions as meaningful.” — David DiSalvo Copy Share Image
Being a parent gives you historical perspective. You have thoughts about how you fit into a larger generational drama - those who… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
To have a child when you're older, it wrenches you up out of your nap and makes you look at things, you… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
I'd long wanted to write about that moment when a woman steps off the career track to have her first child. For… — Hallie Ephron Copy Share Image
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