Birth Quote by M. S. Swaminathan

“parenting matters, even to the extent of influencing our inborn and genetically shaped temperament.”

— Daniel J. Siegel

Parents sometimes forget that after the child emerges from the utter physical and mental helplessness of infancy, it is becoming more and more an…

— Prentice Mulford

Helplessness in the face of a child's suffering is the curse of parenthood.

— Nancy Atherton

“Parenthood is the magnanimity of the soul, not the mere outcome of a biological process. (Dr Abin. From TATTERED LOTUS)”

— Dr. Abin

“To them it’s like deliberately causing the conception of a child who is so defective that it must die in infancy. ”

— Octavia E. Butler

“Instead of promoting healthy development, they unconsciously undermine it, often with the belief that they are acting in their child’s best interest.”

— Susan Forward

A baby is born with a need to be loved - and never outgrows it.

— Frank A. Clark

Children are born with pureness, and gradually become distracted with all the little pressures going on.

— Terence Trent D'Arby

The prize and punishments are incentives toward unnatural or forced effort, and, therefore we certainly cannot speak of the natural development of the child…

— Maria Montessori

“A genetic fundamentalism permeates public awareness these days. It may be summed up as the belief that almost every illness and every human trait…

— Gabor Maté

The guilt of newborns is immense.

— Georg Trakl

I see now that the circumstances of ones birth are irrelevent. it is what you do with the gift of life that determines who…

— Suzanne Collins