“As a child I prayed that my calling be revealed - but not with expectation and not with a destination. I became an artist because I didn't know what to do and I thought it was really fun to make things.” KnowsChildrenArtistFunCallingExpectationsDestination Author:Kiki Smith
“The lessons you are meant to learn are in your work. To see them, you need only look at the work clearly - without judgment, without need or fear, without wishes or hopes. Without emotional expectations. Ask your work what it needs, not what you need. Then set aside your fears and listen, the way a good parent listens to a child” WayLifeInspirationalNeedsLooksChildrenBeautifulAsksWishParentEmotionalLessonsJudgmentExpectationsExperienceGood Parent Author:David Bayles
“Cultural expectations shade and color the images that parents-to-be form. The baby product ads, showing a woman serenely holding her child, looking blissfully and mysteriously contented, or the television parents, wisely and humorously solving problems, influence parents-to-be.” ChildrenProblemFormParentInfluenceTelevisionColorProductsBabyExpectationsMotherhoodShadeAdsProblem SolvingBeing A Parent Book:Between generations: the six stages of parenthood Source: Between generations: the six stages of parenthood
“We strive to teach our children the importance of being caring and compassionate to others. This outpouring of emotion and effort by our children was so gratifying, and what they achieved absolutely exceeded our wildest expectations.” ChildrenEffortEmotionTeachExpectationsImportanceOur ChildrenStriveCaringCompassionate Author:Jeff B. Davis
“I'd lost my family to my years of failing as a songwriter. All I had were bills, child support, and grief. And I was about to get fired. It looked like I'd trashed my act. But there was something liberating about it. By not having to live up to people's expectations, I was somehow free.” PeopleYearsChildrenLostGriefSupportFailingExpectationsMy FamilyBillsSongwritersLiberating Author:Kris Kristofferson
“Kenneth Burke calls form the satisfaction of an expectation; The Man Who Loved Children is full of such satisfactions, but it has a good deal of the deliberate disappointment of an expectation that is also form.” MenChildrenFormDealsHe ManExpectationsDisappointmentSatisfactionDeliberateKenneth Author:Randall Jarrell
“Department store Santas are apparently being trained to lower children's expectations about toys because of the recession. Yeah, it's weird when you ask Santa for a train set and he's like, 'Yeah, how 'bout a bus token?” ChildrenAsksExpectationsYeahTrainStoresDepartmentBusToysSantaRecessionsTokensDepartment Stores Author:Jimmy Fallon
“Making strides in areas unencumbered by hard-won expectation feels effervescent. By switching into child-mode, shuffling the cortex, we remember our innocence, when we knew less. These are the essentials of continued aesthetic discovery.” FeelsChildrenHardRememberEssentialsExpectationsDiscoveryAreasInnocenceAestheticStrideSwitchingShuffling Author:Sara Genn
“The most unacknowledged spending expectation among women is the amount of time spent by single mothers caring for children, not only physically, but psychologically. It is my feeling that only a small percentage of a mother's time is normally compensated for by child support, given what a woman could make adding these hours to workforce hours. It is why women who have never been married and never had children earn so much more in the workplace than women who have had children.” ChildrenFeelingsMotherGivenHoursSupportAmountMarriedExpectationsCaringSpendingWorkplacePercentagesWorkforceTime SpentSingle MotherChild Care Author:Warren Farrell