“To each his own. It's one of those things. How you build your familyyou have to know what you're capable of handling and how your children will relate to each other. Maybe if you have one child and that child has a lot of needs, you realize you cannot give more attention to another. Sometimes you just know as a parent. We felt we could handle more children, and we have a very happy, very full home.” IfsKnowsNeedsGivingChildrenSometimesHomeFeltParentRealizingAttentionCapableOur ChildrenHandleRelateOur FamilyYour ChildrenVery HappyNeed You Author:Angelina Jolie
“I call the years when our children are between six and twelve the "golden years," not because everything's perfect . . . but because the kids are capable and independent. . . . They're becoming fascinating human beings who continually astound us and make us laugh. And they build our self-esteem. They still adore us for the most part, not yet having reached that age of thinking everything we do is dumb, old-fashioned and irrelevant.” ThinkingYearsHumansChildrenStillsSelfKidsAgeHuman BeingsPerfectLaughingSelf EsteemBecomingSixCapableOur ChildrenIndependentEsteemGoldenDumbFascinatingTwelveAdoreIrrelevantOld FashionedGolden Years Author:Vicki Lansky
“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.” GivingFeelsChildrenSelfHelpingFeelingsKidsGrowsParentGrowing UpSelf EsteemCapableTasksOur ChildrenStructureBoundariesEsteemContributionHouseholdLovableLove Our Children Author:Jack Canfield
“A mother is willing and capable of doing anything for her children. You can justify it if you do something for your children, especially as a Mexican mother. I don't know about some other nationalities, but the Mexican mothers are like that. They will do anything for their children.” IfsKnowsChildrenMotherWillingCapableOur ChildrenYour ChildrenJustifyMexicanNationality Author:Salma Hayek
“There are forces working in the world as never before in the history of mankind for standardization, for the regimentation of us all, or what I like to call making muffins of us, muffins all like every other muffin in the muffin tin. This is the limited universe, the drying dissipating universe that we can help our children to avoid by providing them with ‘explosive material capable of stirring up fresh life endlessly'.” WorldChildrenHelpingUniverseForceMankindMaterialsCapableOur ChildrenProvidingStirringExplosivesTinMuffinsStandardizationRegimentation Book:A Wrinkle in Time: 50th Anniversary Commemorative Edition Source: A Wrinkle in Time: 50th Anniversary Commemorative Edition
“You don't need to be right all the time. Your child wants a man for a father, not a formula. He wants real parents, real people, capable of making mistakes without moping about it.” PeopleMenWantNeedsChildrenRealFatherParentMistakeCapableOur ChildrenYour ChildrenMaking MistakesFormulasFathers DayReal Parents Author:Derek Williams
“We want our children to become who they are- and a developed person is, above all, free. But freedom as we define it doesn't mean doing what you want. Freedom means the ability to make choices that are good for you. It is the power to choose to become what you are capable of becoming, to develop your unique potential by making choices that turn possibility into reality. It is the ability to make choices that actualize you. As often as not, maybe more often than not, this kind of freedom means doing what you do not want, doing what is uncomfortable or tiring or boring or annoying” WantKindMeanChildrenPersonsRealityTurnsChoicesParentAbilityPossibilityBecomingCapableUniqueOur ChildrenParentingBoringWhat You WantUncomfortableAnnoyingTireMaking ChoicesDoing What You Want Book:Homeschooling: A Family's Journey Source: Homeschooling: A Family's Journey
“Why don't we want our children to learn to do mathematics? Is it that we don't trust them, that we think it's too hard? We seem to feel that they are capable of making arguments and coming to their own conclusions about Napoleon. Why not about triangles?” ThinkingWantFeelsChildrenHardSeemsCapableArgumentOur ChildrenMathematicsMathConclusionWhy NotDon't TrustTriangles Author:Paul Lockhart
“The world will teach our children if we do not, and children are capable of learning all the world will teach them at a very young age. What we want them to know five years from now needs to be part of our conversation with them today. Teach them in every circumstance; let every dilemma, every consequence, every trial that they may face provide an opportunity to teach them how to hold on to gospel truths.” IfsKnowsWorldWantNeedsYearsMayChildrenAgeTodayFacesYoungOpportunityTeachFiveCircumstancesConversationCapableConsequenceOur ChildrenTrialsFive YearsYoung AgeDilemma Author:Rosemary M. Wixom