P Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with P. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Parents are told to turn off the TV and restrict video game time, but we hear little about what the kids should do physically during their non-electronic time. The usual suggestion is organized sports. But consider this: The obesity epidemic coincides with the greatest increase in organized children's sports in history.”
Source: Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder
“Parents are untamed, excessive, potentially troublesome creatures; charming to be with for a time, in the main they must lead their own lives, independent and self-employed, with companions of their own age and selection.”
“Parents are used to being made to feel guilty about...their contribution to the population problem, the school tax burden, and declining test scores. They expect to be blamed by teachers and psychologists, if not by police. And they will be blamed by the children themselves. It is hardy a wonder, then, that they withdraw into what used to be called "permissiveness" but is really neglect.”
“Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.”
“Parents are with their children almost constantly and can observe when they are ready to be instructed. From questions or behavior or because of experiences in their own lives, they can sense that it is time to teach. Parents must know when the time for the lesson is now, right now, for their children are ready for it.”
Source: Teach Ye Diligently
“Parents are your teachers until a certain point, and if they don't give you love, you'll go somewhere else to find it.”
“Parents aren't supposed to cry. Or get scared. Or lie. Right? I thought I knew all the rules. But there are no rules.”
Source: Two Summers
“Parents aren’t the people you come from. They’re the people you want to be, when you grow up.”
“Parents - be aware of the books your teens are reading, and the authors they follow. If an author manipulates their teen readers to attack another author through social media or Goodreads or other sites; that author is endorsing bullying and hate. An author who publishes for teens and children, no matter who publishes them, especially one who represents a big publisher, should be held to a higher standard of conduct. But parents should be aware of what books teens are reading, what they are teaching, and the author's standing in the community. - Kailin Gow, Parent Teacher Advisory Boardmember, PTA organizer and founder”
“Parents believe that their greatest responsibility is to provide....its not...it is to prepare!”
Source: Land's End Labyrinth
“Parents blame children for "bad" behavior but has nothing to do with the child but the actual parents.
A child is not born having fits, being difficult and temperamental.
They are sensitive energy "picking" beings and are teachers to parents to awaken them from their own shit.
Look deeper into them and find yourself.
A child is one of the hardest work on parents and the quicker you see the mirror the better interaction with yourself.
The more real you get with your own reflection, the more you see your inner shit and flaws.”
“Parents build the foundation of our lives, and we go through our life feeling this is the way things are suppose to me. For the most part there’s positives surrounding us, so we never take the time to think about the sacrifices our parents have made to get us on our feet. Once their gone, heaven awaits, and their together. We wonder in complete reflection how they accomplished so much! We look back grateful and, fulfilled. I’m one of four siblings, and us four are mom, and dads’ greatest achievements. Thank you, Mom and Dad, and thank you Jesus. Amen.”
“Parents can be very influential in designing those little creepy-crawlers that jump around in your mind for the rest of your life. It's the fear of not being good enough.”
“Parents can cultivate the character of a child, not the competence of a child.”
Source: Wealth of Words
“Parents can fail to cheer your successes as wildly as you expected, pointing out that you are sharing your Nobel Prize with a couple of other people, or that your Oscar was for supporting actress, not really for a starring role. More subtly, they can cheer your successes too wildly, forcing you into the awkward realization that your achievement of merely graduating or getting the promotion did not warrant the fireworks and brass band.”
“Parents can learn that parental authority doesn't depend on knowing everything. The more you pretend, the more risk that it'll be traumatic and damaging to the kids and their relationship with you when they find out the truth.”
“Parents can make us distrust ourselves. To them, we seem always to be works-in-progress.”
“Parents can offer their help by suggesting and locating resources likely to be unfamiliar to children, such as people, books, andmaterials that can be useful.”
“Parents can only advise their children or point them in the right direction. Ultimately people shape their own characters.”
Source: The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition
“Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.”
“Parents can plant magic in a child's mind through certain words spoken with some thrilling quality of voice, some uplift of the heart and spirit.”
“Parents can really help, but they can also really hinder the development of their youngsters.”
“Parents can ruin children, and sometimes that's a learned behavior. Sometimes you can't blame your parents for it, sometimes you can. I think to me, that's what the whole paradox is, is people that have children that don't even know how to raise them.”
“Parents can't indulge our fears. We're supposed to make our kids feel safe, even if we don't feel safe ourselves.”
“Parents cannot expect advice to have the same force upon their children as experience has upon themselves.”
“Parents create guilt. That is the greatest sin against humanity. To create guilt in a child is criminal because once the guilt is created, the child will never be free of it. Unless he is very intelligent it will be impossible for him to get rid of it; something of it will remain around him like a hangover.”
“Parents, deliberately or unaware, teach their children from birth how to behave, drink, feel and perceive. Liberation from these influences is no easy matter.”
