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“If we wish to unfold the mind in our children we do not leave them to their own uncultivated taste in all these things, but we try to help them to train that taste, whether it be in art, in music or in literature.”

Ifs Trying Mind Children Art Helping Literature Wish Taste Our Children Train

Book:Vegetarianism and Occultism

Source: Vegetarianism and Occultism

“Parents are led to believe that they must be consistent, that is, always respond to the same issue the same way. Consistency is good up to a point but your child also needs to understand context and subtlety . . . much of adult life is governed by context: what is appropriate in one setting is not appropriate in another; the way something is said may be more important than what is said. . . .”

Way Needs Believe May Children Said Important Life Is Parent Issues Adults Our Children Setting Settings Your Children Consistent Appropriate Consistency Subtlety

Author:Stanley Greenspan

“If your child is going to develop a healthy personality with the capacity to remain intact and grow, she must learn how to test reality, regulate her impulses, stabilize her moods, integrate her feelings and actions, focus her concentration and plan.”

Ifs Children Feelings Reality Action Grows Focus Plans Personality Healthy Capacity Tests Our Children Mood Impulse Your Children Concentration Integrating

Author:Stanley Greenspan

“Even if you find yourself in a heated exchange with your toddler, it is better for your child to feel the heat rather than for himto feel you withdraw emotionally.... Active and emotional involvement between parent and child helps the child make the limits a part of himself.”

Ifs Feels Children Helping Parent Emotional Limits Our Children Active Your Children Heat Finding Yourself Involvement Children And Parents Toddler

Author:Stanley Greenspan

“most of us carry into marriage not only our childlike illusions, but we bring to it as well the demand that it has to be wonderful, because it's supposed to be.”

Wells Marriage Wonderful Demand Illusion Our Children Supposed To Be Childlike

Author:Eda LeShan

“See to it, night and day, that you pray for your children. Then you will leave them a great legacy of answers to prayer, which will follow them all the days of their life. Then you may calmly and with a good conscience depart from them, even though you may not leave them a great deal of material wealth.”

May Children Night Wealth Prayer Answers Deals Materials Praying Conscience Our Children Legacy Your Children Answers To Prayer Material Wealth Praying For You

Author:Ole Hallesby

“Our children and grandchildren are not merely statistics towards which we can be indifferent.”

Children Our Children Statistics Indifferent Grandchildren Children And Grandchildren

Author:John F. Kennedy

“You send your child to the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys who educate him. You send him to the Latin class, but much of histuition comes, on his way to school, from the shop- windows.”

Way Children School Education Class Window Our Children Your Children Shops Latin Educate Shop Windows

Book:The Conduct of Life

Source: The Conduct of Life

“It may comfort you to know that if your child reaches the age of eleven or twelve and you have a good bond or relationship, no matter how dramatic adolescence becomes, you children will probably turn out all right and want some form of connection to you in adulthood.”

Ifs Knows Want May Children Matter Age Form Turns Comfort Connections Our Children Your Children Dramatic Twelve Adulthood Adolescence Eleven

Author:Charlotte Sophia Kasl

“One of the important things to learn about parenting is that the more you worry about a child, the less the child will worry abouthim- or herself....instead of worrying, watch with fascination and wonder as your child's life unfolds, and help the child take responsibility for his or her own life.”

Children Important Helping Responsibility Wonder Watches Worry Our Children Important Things Your Children Taking Responsibility Fascination

Author:Charlotte Sophia Kasl

“If I could summarize my suggestions to parents over the past twenty-five years it would be: worry less, criticize less, preach less, listen more, have more fun, be more honest with your own feelings, develop your own joys and friendships, and don't sweat the small stuff (which is nearly everything). The goal is not to be a perfect parent, because no such thing exists. The hope is to be a good enough parent so that your child leaves home a responsible adult who can take care of him or herself.”

“when we are young our parents run our life; when we get older, our children do.”

Children Running Young Parent Our Lives Generations Our Children

Book:I know what I'm worth

Source: I know what I'm worth

“In the last 10 years, children have been locked inside their rooms, glued to their PCs. ... But now with mobile technology, we can actually take our children outside into the natural world with their technology.”

