Children Quote by Maryam Abdullah Alnaymi

One of the premises of parenting might be that the job of parents is to teach their kids to get along without them.

— Timothy Carey

“Children who are neglected by their parents—despite their parents’ best intentions—grow up to feel insignificant, insecure, unloved and—more than anything else—angry. To make children…

— Shmuel Boteach

A concern with parenting...must direct attention beyond behavior. This is because parenting is not simply a set of behaviors, but participation in an interpersonal,…

— Nancy Chodorow

It is a parent's responsibility to preserve the connection with their children, to preserve the relationship, so that the children can let go and…

— Gordon Neufeld

That a good fit between parental handling and child temperament is vital to help children adapt to the imperatives of their society is a…

— Stella Chess

Once parents have a clear idea of their important parenting goals, beliefs, and values, they can then think about specific situations and identify the…

— Timothy Carey

It's important for survival that children have their own experiences, the kind they learn from. The kind their parents arrange for are not as…

— Garrison Keillor

Some fear that if parents startlistening to their own wants and needs they will neglect their children. It is our belief that children are…

— Wendy Coppedge Sanford

Parenting is about being competent and responsible. It's not about gender, necessarily.

— Dan Savage

Thousands of years of human history have shown that the ideal setting for children to grow up is with a mother and a father…

— Marco Rubio

“Children expect different things from each parent. Traditionally, the mother is expected to protect and defend the children, while the father is seen as…

— Susan Forward

When parents see their children's problems as opportunities to build the relationship instead of as negative, burdensome irritations, it totally changes the nature of…

— Stephen Covey