Source: GAMES PEOPLE PLAY
“Parents deserve the peace of mind of knowing their children are in good hands. By investing in early childhood educators, we are supporting nurturing child care environments where children can thrive.”
“Parents die, and children go on living. It is statistically sound to say that this is the case for the majority of the population.
But sometimes children die before their parents.
Children die, and parents go on living. Those parents go on living because they do not have many options they either live or follow their children down to Hades.
Children die, and parents go on living. Those parents go on living because death, though a hard, hard thing, is not always the hardest thing. Both my children chose a hard thing. We are left with the hardest:to live after their deaths.”
Source: Things in Nature Merely Grow
“Parents die, daughters grow up and marry out, but sisters are for life. She is the only person left in the world who shares my memories of our childhood, our parents, our Shanghai, our struggles, our sorrows, and yes, even our moments of happiness and triumphant. My sister is the one person who truly knows me, as I know her. The last thing May says to me is "When our hair is white, we'll still have our sister love.”
Source: Shanghai Girls
“Parents die, daughters grow up and marry out, but sisters are for life.”
Source: Shanghai Girls and Dreams of Joy: Two Bestselling Novels
“Parents do not owe their progeny an inheritance no matter how much money they have. One of the surest ways to produce loafers and freeloaders is to let children know that their future is assured.”
Source: The Ann Landers Encyclopedia, A to Z: Improve Your Life Emotionally, Medically, Sexually, Socially, Spiritually
“Parents do not own their children. They have no ‘natural right’ to control their education fully.”
“Parents do not, indeed, live by bread alone. We feast daily on banquets of our own words.”
“Parents: Do you have babies and toddlers who are afflicted by terminal illness, rare and incurable diseases? When all is not well for them, read to them this beautiful, enjoyable and lively healing book breathed by the Holy Spirit of a Sovereign God for your little ones' healing: Dear Baby Be Healed From Terminal Illness: Cutting Through soul and spirit by Stellah Mupanduki ...You will forget that there is illness in your household because you will encounter the healing presence of the Holy Spirit touching you and your little one with sound healing. Smile...cheer up, all will be well for you.”
Source: Dear Baby Be Healed From Terminal Illness: Cutting through soul and spirit
“Parents don't become inaccessible to your Children, when they don't get the right information from you, they may get the wrong one from an outsider; you are their Caretaker..be wise!”
Source: The Best Option
“Parents, don’t invest in your child's teaching; invest in your child's learning.”
“Parents don't really know how to help. Some aren't prepared for this new version of their high-achieving kid: doubting, sad, tired, confused- emotions they may have rarely dealt with in high school. And isn't college supposed to be even better than high school? When your child is more mature, self-sufficient, and otherwise flourishing just as she always has been, except now at an even higher level?”
Source: What Made Maddy Run: The Secret Struggles and Tragic Death of an All-American Teen
“Parents don't come full bloom at the birth of the first baby. In fact parenting is about growing. It's about our own growing as much as it is about our children's growing and that kind of growing happens little by little.”
Source: Mr Rogers Parenting
“Parents don't get that, though. They don't understand about the fragility of teen friendships. They don't understand how easy it is for things to break apart, how someone you thought would be by your side forever can just disappear, or turn on you, or decide she likes someone more than she likes you. Parents always talk about romantic relationships being so ephemeral and fleeting in high school. What they don't get is that friendships can be the same way.”
Source: The Thing About the Truth
“Parents don't know their children at all. No one knows anyone, in fact.”
“Parents don't make mistakes because they don't care, but because they care so deeply.”
Source: TOUCHPOINTS THE ESSENTIAL REFERENCE
“Parents don't need government to raise their kids. That's their job. But government can help them protect their children from influences they may not want their kids exposed to”
“Parents don't particularly care whether it's early infantile autism or whatever label the clinicians have put on it. All they want is treatment, and they want what's best for their child, whatever that is. And when it comes to treatment, it may be that there's much more shared interventions that don't make any difference what label we're putting on it.”
“Parents don't realize that when they teach you about the Holocaust too early, it ruins you for life.”
Source: Sick in the Head: Conversations About Life and Comedy
“Parents don't understand kids and kids don't understand parents. My parents were divorced when I was really young and I went to live with my dad.”
“Parents don't want their children to lose that purity and innocence of childhood. We want to bottle that and hold onto that, but it's impossible.”
“Parents exist in children,' Grandmother said to bolster my confidence. 'Your mother will always exist in you. She will give you strength wherever you go.”
Source: The Island of Sea Women
“Parents existed to be used by their children.”
Source: The Night Ranger
“Parents expect only two things from their children, obedience in their childhood and respect in their adulthood.”
Source: Wealth of Words