World Years Children Has Beens Lasts Natural Rooms Technology Our Children Locked Mobile Natural World Mobile Technology

Author:Shilo Shiv Suleman

“I doubt that Congress would pass on the opportunity to make sure that our children were safe from terrorists.”

Children Opportunity Doubt Internet Safe Our Children Congress Terrorist Free Speech

Author:Louis J. Freeh

“Great cycles of history began with vigorous cultures awakening to the needs of children, but collapsing with frayed family ties. Have we failed to learn lessons which Ancient China, Greece and Rome learned too late - about day care and death houses for old folks? Do we without protest accept accelerating preschool and nursing home cultures which warn ominously that the earlier you institutionalize your child, the earlier he will institutionalize you!”

“A child needs both to be hugged and unhugged. The hug lets her know she is valuable. The unhug lets her know that she is viable. If you're always shoving your child away, they will cling to you for love. If you're always holding them closer, they will cling to you for fear.”

Ifs Knows Needs Children Our Children Parenting Valuable Your Children Hug

Book:Gently lead, or, How to teach your children about God while finding out for yourself

Source: Gently lead, or, How to teach your children about God while finding out for yourself

“Tell the truth. Say what is happening. Allow what is, and allow it to be known. Bring your children up in a home that is clean and clear and honest. There is no greater legacy you can give them.”

Giving Children Home Truth Known Clear Greater Honest Happenings Our Children Clean Legacy Your Children Telling The Truth

Book:The Tao of Motherhood

Source: The Tao of Motherhood

“Parenting is a negative thing. Keep your children from killing themselves, or anyone else, and hope for the best.”

Children Hope Wish Negative Our Children Killing Your Children Hoping For The Best

Author:Erma Bombeck

“We measure the success of schools not by the kinds of human beings they promote but by whatever increases in reading scores they chalk up. We have allowed quantitative standards, so central to the adult economic system, to become the principal yardstick for our definition of our children's worth.”

Humans Kind Children School Reading Human Beings Education Economic Standards Adults Increase Our Children Definitions Score Principal Economic Systems Chalk Yardsticks

Author:Kenneth Keniston

“One of the most difficult things to say to another person is, 'I hope that you will love me for no good reason.' But it is what we all want and rarely dare to say to one another, to our children, to our parents and mates, to our friends, and to strangers, especially to strangers who have neither good, nor bad reasons to love us.”

Want Children Persons Matter Reason Parent Difficult Our Children Dare Stranger Who We Are Mates Difficult Things

Author:Russell Banks

“Memorial Day should be a day for putting flowers on graves and planting trees. Also, for destroying the weapons of death that endanger us more than they protect us, that waste our resources and threaten our children and grandchildren.”

Should Children Tree Flower Protect Waste Weapons Resources Our Children Graves Destroying Grandchildren Memorial Memorial Day Children And Grandchildren

Book:Howard Zinn on War

Source: Howard Zinn on War

“You'll never be a perfect parent, but you can be a praying parent. Prayer is your highest privilege as a parent. ...Prayer turns ordinary parents into prophets who shape the destinies of their children, grandchildren, and every generation that follows. ...Your prayers for your children are the greatest legacy you can leave.”

Children Turns Parent Prayer Perfect Destiny Generations Praying Shapes Highest Ordinary Our Children Privilege Legacy Your Children Prophet Grandchildren Our Prayers Perfect Parents

Author:Mark Batterson

“We need to remember to teach our children that solitude can be a much-to-be-desired condition. Not only is it acceptable to be alone; at times it is positively to be wished for.....In the silence we listen to ourselves. Then we ask questions of ourselves. We describe ourselves to ourselves, and in the quietude we may even hear the voice of God.”

Needs May Children Remember Asks Voice Silence Teach Conditions Solitude Our Children Acceptable Positively Voice Of God

Author:Maya Angelou

“The meaning of self-esteem is to feel lovable and capable. As parents, we must love our children unconditionally and give them a sense of being nurtured. That's the lovable part. Then, we must provide structure - rules, boundaries, daily or weekly household tasks that give them a sense they are making a contribution. That's what helps kids grow up feeling capable.”

