“That was when I learned that kindness could break a heart just as sure as meanness. The difference was the kindness made… — Susie Finkbeiner Copy Share Image
“Somehow kids are supposed to match the levels of calm and composure we might find in mature forty-seven-year-olds. Estimates” — Tyler Cowen Copy Share Image
To be a good parent, you need to take care of yourself so that you can have the physical and emotional energy… — Michelle Obama Copy Share Image
Kids can handle a lot more than you think they can. It's when they get to be grown up that you have… — Anne Ursu Copy Share Image
“Do you know the greatest gift a parent can give to a child?” she asked, looking around the room. No one answered.… — Michael Scott Copy Share Image
“When we mother well, we teach our children to embrace the moral obligations that build solid relationships, healthy marriages, and secure families.” — Jani Ortlund Copy Share Image
“To demystify the meaning of love, the art and practice of loving, we need to use sound definitions of love when talking… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
Stepparenting is like working at a late-night convenience store...all of the responsibility and none of the authority. — Valerie J Lewis Coleman Copy Share Image
The principal task is to put spiritual foundations under both our child's life and our own. This triggers a shift in the… — Shefali Tsabary Copy Share Image
Dear Lord, make me a better parent. Teach me to understand my children, to listen patiently to what they have to say… — Gary Myers Copy Share Image
I read a great deal as a child. A lot of children go through a phase of reading in a literally voracious… — J. M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
Ever since I was a child, I've just had this sense that I'm connected to the spiritual world. I thought everyone else… — Suzi Quatro Copy Share Image
“I just want my kids to love who they are, have happy lives and find something they want to do and make… — Susan Sarandon Copy Share Image
As a parent, it's my responsibility to equip my child to do this - to grieve when grief is necessary and to… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
I can't think of any more important value to instill in our children than the desire to help others. I feel strongly… — Matt Damon Copy Share Image
Mindful parenting is the hardest job on the planet, but it's also one that has the potential for the deepest kinds of… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
“Even now he could not say in his heart of hearts for which side he would draw his blade when he was… — Ruth Downie Copy Share Image
“Children needed space more than overprotection. Parents who hovered were meeting their own needs, not their children’s.” — Martha Woodroof Copy Share Image
I like sugar, be it candy, this season's pumpkin chocolate chip bars, or wine. Sugar is bad for me. It just sits… — Alicia Coppola Copy Share Image
“As a good parent or teacher, we should teach our children that failure is an opportunity for improvement and growth, rather than… — Asa Don Brown Copy Share Image
Every child is going to grow up. You can see it happen in the books: They get older and older and belong… — Jock Sturges Copy Share Image
Respect children because they're human beings and they deserve respect, and they'll grow up to be better people. — Benjamin Spock Copy Share Image
The reward of child rearing is spending the rest of your life proudly knowing this person you helped guide. Let him be… — Mike Sager Copy Share Image
All of the children need to know, all of the little kiddies and fetuses out there. Even if they're not out of… — Josie Totah Copy Share Image
Children tell themselves stories, engage in self-delusion and fantasy, but those narratives are more evolving than calcified - and with that malleability… — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
“Tantrums are not bad behavior. Tantrums are an expression of emotion that became too much for the child to bear. No punishment… — Rebecca Eanes Copy Share Image
My strong personal view, which I believe is shared by millions of Americans, is that our party should make a strong statement… — Robert Casey Copy Share Image
Our deeds are like children that are born to us; they live and act apart from our own will. Nay, children may… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
There are children born to be children, and others who must mark time till they can take their natural places as adults. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
As a parent, when I fail to listen to my kids, when our kids stop bringing us our problems, we have all… — B. J. Armstrong Copy Share Image
Relationships can go wrong very simply, very quickly, and when you have children you become more aware of relationships around you. — Sam Taylor-Wood Copy Share Image
Ever since I was a small child, I've had this feeling - it's in my nature, and so it's not even pretentious… — Charlotte Rampling Copy Share Image
“stealing things. I should preface this by saying I was an only child—a precocious one at that. I also said I was… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“I can never understand why people seem to think that growing up with unhappy parents is better than growing up with a… — Sarah Morgan Copy Share Image
We can teach children about natural consequences and cause and effect of their relationships which is really a mirror of what happens… — Shefali Tsabary Copy Share Image
Parents do not Preach all the time, they are showing you the trail. Hidden in the teachings given to them to learn… — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
Unstructured play gives kids the space they need to tinker and take risks - both vital for the budding entrepreneur. — Darell Hammond Copy Share Image
For decades, parents were told by so-called parenting 'experts' that offspring would be best raised on the belief each is special and… — Bob Barr Copy Share Image
On winter Sundays when I was a child, we waited for my father to return from his tennis game with bagels and… — Jane Leavy Copy Share Image
“When my relationship failed due to her secret affairs, I struggled with how my abandonment of the child would affect their future… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
