P Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with P. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Parental care, satisfaction, friendship, compassion, and grief didn’t just suddenly appear with the emergence of modern humans. All began their journey in pre-human beings. Our brain’s provenance is inseparable from other species’ brains in the long cauldron of living time. And thus, so is our mind.”
Source: Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel
“Parental concern for weight and weight teasing within the family predict Eating Disorder symptoms over a 5 year follow up. These factors may be coupled with the modeling of eating disturbances by family members, which reinforce the thin ideal and subsequent body dissatisfaction.”
Source: A Guide to the Psychology of Eating
“Parental Discretion is advised, but will be completely f*n, ignored”
“Parental investment theory predicts that, on average, the sex that invests more in its offspring, including the size of gametes, gestation, lactation and child rearing, will be more selective when choosing a mate, and the less-investing sex will engage in more intra-sexual competition for access to mates.”
Source: Evolutionary Psychiatry: Current Perspectives on Evolution and Mental Health
“Parental love is not contingent on the talents and attributes the child happens to have. We choose our friends and spouses at least partly on the basis of qualities we find attractive. But we do not choose our children. Their qualities are unpredictable, and even the most conscientious parents cannot be held wholly responsible for the kind of child they have. That is why parenthood, more than other human relationships, teaches what the theologian William F. May calls an “openness to the unbidden.”
“Parental love is unconditional, and so is God's love. No matter what a child of God has done against Him, or feels he or she has done that cannot be forgiven, God still loves that wondering soul.”
“Parental neglect even in intact families, can have a shattering effect on how daughters- even those with loving mothers- feel about men.”
Source: Women and Their Fathers: The Sexual and Romantic Impact of the First Man in Your Life
“Parental trust is extremely important in the guidance of adolescent children as they get further and further away from the direct supervision of their parents and teachers. I don't mean that trust without clear guidance is enough, but guidance without trust is worthless.”
Source: Raising Children in a Difficult Time
“Parenthood abruptly catapults us into a permanent relationship with a stranger, and the more alien the stranger, the stronger the whiff of negativity. We depend on the guarantee in our children's faces that we will not die. Children whose defining quality annihilates that fantasy of immortality are a particular insult; we must love them for themselves, and not for the best of ourselves in them, and that is a great deal harder to do. Loving our own children is an exercise for the imagination.”
Source: Far From the Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity
“Parenthood abruptly catapults us into a permanent relationship with a stranger.”
Source: Far From the Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity
“Parenthood always comes as a shock. Postpartum blues? Postpartum panic is more like it. We set out to have a baby; what we get is a total take-over of our lives.”
Source: Whole child, whole parent
“Parenthood always involves recognizing your child as separate and different from you.”
“Parenthood and family come first for me, and when I'm not working I'm cool with the Teletubbies.”
“Parenthood brings profound pleasure and satisfactions--the unparalleled pleasure of caring so intensely for another human being, of watching growth, of reliving childhood, of seeing oneself in a new perspective, and of understanding more about life.”
Source: The Six Stages of Parenthood
“Parenthood changes your outlook on life. Makes you realize what things are important. The responsibility is huge. Just to have that responsibility in your hands is a little frightening, but it's exciting at the same time.”
“Parenthood doesn’t improve one’s character, it exposes it.”
Source: Cheer
“Parenthood has been the beneficiary of wonderful performances by child actors.”
“Parenthood has the power to redefine every aspect of life - marriage, work, relationships with family and friends. Those helpless bundles of power and promise that come into our world show us our true selves- who we are, who we are not, who we wish we could be.”
Source: It Takes a Village
“Parenthood involves massive sacrifice: money, attention, time and emotional energy.”
“Parenthood is a high calling. It’s our first mission field and our first place for discipleship. I think that it is one of the toughest places to make disciples. God loves family, and his heart is that parents disciple and raise their children.”
Source: Parenting with Courage: Shaping Lives, Leaving a Legacy
“Parenthood is a lesson on its own. But the best, lessons in parenthood are from our children. Let's cherish them, appreciate them, and recognise their special roles in our lives.”
“Parenthood is a lesson on its own. But the best lessons in parenting are from our children. Let's cherish them, appreciate them, and recognise their special roles in our lives. Let's love our children purely. Let's protect their innocence and develop them into being individuals who are self-assured.”
“Parenthood is a school for humility. We can't choose the precise traits of our children, and that is morally important. It teaches us what William May, a theologian whom I greatly admire, calls "an openness to the unbidden."”