Giving Feels Children Self Helping Feelings Kids Grows Parent Growing Up Self Esteem Capable Tasks Our Children Structure Boundaries Esteem Contribution Household Lovable Love Our Children

Author:Jack Canfield

“It's not enough to celebrate the ideals that we're built on, liberty and justice and equality for all. Those just can't be words on paper, the work of every generation is to make those words mean something, concrete in the lives of our children. And we won't get there as long as kids in Baltimore or Ferguson or New York or Appalachia or the Mississippi delta or the Pine Ridge reservation believe that their lives are somehow worthless.”

“The best advice I can give to new parents is to realize immediately that your children will be unique individuals. Give them the space to be themselves and to develop their own personalities and characteristics.”

Giving Children I Can Individual Parent Realizing Space Advice Personality Unique Our Children Your Children Characteristics Best Advice New Parents Unique Individuals

Author:Donald Trump

“If we are to give our utmost effort and skill and enthusiasm, we must believe in ourselves, which means believing in our past and in our future, in our parents and in our children, in that particular blend of moral purpose and practical inventiveness which is the American character.”

Ifs Giving Believe Mean Children Character Past Purpose Parent Effort Moral Particular Skills Our Children Practicals Enthusiasm Our Future Our Past Inventiveness American Character

Author:Margaret Mead

“The solution is to change from the negative to the positive and one way to do that is to remember that failure is an event - it is not a person. Another way is to understand that your child might make a mistake, but the child is not a mistake”

Way Children Persons Might Remember Mistake Events Solutions Negative Our Children One Way Your Children Another Way

Author:Zig Ziglar

“No one can teach your child like you can. No nanny, Bible school teacher, aunt, or uncle has your authority. What a phenomenal privilege is yours.”

Children School Teach Teacher Like You Authority Our Children Privilege Your Children Uncles Aunt Phenomenal School Teachers Nannies Bible School

Book:Dad Time: Savoring the God-Given Moments of Fatherhood

Source: Dad Time: Savoring the God-Given Moments of Fatherhood

“As we try to change, we will discover within us a fierce struggle between our loyalty to that battle-scarred victim of his own childhood, our father, and the father we want to be. We must meet our childhood father at close range: get to know him, learn to forgive him, and somehow, go beyond him.”

Knows Want Trying Children Father Struggle Childhood Style Identity Battle Our Children Victim Forgiving Loyalty Range Fierce Our Father Learn To Forgive Parenting Styles

Author:Augustus Napier

“Parenting is a profoundly reciprocal process: we, the shapers of our children's lives, are also being shaped. As we struggle to beparents, we are forced to encounter ourselves; and if we are willing to look at what is happening between us and our children, we may learn how we came to be who we are.”

Ifs Looks May Children Process Struggle Identity Willing Happenings Our Children Encounters Who We Are Reciprocal

Author:Augustus Napier

“Not only do our wives need support, but our children need our deep involvement in their lives. If this period [the early years] ofprimitive needs and primitive caretaking passes without us, it is lost forever. We can be involved in other ways, but never again on this profoundly intimate level.”

Ifs Way Needs Years Children Lost Levels Support Forever Wife Involved Periods Our Children Intimate Primitive Fatherhood Involvement Caretaking

Author:Augustus Napier

“Treat your old parents as you would like to be treated by your children later.”

Children Parent Treats Our Children Treated Your Children

Author:Jose Rizal

“Teach by example and treat yourself the way you would want your children to treat themselves.”

Way Want Children Teach Example Treats Our Children Your Children Treat Yourself

Author:Ingrid Weir

“From the peak of Chimborazo (volcano) to the Pacific coast, from the Amazon rainforest to the Galapagos Islands, may you never lose the ability to thank God for what he has done and is doing for you, may you never lose the ability to protect what is small and simple, to care for your children and your elderly, to have confidence in the young, and to be constantly struck by the nobility of your people and the singular beauty of your country.”

“We cannot hope only to leave our children a bigger car, a bigger bank account. We must hope to give them a sense of what it means to be a loyal friend, a loving parent, a citizen who leaves his home, his neighborhood and town better than he found it.”

