“Give people room to be what God created them to be, don't force them to fit into your own mold” — Bernard Kelvin Clive Copy Share Image
“The circumstances surrounding your birth is not as important as the opportunity to live life.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
“The best thing parents can do for their children is allow them to be who they were born to be.” — Nancy Arroyo Ruffin Copy Share Image
“Parent should never forget the great excitement they felt for the birth of a new born into the world.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
“The miracle of children is that we just don’t know how they will change or who they will become.” — Eileen Kennedy-Moore Copy Share Image
“Being a parent is like being a catcher. You gotta handle whatever is thrown your way.” — Tom Swyers Copy Share Image
“Kids, no matter how big your problems are – ask your parents for help and advice.” — Eraldo Banovac Copy Share Image
“All I ever wanted was to make my parents proud. What happens when I can't be proud of them?" --Shea Evenstar” — Maximilian Timm Copy Share Image
“She heard him speak, but did not recognise the problem in his voice – only later did she realise it was that… — Carla H Krueger Copy Share Image
“A dream is a seed. Vision plants it. Imagination nurtures growth. Opportunities create blooms. Thoughts become things!” — Donna McGoff Copy Share Image
“There are parents who use their small children as weapons. They are weak people. Sick people. And their children are watching them,… — Brenda Sutton Rose Copy Share Image
“The role of the parents is not to become the child, but to provide guidance to it, to walk it through the… — Lamine Pearlheart Copy Share Image
“I’d have given any- thing to know how Mom and Dad were, but you can’t ask your parents such questions. You have… — Beth Kephart Copy Share Image
“Let your child be the torch of truth and they shall shine over the entirety of the human society brightening even the… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“If I had received good instruction as a child I would be with my family today and at peace with my neighbors.… — Charles Portis Copy Share Image
“It was a soulless gaze, burning with a wild hatred that shouldn’t be there in anyone who could call themselves a parent.” — Jess C. Scott Copy Share Image
“Kids don’t act right. Sure it’s embarrassing when it happens but any reasonable person won’t fault a parent when a kid throws… — Aaron Blaylock Copy Share Image
“Maybe I am getting too grown to want to sleep with Mama. But like a baby, I still have this smallness to… — Connie Porter Copy Share Image
“But maybe it was only that Father was thinking that he must arrive in Memphis with the entire family household intact if… — Peter Taylor Copy Share Image
“You know, nothing is stronger than blood bonds. What else is the reason for the success of life insurance policies? Why bother… — Abhaidev Copy Share Image
“So now she was trying her best to make conversation, but a parent can't leave a child alone for so long and… — Anthony Breznican Copy Share Image
“Silver linings abound: I always knew I loved my son, but you certainly get a “perspective-check” when you go through a parting… — Rob Kozak Copy Share Image
“What an effort she made to change me, and when it was clear those surface alterations would never occur, she began to… — Pamela Terry Copy Share Image
“It felt strange to call them directly, to hear her father’s “Hello?” after the second ring, and when he heard her voice,… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
“In those years before mobile phones, email and Skype, travelers depended on the rudimentary communications system known as the postcard. Other methods--the… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“In retrospect, it seems obvious that my research about parenting was also a means to subdue my anxieties about becoming a parent…… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
“Start working on your child’s mind. Start building your child’s character. Raise your child as a human being, instead of raising boys… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“But she knew it would never happen. She had no intention of visiting him there. Even if she were open to the… — Jennifer E. Smith Copy Share Image
“I tried to go to sleep with my headphones still on, but then after a while my mom and dad came in,… — John Green Copy Share Image
“But have you noticed the slight curl at the end of Sam II's mouth, when he looks at you? It means that… — Donald Barthelme Copy Share Image
“[THE DAILY BREATH] Do you remember the first day of school, when your mom and dad gave you the new uniform, the… — Dragos Bratasanu Copy Share Image
“I think maybe, when I was very young, I witnessed a chaste cheek kiss between the two when it was impossible to… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
There is no home as comfortable as your father's arms and no bed as soft as your mother's lap. — Faraaz Kazi Copy Share Image
“The path of development is a journey of discovery that is clear only in retrospect, and it’s rarely a straight line.” — Eileen Kennedy-Moore Copy Share Image
“The more you don’t want to be like your parents, the more you will resemble them.” — Yong Kang Chan Copy Share Image