“Parenthood is an amazing opportunity to be able to ruin someone from scratch.”
“Parenthood is an endless series of small events, periodic conflicts, and sudden crises which call for a response. The response is not without consequence: it affects personality for better or for worse.”
“Parenthood is demanded of us, but we are asked to parent in isolated bubbles, supported--to put it crudely--by our bank accounts and little else.”
Source: Without Children: The Long History of Not Being a Mother
“PARENTHOOD is journey of being driven to the BRINK of INSANITY and BACK...Like a YO YO!!”
Source: Stripping Away the Insanity of Life & Parenthood!
“Parenthood is not an object of appetite or even desire. It is an object of will. There is no appetite for parenthood; there is only a purpose or intention of parenthood.”
“Parenthood is nothing but doubts.”
“Parenthood is some people’s subconscious revenge for having been brought into existence without their consent.”
“Parenthood is such a lesson in self-sacrifice.”
“Parenthood is the opiate of the masses.”
Source: Choke: A Novel
“Parenthood is the passing of a baton, followed by a lifelong disagreement as to who dropped it.”
“Parenthood means becoming comfortable with the fact that there are things outside your control, things that end and fail, just as most utopias end and by some measure fail. And just because they're a failure doesn't mean there isn't value there.”
“Parenthood offers many lessons in patience and sacrifice. But ultimately, it is a lesson in humility. The very best thing about your life is a short stage in someone else’s story.”
“Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.”
Source: future shock
“Parenthood, like death, is an event for which it is nearly impossible to be prepared. It brings you into a new relationship with the fact of your own existence, a relationship in which one may be rendered helpless.”
“Parenthood...It's about guiding the next generation, and forgiving the last.”
“Parentified children learn to take responsibility for themselves and others early on. They tend to fade into the woodwork and let others take center stage. This extends into adulthood - adult children may put others' needs before their own. They may have difficulty accepting care and attention.”
Source: Surviving a Borderline Parent: How to Heal Your Childhood Wounds and Build Trust, Boundaries, and Self-Esteem
“Parenting @ a higher level of consciousness:1st love self so deeply that when ur child misbehaves U do not have 2 react @LoveNever_Fails
When you give a little of yourself to a child, you give a little of yourself to their future!”
“Parenting can be established as a time-share job, but mothers are less good "switching off" their parent identity and turning to something else. Many women envy the father's ability to set clear boundaries between home and work, between being an on-duty and an off-duty parent.... Women work very hard to maintain a closeness to their child. Father's value intimacy with a child, but often do not know how to work to maintain it.”
“Parenting cannot just be one size fits all.”
“Parenting changed for me when I finally realized it's not about being a perfect parent trying to raise perfect kids, but rather, family life is a collection of sinners slowly growing together toward Jesus Christ as we rub shoulders, yield to his grace, ask for forgiveness and offer forgiveness, and are shaped accordingly.”
“Parenting changes your life, it changes how you hear yourself in relationship to others - which is part of the reason that a bunch of people in the rock community are sick of the goodwill and positive energy and love between these 45-year-old musicians who they preferred when they were 25 and taking stabs at each other.”
“Parenting classes should be mandatory, whether you are adopting or not, and would include an evaluation of your current physical, mental and financial state as well as how ready you are to take on the rigors of parenthood. Our children are our most precious natural resource, and there is absolutely no other way to parent but to put them first.”
“Parenting forces us to get to know ourselves better than we ever might have imagined we could--and in many new ways. . . . We'll discover talents we never dreamed we had and fervently wish for others at moments we feel we desperately need them. As time goes on, we'll probably discover that we have more to give and can give more than we ever imagined. But we'll also find that there are limits to our giving, and that may be hard for us to accept.”
“Parenting has nothing to do with perfection. Perfection isn't even the goal. Not for ourselves or for our children. Learning together to live well in an imperfect world, loving each other despite or even because of our own imperfections, and growing as humans while we grow our little humans, those are the goals. So don't ask yourself at the end of the day if you did everything right. Ask yourself what you learned and how well you loved, then grow from your answer. That is perfectly imperfect parenting.”
“Parenting is a constant struggle between making your kids life better and ruining your own.”
“Parenting is a giant responsibility forever, so we need to learn how to drop the guilt and go easy on ourselves when we mess up.”
“Parenting is a gift for adults’ spiritual growth spurts, and it’s a challenge to think of anything else that fills a home with more laughter!”
Source: Conscious Parenting: The Holistic Guide to Raising and Nourishing Healthy, Happy Children