Brothers and sisters Quote by Peggy Johnson

“My apartment doesn’t have these same sounds; instead, my sounds are a cat pawing through her food bowl, the front door being locked, the…

— Scaachi Koul

My mother treats me exactly the same as she has always done, and the same as my older sisters. She tells me off when…

— Georgie Henley

I was very lucky to have been brought up in a household where my older brother and my father read out loud to me…

— Michael Rosen

We're living in a time when parenting is not at all mirroring the way I was parented. For me, I just followed my parents…

— Edie Falco

I have to keep reminding myself that I am their mother. Sometimes we are sitting at home and I feel like we are waiting…

— Ruby Wax

We want to gently remind people that we don't have forever. In my work, I hear parents complain all the time that their children…

— Leo Buscaglia

One time my mom tried to send me to my room for a time-out when I was 5 or 6, and I was like,…

— Elizabeth Olsen

“Ultimately we want the children to catch their growing intensity themselves, to rely on their inner control rather than our control. By giving them…

— Mary Sheedy Kurcinka

Mother always said that even when I was 3, I used to get the 6- and 7-year-old kids on the block and punch them…

— Shirley Chisholm

“Every parent loathes the bedtime routine. Actually, there are probably some parents who love the bedtime routine, but I've never met any and they…

— Amber Dusick

When you say 'Bedtime, bedtime, bedtime!' that's not what the child hears. What the child hears is 'Lie down in the dark... for hours...…

— Dylan Moran