Ability Quote by Michael Robotham

It's such a stress always trying to get bigger houses and larger cars and better schools. Of course, parents want to give their children…

— Shirley Henderson

It's such a stress always trying to get bigger houses and larger cars and better schools. Of course, parents want to give their children…

— Shirley Henderson

I say, when your hair turns gray and your children think they know who you are, do the thing that shakes up who you…

— Jane Smiley

“Human beings weren't designed to handle the amount of stress our modern life loads on us, which makes it difficult to hear our natural…

— Laura Markham

Children internalize their parents' unhappiness. Fortunately, they absorb our contentment just as readily.

— Lucille Ball

“Some children perceive their parents as inconsistently available. It could be because the parents are unavoidably focused on pressing life situations or on their…

— Leslie Becker-Phelps

Much as some of us fight it, our parents have a mystical hold over us, the power to affect our thoughts and emotions the…

— One Tree Hill

When you know your mom and dad are doing things that are not idyllic, as far as your desire to defer to a parental…

— Jason Bateman

“Sometimes it seems both our kids and our parents were smarter than we were. We fell somewhere between our parents' thirties idealism and our…

— Erica Jong

Before you have children, you mostly think about the world in terms of yourself. And when you become a parent, the focus shifts to…

— Joanne Harris

How can those of us who are parents help our children recognize their bliss?

— Bill Moyers

Working parents bring a certain amount of guilt to their relationship with their children.

— Judy Sheindlin