Attention Quote by Malcolm Forbes

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

— Daniel J. Siegel

The earliest instinct of the child, and the ripest experience of age, unite in affirming simplicity to be the truest and profoundest part for…

— Herman Melville

“At first parenthood was as I had expected, exhausting, sometimes heinous, and occasionally divine. I held my children close enough to feel them breathe,…

— Kelly Corrigan

Babies aren't really born of their parents. They are born of every kind word, loving gesture, hope, and dream their parents ever had.

— Julia Roberts

“exposure to a two-year-old boy was probably the best possible object lesson in the dangers of motherhood,”

— Diana Gabaldon

To think but nobly of my grandmother: Good wombs have borne bad sons.

— William Shakespeare

“We have counseled many couples that started their journey in parenting with high hopes and the best intentions to love and nurture their newborns,…

— Gary Ezzo

My day seemed bright and full of joy When I learned I would have a baby boy. No more days would I sleep in.…

— Marylou Devery

“Poor little babies are so afraid of pain that they spurn the myriad sweet wonders of life so that they might protect themselves from…

— Tom Robbins

I have never known a patient to portray his parents more negatively than he actually experienced them in childhood but always more positively--because idealization…

— Alice Miller

“The new-born infant cries, his early days are spent in crying. He is alternately petted and shaken by way of soothing him; sometimes he…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Parents don't come full bloom at the birth of the first baby. In fact parenting is about growing. It's about our own growing as…

— Fred Rogers