The goal in raising one's child is to enable him, first, to discover who he wants to be, and then to become… — Bruno Bettelheim Copy Share Image
“When we focus narrowly on what we should be doing, we become blind to our attachment relationship with our children and its… — Gabor Maté Copy Share Image
Parents, do you wish to see your children happy? Take care, then, that you train them to obey when they are spoken… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
Teaching my kids to give back is an essential part of parenting. It's not something that's optional. Compassion is one of the… — Kate Snow Copy Share Image
In order to develop normally, a child requires progressively more complex joint activity with one or more adults who have an irrational… — Urie Bronfenbrenner Copy Share Image
It's not difficult to take care of a child; it's difficult to do anything else while taking care of a child. Trying… — Julianne Moore Copy Share Image
Parents are the biggest culprit. In a bid to make their child score high marks, they are willing to indulge in practices… — Arvind Gupta Copy Share Image
As a parent, the goal is not to get to the other end. It's just simply to protect the children that you're… — Martha Williamson Copy Share Image
When I was a child, the FA Cup was one of the crown jewels of the sporting year, along with the Grand… — Gary Neville Copy Share Image
Conscious parenting is a new paradign shift in the way we look at our roles as parents. It's turning the spot light… — Shefali Tsabary Copy Share Image
“For there comes a time in life when the pity previously reserved only for children takes on a different form, a time… — Irène Némirovsky Copy Share Image
“Dads. It’s time to show our sons how to properly treat a woman. It’s time to show our daughters how a girl… — Dan Pearce Copy Share Image
“It is a central paradox of contemporary parenting, in fact: we have an acute, almost biological impulse to provide for our children,… — Paul Tough Copy Share Image
I think people should be given a test much like driver's tests as to whether they're capable of being parents! It's an… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
The art of not experiencing feelings. A child can experience her feelings only when there is somebody there who accepts her fully,… — Alice Miller Copy Share Image
How can one explain all the time and thought that goes into raising a child, all the opportunities for mistakes, all the… — Mary Blakely Copy Share Image
“Most parents are not really ‘supportive’ because they want their kid(s) to succeed; they ‘support’ their kid(s) as an attempt to avoid… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“Decoding (a child's difficult) behavior is like looking at a rain wrapped tornado crossing the road in front of you. You see… — Deborah A. Beasley Copy Share Image
“Grownups can deal with scraped knees, dropped ice-cream cones, and lost dollies, but if they suspected the real reasons we cry they… — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
According to my mother, there pretty much wasn't anything I wouldn't eat as a child. Not just try, but eat. I was… — Alice Dreger Copy Share Image
Having children changes everything; it changes your entire perspective about life since from the moment they arrive your new world begins and… — Tess Daly Copy Share Image
I go back to family: 'Ice Age' was about disparate characters rejected by their own kind. They come together to save the… — Chris Meledandri Copy Share Image
“Do not make your child your only hobby or you will end up waiting by the telephone in a cheery room covered… — Christie Mellor Copy Share Image
To be the child of immigrants from Eastern Europe is in itself a special kind of experience; and an important one to… — Delmore Schwartz Copy Share Image
Children are all more or less little monkeys in that they imitate everything they see. If their mother treats them exactly as… — Emily Post Copy Share Image
Adults get more confused by social worker jargon. Unlike children, they are also less likely to see two sides of an argument,… — Nina Bawden Copy Share Image
And nothing inspires as much shame as being a parent. Children confront us with our paradoxes and hypocrisies, and we are exposed.… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
When people see Barack Obama, they don't necessarily see an African-American president. They see someone who is a child of immigrants. They… — Grace Meng Copy Share Image
“Parents, your kids will thank you in the future for helping them cultivate their creative talents. It's important that you allow them… — Robin S. Baker Copy Share Image
You have to be grateful to existence that it has chosen you to be a passage for a few beautiful children. But… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
No one can survive childhood without being wounded. Everyone remembers at least one time when their parents rejected them, pushed them away,… — Banana Yoshimoto Copy Share Image
All around me, I saw people who were taught by their parents, as I was, to just toe the line, not ruffle… — Simu Liu Copy Share Image
'Pastoralia' by George Saunders. Possibly my favorite book. It's one of the weirdest books I've ever read. If Monty Python and Thomas… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
Innately, children seem to have little true realistic anxiety. They will run along the brink of water, climb on the window sill,… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
I know a lot of people fear the rougher types who might be at a state school, but surely it is better… — Arabella Weir Copy Share Image
“I am far from a perfect dad. And I always will be. But I’m a damn good dad, and my son will… — Dan Pearce Copy Share Image
“You can't spell "parentry" without "try." Of course, you'll make a few mistakes. The important thing is that the mistakes you make… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
“The neighborhood stores are an important part of a city child's life. They are his contact with the supplies that keep life… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
'Master Harold' is about me as a little boy, and my father, who was an alcoholic. There's a thread running down the… — Athol Fugard Copy Share Image
“She has that voraciousness about children. She swoops in on them. Even I, in public was a beloved child. She'd parade me… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
