“Because love encompasses everything, nothing is unimportant, including tonight's dinner menu. Think about it for a minute. If you were pure love, the loving parent of all life, how would you want people to eat?” PeopleIfsThinkingWantParentMinutesPureIncludingDinnerTonightUnimportantPure LoveMenusLoving Parents Book:Love Yourself Thin: The Revolutionary Spiritual Approach to Weight Loss Source: Love Yourself Thin: The Revolutionary Spiritual Approach to Weight Loss
“Above this race of men stands an immense and tutelary power, which takes upon itself alone to secure their gratifications, and to watch over their fate. That power is absolute, minute, regular, provident, and mild. It would be like the authority of a parent, if, like that authority, its object was to prepare them for manhood; but it seeks, on the contrary, to keep them in perpetual childhood.” IfsMenWould BeParentRaceWatchesPowerFateChildhoodMinutesObjectsAuthorityAbsolutesContraryOppressionSecurePerpetualImmenseManhoodGratification Book:Democracy in America Source: Democracy in America
“When I was a boy, I choked on a piece of candy outside the kitchen window for a few minutes while watching my parents making dinner. I thought I was going to die, but I didn't want to scare them. Our existence was so separate, a dying and a doing well, an outside and an inside. Trey Moody's poems hover in that cold, wet, refrigerator-lit place between the dying and the doing well, the outside and the inside. His poems are the thoughts of the person you love who is always standing behind you, slowly and silently suffocating. But they're not afraid to say hello, and please, and I'm scared.” WantWellsPersonsDiesParentBehindsExistenceBoysPiecesMinutesDyingColdPleaseStandingWindowScaredDinnerKitchenScareNot AfraidWetHelloCandyLitBehind YouRefrigeratorsMoodySuffocating Author:Zachary Schomburg
“Thomas Gordon, founder of P.E.T. (Parent Effectiveness Training), observed that when children are behaving in a way that interferes with your ability to meet your needs, shouting direct orders to them doesn't work very well. So, he advised sending I messages. That is, a better alternative to, Your room is a disaster area-clean it up this minute, would be something like, I get embarrassed when Mrs. Johnson is visiting and sees your room looking this messy, so I need you to clean it up.” WayNeedsWellsChildrenWould BeOrderParentAbilityRoomsMinutesMessagesTrainingAreasDirectCleanDisasterAlternativesHuman ConditionFoundersInterfereEmbarrassedNeed YouEffectivenessJohnsonMessyVisitingShoutingI Need YouYour Room Author:Ben Yagoda
“My parents split when I was 13. For a youngster, it's quite devastating. One minute you're all happy families, then everything changes.” ParentMinutesSplitsThings ChangeYoungstersOne MinuteHappy Family Author:Vinnie Jones
“All parents believe their children can do the impossible. They thought it the minute we were born, and no matter how hard we've tried to prove them wrong, they all think it about us now. And the really annoying thing is, they're probably right.” ThinkingBelieveChildrenMatterHardParentCan DoBornImpossibleMinutesProveAnnoyingProve Them WrongAnnoying Things Author:Cathy Guisewite
“The minute you become a parent, you're always going to wonder if you're doing something wrong, and I certainly experience that on a daily basis. It's a big challenge, and you can't help wondering if you're doing anything wrong. You have to trust your instincts and do what feels right for you.” IfsFeelsHelpingBigsParentChallengesWonderMinutesBasesInstinctFeels RightTrust Your InstinctsBig Challenges Author:Emily Deschanel
“I cannot control what you bring into the theater when you see the film. I can't control what my parents bring in. I can't control what some random person on Twitter brings in to the theater. All I can control is the hour and 50 minutes that the movie lasts, and try to give it absolutely everything I can.” GivingTryingPersonsI CanLastsFilmParentHoursMinutesTheater Author:James Ponsoldt
“You can't write a children's book that takes more than five or six minutes to read, because it will drive the parents batty. It has to be compact. Nobody thinks about the parents when they write these stupid books. I could write longer children's books, but it would actually be bad if I did.” IfsThinkingWritingChildrenBookParentFiveMinutesStupidSixChildren's BooksCompact Author:Michael Ian Black
“From the perspective of someone with two grown and wonderful kids, that your instincts as parents are correct: a minute spent reading to your kids now will repay itself a million-fold later, not only because they love you for reading to them, but also because, years later, when they’re gone and miles away, those quiet evenings, when you were tucked in with them, everything quiet but the sound of the page-turns, will, seem to you, I promise...... sacred.” YearsTwoSeemsKidsTurnsReadingParentSoundMillionsGoneWonderfulMinutesLove YouPerspectivePromiseQuietPagesSacredInstinctMilesEveningFoldsI PromiseMiles Away Author:George Saunders
“Spouses should spend at least one full hour each day talking together about subjects that have nothing to do with their work or business. Children need at least ten minutes of face-to-face contact with their parents each day.” NeedsShouldChildrenTogetherFacesParentHoursTalkingMinutesSubjectsTenContactEach DaySpouseFace To Face Author:Brian Tracy
“Home, the idea of home, is my principal purpose. If people have bought a house as an investment or chosen the furniture because they'll be able to sell it for more, you can tell in two minutes. You know, our parents didn't buy a house as an investment. They bought it as a place to bring you up, to give you roots.” PeopleIfsKnowsGivingTwoIdeasHomeAblePurposeHouseParentMinutesRootsSellsInvestmentChosenPrincipalFurniture Author:Sister Parish
“The minute I landed back in Alaska, it was back to hip boots and fish guts. This cultural flipping wasn't easy - especially on top of the post-divorce fighting that was still going on between my parents. But this is why you don't write a memoir at age fourteen.” WritingStillsAgeFightingEasyParentMinutesFishesDivorceMemoirHipsPostsGutsBootsAlaskaFourteen Author:Leigh Newman