Giving Mean Children Home Found Parent Car Citizens Accounts Bigger Towns Our Children Neighborhood Loyal Bank Accounts Loyal Friend Loving Parents

Author:George H. W. Bush

“Is there someone who passively watches his children growing up? We constantly and maximally invest ourselves into our children to realize our vision of happiness. But not for us - for those children. It's not enough that we molest ourselves, so we have to molest the children as well.”

Wells Children Enough Happiness Realizing Vision Watches Growing Up Growing Our Children Children Growing Up Growing Children

Author:Ruben Papian

“If you're flying with your children, it's best to book them on the same flight and not on one where they have more legroom and are leaving at a different time. They could get there earlier than you, and that causes resentment. Two-year-olds can also never figure out those connecting flights. It just makes it harder, so travel as a family.”

Ifs Years Children Two Book Different Causes Figures Harder Our Children Leaving Flying Flight Your Children Two Years Resentment Connecting Different Times Two Year Olds

Author:Will Ferrell

“When you breast feed your child, that breast milk that nature starts us out on has almost the same percentage of polyunsaturated, monounsaturated and saturated fat as butter. So nature clearly wanted us to have a high fat diet.”

Children Wanted Nature Our Children Fats Your Children Diets Breasts Milk Percentages Saturated

Author:Suzanne Somers

“I don't want anybody to be confused that the issue of police and community is one part of a broader set of issues. Our children need to be properly educated. They need to be trained so that they can get jobs and be functional.”

Want Needs Children Jobs Community Issues Police Our Children Educated Confused

Author:Elijah Cummings

“Our children will work in energy tomorrow - they just won't work in fossil fuels, in the meantime, for social justice, economic justice and stability, we need ... negotiated, planned outcomes that people can touch at both the national and industry and enterprise level.”

People Needs Children Energy Social Justice Levels Economic Industry Tomorrow Our Children Social Justice Outcomes Fuel Enterprise Stability Fossils Fossil Fuel Economic Justice

Author:Sharan Burrow

“When we raise our children, we relive our childhood. Forgotten memories, painful and pleasurable, rise to the surface.... So each of us thinks, almost daily, of how our own childhood compares with our children's, and of what our children's future will hold.”

Thinking Children Memories Childhood Future Our Children Raises Rose Forgotten Painful Surface Compare

Book:Web of Life: Weaving the Values That Sustain Us

Source: Web of Life: Weaving the Values That Sustain Us

“When we leave our child in nursery school for the first time, it won't be just our child's feelings about separation that we will have to cope with, but our own feelings as well-from our present and from our past, parents are extra vulnerable to new tremors from old earthquakes.”

Firsts Wells Children Feelings School Past Parent First Time Our Children Separation Vulnerable Extras Our Past Earthquakes Nursery Nursery School

Author:Fred Rogers

“This is not to say that becoming a father automatically makes you a good father. Fatherhood, like marriage, is a constant struggle against your limitations and self-interests. But the urge to be a perfect father is there, because your child is a perfect gift.”

“I was over in Australia during Easter, which was really interesting. You know, they celebrate Easter the exact same way we do, commemorating the death and resurrection of Jesus by telling our children that a giant bunny rabbit left chocolate eggs in the night. Now I wonder why we're f-ked up as a race. I've read the Bible. I can't find the word "bunny" or "chocolate" anywhere in the f-king book.”

“Just be loving. You also have to recognize that you need to take the focus off yourself and put it on your children to give them a proper start in life.”

Needs Giving Children Focus Our Children Your Children Loving You

Author:Benjamin Bratt

“First and foremost, we need to be the adults we want our children to be. We should watch our own gossiping and anger. We should model the kindness we want to see.”

Want Needs Should Firsts Children Watches Kindness Models Adults Our Children

Author:Brené Brown

“If you don't want your children to know the truth about life don't send 'em to the theater to see Moms 'cause I'm gonna tell them THE TRUTH, hear?”

Ifs Knows Want Children Causes Mom Theater Our Children Your Children Ems Truth About Life

Author:Moms Mabley

“We do not have to get our children to learn; only to allow and encourage them in their learning. We do not have to dictate what they should learn; only to discern and respond to what it is that they are learning. Such responsiveness is at once the most educational and the most loving.”

Should Children Our Children Educational Responsiveness

Book:Whole child, whole parent

Source: Whole child, whole parent

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