Children Quote by Daniel A. Hughes

“All defensiveness stems from the need to be right and frustration over not being able to control others.”

— Bryant McGill

“The relationship between parent and child is the foundation of love upon which everything is built, and the rules you set are the walls…

— Andy Kerckhoff

“Chronic selfishness and parenting do not go together.   Bonded”

— Shannon Thomas

“There is a fine line between friendship and parenting, and when that line is crossed, the result is often disastrous. A parent who strives…

— R.A. Salvatore

“Family-centered parents do not have the emotional freedom, the power, to raise their children with their ultimate welfare truly in mind. If they derive…

— Stephen R. Covey

“Often, our misunderstandings about love are born in disruptive family relationships, where someone was either one-up or one-down to an extreme. There is an…

— Tim Clinton

When any relationship is characterized by difference, particularly a disparity in power, there remains a tendency to model it on the parent-child-relationship. Even protectiveness…

— Mary Catherine Bateson

“What's critical is that parents convey to their children that by allowing them more independence, you are not in any way pulling back on…

— Melissa Shultz

Many toxic parents compare one sibling unfavorably with another to make the target child feel that he's not doing enough to gain parental affection.…

— Susan Forward

“Parents can raise children who are responsible, self-disciplined, and cooperative without relying on the weapon of fear; they can learn how to influence children…

— Thomas Gordon

“It is important that parents know how to separate between their children’s behaviors and personalities. Any mixing in this matter is kind of neglecting…

— Maryam Abdullah Alnaymi

“The ideal parent is not anxiously hanging around trying to micromanage everything. The ideal parent makes it feel that problems, difficulties and dangers don’t…

— The School of Life