A mother who is really a mother is never free.
The relation between parents and children is essentially based on teaching.
Success for me its to raise happy, healthy human beings.
I wasn’t very good about juggling family and my career. I was interested in who was coming to the children’s birthday party, what my son was writing. I was thinking about Legos.
Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.
The Internet is just bringing all kinds of information into the home. There’s just a lot of distraction, a lot of competition for the parent’s voice to resonate in the children’s ears.
We’ve had bad luck with our kids – they’ve all grown up.
If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed.
My mother was the influence in my life. She was strong; she had great faith in the ultimate triumph of justice and hard work. She believed passionately in education.
No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly.
Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to be wise… specialized competence and success are all that they can imagine.
Every word, facial expression, gesture, or action on the part of a parent gives the child some message about self-worth. It is sad that so many parents don’t realize what messages they are sending.
Studies show that children best flourish when one mom and one dad are there to raise them.
It is a sad commentary of our times when our young must seek advice and counsel from ‘Dear Abby’ instead of going to Mom and Dad.
Few things are more satisfying than seeing your children have teenagers of their own.
It’s hard enough to work and raise a family when your kids are all healthy and relatively normal, but when you add on some kind of disability or disease, it can just be such a burden.
Mothers – especially single mothers – are heroic in their efforts to raise our nation’s children, but men must also take responsibility for their children and recognize the impact they have on their families’ well-being.
Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.
Dad was a strict disciplinarian and would give us a wallop with a wooden spoon if we were out of order. But we really respected him – he didn’t try to be our best friend.
I had no idea that mothering my own child would be so healing to my own sadness from my childhood.
Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.
You have to support your children to have a healthy relationship.
I get whatever placidity I have from my father. But my mother taught me how to take it on the chin.
The more people have studied different methods of bringing up children the more they have come to the conclusion that what good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is the best after all.
I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home.
