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“Protestant parents still keep a Bible handy in the house, so that the children can study it, and one of the first things the little boys and girls learn is to be righteous and holy and not piss against the wall. They study those passages more than they study any others, except those which incite to masturbation. Those they hunt out and study in private.”

Source: The Bible According to Mark Twain: Writings on Heaven, Eden, and the Flood

“A name with meaning could bring up a child, Taking the child out of the parents' hands. Better a meaningless name, I should say, As leaving more to nature and happy chance. Name children some names and see what you do.”

Should Children Hands Names Parent Chance Leaving Meaningless Disposition

Book:Frost: Poems

Source: Frost: Poems

“When God wants to speak and deal with us, he does not avail himself of an angel but of parents, or the pastor, or of our neighbor.”

Want Doe Past Speak Parent Deals History Angel Neighbor Pastor

Book:Works

Source: Works

“When we consider how much climate contributes to the happiness of our condition, by the fine sensation it excites, and the productions it is the parent of, we have reason to value highly the accident of birth in such a one as that of Virginia.”

Reason Values Parent Conditions Fine Birth Climate Productions Accidents Sensations Virginia

Book:Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts

Source: Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts

“Good kids are like sunsets. We take them for granted. Every evening they disappear. Most parents never imagine how hard they try to please us, and how miserable they feel when they think they have failed.”

Thinking Feels Trying Hard Kids Parent Imagine Please Disappear Evening Granted Miserable Sunset

Author:Erma Bombeck

“A gentleman of Typee can bring up a numerous family of children and give them all a highly respectable cannibal education, with infinitely less toil and anxiety than he expends in the simple process of striking a light; whilst a poor European artisan, who through the instrumentality of a lucifer performs the same operation in one second, is put to his wits' end to provide for his starving offspring that food which the children of a Polynesian father, without troubling their parent, pluck from the branches of every tree around them.”

Source: Typee: A Romance of the South Seas (Illustrated & Annotated Edition)

“Of what is real I say, Is it the old, the roseate parent or The bride come jingling, kissed and cupped, or else The spirit and all ensigns of the self?”

Real Self Reality Spirit Parent Realism Brides

Book:The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens

Source: The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens

“The all American work ethic, destructive enough by itself, also packs a gender double standard that strip-mines the natural resources of both parents. It has taught us that as their earnings and success increase, men become "more manly," while women become "less feminine." This perverse cultural dynamic gives fathers an incentive to stay away from their families and kill themselves at work, while coercing mothers to limit their career commitment, which in turn limits their wages and shortchanges their families.”

“Compared to other parents, remarried parents seem more desirous of their child's approval, more alert to the child's emotional state, and more sensitive in their parent-child relations. Perhaps this is the result of heightened empathy for the child's suffering, perhaps it is a guilt reaction; in either case, it gives the child a potent weapon--the power to disrupt the new household and come between parent and the new spouse.”

Source: Family politics: love and power on an intimate frontier

“The children of childish parents age quickly.”

Children Age Parent Aging

Author:Mason Cooley

“Everything is ideal to its parent.”

Parent Family Ideals

Author:Sophocles

“The average parent may, for example, plant an artist or fertilize a ballet dancer and end up with a certified public accountant. We cannot train children along chicken wire to make them grow in the right direction. Tying them to stakes is frowned upon, even in Massachusetts.”

May Children Ends Artist Grows Parent Example Train Plant Average Dancer Chickens Stakes Ballet Wire Right Direction Accountants Massachusetts Ballet Dancer Certified Public Accountant

Book:Close to Home

Source: Close to Home

“As parents, you may confidently rear your children according to Gods Word. While bringing up your children, you are to remember that your children are not your 'possessions' but instead are the Lords gift to you. You are to exercise faithful stewardship in their lives.”

May Children Remember Parent Lord Exercise Our Children Possession Faithful Your Children Word Of God Stewardship

Author:John C. Broger

“I think some parents fall into a trap, teaching their kids that everything is always perfect and everyone is always a winner.”

Thinking Kids Fall Parent Perfect Teaching Winner Traps

Author:Summer Sanders

“My parents were very Old World. They come from Brooklyn, which is the heart of the Old World. Their values in life are God and carpeting.”

