“I've loved fairytales, folklore and mythology since I was a small child, and I think it was inevitable that they would influence my style and my development of stories.” ThinkingChildrenStoriesInfluenceStyleDevelopmentMythologyInevitableFairytaleFolkloreSmall Child Author:Juliet Marillier
“I, talking about my children, of course I wanted them to succeed in life, they have to choose whatever job or occupation that they want, I will not try to influence.” WantTryingChildrenWantedJobsCoursesTalkingInfluenceSucceedMy ChildrenOccupation Author:Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
“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
“Every sentence has its drumbeat. rhythm is one of the most powerful dimensions of language: it separates tribes, united families, soothes children, and shocks us into new awarenesses. Every good writer, marching to his or her own drumbeat, marks out a vibrational field as home territory. The cadences of our sentences carry echos of ancestry and influence as surely as the double helix that orchstrates the life of the body.” WritingChildrenHomeBodyLanguageUnitedPowerfulInfluenceAwarenessFieldsMarkVery GoodSentencesRhythmDimensionsShockMost PowerfulSongwritingTerritoryTribesAncestryGood WritersCadenceUnited Family Author:Marilyn Chandler McEntyre
“Influencing people is dangerous. Their acts and thoughts become your illegitimate children. You can't get away from them and Heaven knows what they mayn't grow up into.” PeopleKnowsChildrenHeavenGrowsGrowing UpInfluenceDangerousGet AwayInfluencing PeopleIllegitimate Child Author:Elizabeth Bibesco
“If I had influence with the good fairy... I should ask that her gift to each child in the world be a sense of wonder so indestructible that it would last throughout life.” IfsWorldShouldChildrenLastsAsksImaginationWonderCreativityInfluenceFairyAweSense Of WonderIndestructibleSilent SpringDisenchantmentAwe And WonderWonder Of The WorldWonder Of LifeWonder And MysteryChristening Book:The Sense of Wonder Source: The Sense of Wonder
“I've had my moments of insanity. But there is a certain responsibility to set proper examples for your children, and that influences your choices in every aspect of your life.” ChildrenMomentsCertainChoicesResponsibilityInfluenceExampleAspectInsanityYour Children Author:Andy Garcia
“It's the biggest economic influence in a woman's life whether she can decide when and whether to have children or not.” ChildrenInfluenceEconomic Author:Gloria Steinem
“Many [hooligans] discover to their shame that they have scruples; they have roots and, greatest disadvantage of all, they have hope. The fathers superior of the order do not try to influence their children in Satan; they merely shake their heads in sorrow. They know that the apostate must work out his own damnation.” KnowsTryingChildrenOrderFatherInfluenceSorrowRootsShameWork OutSuperiorsSatanShakesDisadvantagesHaving HopeDamnationScruples Author:Quentin Crisp
“Think about one of the most powerful influences on a young child's life - the absence of a father figure. Look back on recent presidents, and you'll find an absent, or weak, or failed father in the lives of Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama.” ThinkingLooksChildrenYoungFatherPresidentPowerfulInfluenceFiguresWeakBillsClintonAbsenceBarackMost PowerfulAbsentJohnsonYoung ChildrenFather Figure Author:Jeff Greenfield
“One has very little influence upon one's children. Their characters are what they are and one can do nothing to change them.” ChildrenLittlesCharacterCan DoInfluence Author:Andre Maurois
“Visitation reflects the era of the absentee father; parent time influences the re-emergence of the involved father. Visitation reflects the destruction of the family; parent time influences the reconstruction of the family. Parent time influences an era that understands that as either parent loses, so lose the children.” ChildrenFatherParentLosesInfluenceInvolvedDestructionErasEmergenceReconstructionVisitation Author:Warren Farrell
“You don't know the things in your childhood that influence you. You can't possibly know them. People today try to analyze the early environment and the reasons for something that happened, but if you look at children of the same family -- children who have identical parents, go to identical schools, have an almost identical upbringing, and yet who have totally different experiences and neuroses -- you realize that what influences the children is not so much the obvious externals as their emotional experiences. Of course any psychiatrist knows that.” PeopleIfsKnowsTryingLooksChildrenDifferentReasonTodaySchoolCoursesParentRealizingEnvironmentHappenedInfluenceChildhoodEmotionalObviousYour ChildrenIdenticalPsychiatristUpbringingNeurosisDifferent Experiences Author:Louis Auchincloss