“Love is unconditional acceptance. It is love of parents for child; also the non-possessive love of partners; also the caring love between all people that enables forgiveness. It's above energy, though it may be expressed energetically. It's our essential nature: Spirit itself, the quality we share with God. And it is the binding force of the Universe, inherent in all that is.” PeopleMayChildrenSpiritSpiritualityUniverseEnergyForceParentLove IsQualityShareAcceptanceEssentialsCaringPartnersInherentUnconditionalBindingSpiritual AwarenessPossessiveParents LoveUnconditional AcceptancePossessive Love Author:Peter Shepherd
“It's very hard to describe to people sometimes the way I grew up, because it wasn't like my parents were irresponsible. They weren't necessarily reckless, but they were bringing all types of energy into the house, all kinds of people.” PeopleWayKindSometimesHardHouseEnergyParentGrewTypeGrew UpAll KindsRecklessIrresponsible Author:Courtney Love
“If responsibility for the upbringing of children is to continue to be vested in the family, then the rights of children will be secured only when parents are able to make a living for their families with so little difficulty that they may give their best thought and energy to the child's development and the problem of helping it adjust itself to the complexities of the modern environment.” IfsGivingMayChildrenLittlesHelpingProblemAbleEnergyParentResponsibilityPovertyEnvironmentRightsModernDevelopmentDifficultyComplexityUpbringingSecured Author:Suzanne La Follette
“My parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles were all funny, and I felt that energy, that delivery, that timing, that sarcasm. All that stuff seeped into my brain.” EnergyFeltStuffParentBrainSarcasmTimingUnclesGrandparentAuntDeliveryAunts And Uncles Author:Jeff Ross
“I talk to my kids about my mothers energy and how she would have loved them. I talk about how kind and polite my father was. So that they have some kind of remembrance that even though my parents died from their addictions and so that they know they were genuine in how they were.” KnowsKindKidsMotherFatherEnergyParentDiedAddictionGenuineRemembrancePolite Author:Lemon Andersen
“The mere existence of an additional child or children in the family could signify Less. Less time alone with parents. Less attention for hurts and disappointments. Less approval for accomplishments. . . . No wonder children struggle so fiercely to be first or best. No wonder they mobilize all their energy to have more or most. Or better still, all.” FirstsChildrenStillsEnergyParentHurtExistenceAttentionWonderStruggleMereDisappointmentAccomplishmentApprovalSiblingMe AloneRivalryAlone TimeSibling Rivalry Author:Adele Faber
“Parents' ability to survive a child's unabating needs, wants, and demands...varies enormously. Some people can give and give....Whether children are good or bad, brilliant or just about normal, enormously popular or born loners, they keep their cool and say just the right thing at all times...even when they are miserable themselves, inexhaustible springs of emotional energy, reserved just for children, keep flowing unabated.” PeopleWantNeedsGivingChildrenEnergyParentBornAbilityEmotionalDemandNormalSpringBrilliantAll TimeMiserableRight ThingVaryReservedLonerEmotional Energy Author:Stella Chess
“Parents find many different ways to work their way through the assertiveness of their two-year-olds, but seeing that assertiveness as positive energy being directed toward growth as a competent individual may open up some new possibilities.” WayYearsMayTwoDifferentIndividualEnergyParentGrowthSeeingPossibilityDifferent WaysTwo YearsCompetentPositive EnergyAssertivenessNew PossibilitiesTwo Year Olds Author:Fred Rogers
“To be a good parent, you need to take care of yourself so that you can have the physical and emotional energy to take care of your family.” NeedsCareEnergyParentEmotionalTake CareOur FamilyTake Care Of YourselfGood ParentEmotional Energy Author:Michelle Obama