World Heart Values Parent Identity Brooklyn Old World Value Of Life Cultural Identity

Author:Woody Allen

“The promise of our country is that the rules are fair. If you work hard and play by the rules, you can earn your share of America's blessings. Those are the beliefs I learned from my parents.”

Ifs Country Hard Play America Belief Parent Share Hard Work Promise Blessing Fairs Our Country

Author:Geraldine Ferraro

“I believe there are monsters born in the world to human parents.... The face and body may be perfect, but if a twisted gene or a malformed egg can produce physical monsters, may not the same process produce a malformed soul?”

Ifs World Believe Humans May Soul Body Faces Evil I Believe Process Parent Born Perfect Produce Monsters Eggs Genes Twisted Eden East Of Eden

Book:East of Eden

Source: East of Eden

“I worry about people who get born nowadays, because they get born into such tiny families--sometimes into no family at all. When you're the only pea in the pod, your parents are likely to get you confused with the Hope Diamond. And that encourages you to talk too much.”

People Children Sometimes Parent Born Family Worry Too Much Tiny Confused Diamond Peas Pampering

Book:Inventing the Truth: The Art and Craft of Memoir

Source: Inventing the Truth: The Art and Craft of Memoir

“The protection of a ten-year-old girl from her father's advances is a necessary condition of social order, but the protection of the father from temptation is a necessary condition of his continued social adjustment. The protections that are built up in the child against desire for the parent become the essential counterpart to the attitudes in the parent that protect the child.”

Source: Male and female: a study of the sexes in a changing world

“It used to be said that, socially speaking, Philadelphia asked who a person is, New York how much is he worth, and Boston what does he know. Nationally it has now become generally recognized that Boston Society has long cared even more than Philadelphia about the first point and has refined the asking of who a person is to the point of demanding to know who he was. Philadelphia asks about a man's parents; Boston wants to know about his grandparents.”

Knows Men Want Firsts Persons Long Doe Said Used Asks Parent New York Asking Used To Be Grandparent Boston Refined Philadelphia

Author:Cleveland Amory

“Parents have railed against shelters near schools, but no one has made any connection between the crazed consumerism of our kids and their elders' cold unconcern toward others. Maybe the homeless are not the only ones who need to spend time in these places to thaw out.”

Needs Made Kids School Values Parent Cold Connections Shelter Consumerism Homeless End Times Elders Spend Time Meanness

Book:Thinking Out Loud: On the Personal, the Political, the Public and the Private

Source: Thinking Out Loud: On the Personal, the Political, the Public and the Private

“Raising children is a spur-of-the-moment, seat-of-the-pants sort of deal, as any parent knows, particularly after an adult child says that his most searing memory consists of an offhand comment in the car on the way to second grade that the parent cannot even dimly recall.”

Knows Way Children Moments Parent Memories Deals Car Adults Seats Grades Comment Pants Recalls Raising Children Spurs Spur Of The Moment Adult Children

Author:Anna Quindlen

“Kids and violent TV, violent TV and violence, violence and kids. The only people missing from this discussion are the parents. Where are we? Gone. Abdicated.”

People Kids Parent Gone Violence Missing Tvs Violent Discussion

Author:Anna Quindlen

“Young men kill someone for a handful of coins, then are remorseless, even casual: Hey, man, things happen. And their parents nab the culprit: it was the city, the cops, the system, the crowd, the music. Anyone but him. Anyone but me.”

Men Happens Young Parent Cities Responsibility Violence Crowds Things Happen Hey Young Man Cop Coins Handful Casual Culprit Remorseless

Book:Thinking Out Loud: On the Personal, the Political, the Public and the Private

Source: Thinking Out Loud: On the Personal, the Political, the Public and the Private

“Maybe someday it will seem quaint that, during a time of plague, some of the parents of the 1990s wanted to deny their children protection so that they could safeguard their own self- image. Or maybe we'll just seem like a bunch of lunatics.”

Children Self Seems Wanted Parent Deny Protection Aids Bunch Someday Plague Respectability Quaint Maybe Someday

Author:Anna Quindlen

“Adolescence is a tough time for parent and child alike. It is a time between: between childhood and maturity, between parental protection and personal responsibility, between life stage- managed by grown-ups and life privately held.”

Children Parent Responsibility Childhood Stage Tough Protection Maturity Adolescence Tough Times Personal Responsibility Parental Children And Parents

Book:Thinking Out Loud: On the Personal, the Political, the Public and the Private

Source: Thinking Out Loud: On the Personal, the Political, the Public and the Private

“I think that parents ought to get some idea of how the so- called "experts" have changed their advice over the decades, so that they won't take them deadly seriously, and so that if the parent has the strong feeling, "I don't like this advice," the parent won't feel compelled to follow it. . . . So don't worry about trying to do a perfect job. There is no perfect job. There is no one way of raising your children.”

“My view on issues is based on common sense, and my experience as a mother of four children, as a sole parent, and as a businesswoman running a fish and chip shop.”

Children Running Mother Parent Views Common Issues Four Fishes Common Sense Shops Sole Chips Fish And Chips

Author:Pauline Hanson

“Forgiving presupposes remembering. And it creates a forgetting not in the natural way we forget yesterday's weather, but in the way of the great "in spite of" that says: I forget although I remember. Without this kind of forgetting no human relationship can endure healthily. I don't refer to a solemn act of asking for and offering forgiveness. Such rituals as sometimes occur between parents and children, or friends, or man and wife, are often acts of moral arrogance on the one part and enforced humiliation on the other. But I speak of the lasting willingness to accept him who has hurt us.”

“Hardly had the glow been kindled by some good deed on your part or by some little triumph over your rivals or by a word of praisefrom your parents or mentors when it would begin to cool and fade leaving you in a very short time as chill and dim as before.”

Littles Parent Achievement Praise Leaving Deeds Triumph Over You Fades Mentor Good Deeds Chill Rivals Short Time

Book:Company / Ill Seen Ill Said / Worstward Ho / Stirrings Still

Source: Company / Ill Seen Ill Said / Worstward Ho / Stirrings Still

“And fathers are a blessing, too, they give the place a tone; In fact each child should try and have some parents of its own.”

Giving Should Trying Children Facts Father Parent Blessing Tone

Author:Louis Untermeyer

“My fatherhood made me understand my parents and to honor them more for the love they gave. My sonhood was revealed to me in its own perfection and I understood the reason the Chinese so value filiality, the responsibility of the son to honor the parents.”

Made Reason Values Parent Responsibility Son Honor Understood Perfection Chinese My Son Fatherhood

Author:Kent Nerburn

“Hopefulness is the heartbeat of the relationship between a parent and child. Each time a child overcomes the next challenge of hislife, his triumph encourages new growth in his parents. In this sense a child is parent to his mother and father.”

Heart Children Mother Next Father Parent Growth Challenges Overcoming Triumph Heartbeat Mother And Father Children And Parents Hopefulness New Growth

Book:Oneness and separateness: from infant to individual

Source: Oneness and separateness: from infant to individual

“Though they themselves might be as surprised as their parents and teachers to hear it said, adolescents--these poignantly thin- skinned and vulnerable, passionate and impulsive, starkly sexual and monstrously self-absorbed creatures--are, in fact, avid seekers of moral authenticity. They wish above all to achieve some realistic power over the real world in which they live while at the same time remaining true to their values and ideals.”

“When a child becomes an adult . . . the elders are fearful. And for good reason . . . not we but they are the germinators of future generations. Will they leave us behind as we did our parents? Consign us to neatly paved retirement villages? Trample us in the dust as they go flying out to their new galaxies? We had better tie them down, flagellate them, isolate them in the family cocoon, . . . indoctrinate them into the tribal laws and make sure they kneel before the power of the elders.”

Children Reason Law Parent Behinds Generations Adults Flying Dust Ties Village Retirement Fearful Adolescence Galaxy Elders Future Generation Cocoons

Author:Louise J. Kaplan

“We belong to that order of mammals, the primates, distinguished by its propensity for repeated single litters, intense parental care, long life-spans, late sexual maturity, and a complex and extensive social existence... Our protracted biological and psychological helplessness, which extends well into the third year of life, intensifies the bond between infant and parents, making possible a sense of generational continuity. In contrast to other primates these bonds are not obliterated after sexual maturity.”

Source: Adolescence: The Farewell to Childhood

“Young people...have more compassion and tenderness toward the elderly than most middle-aged adults. Nothing--not avarice, not pride, not scrupulousness, not impulsiveness--so disillusions a youth about her parents as the seemingly inhumane way they treat her grandparents.”

People Way Young Parent Compassion Middle Youth Pride Adults Treats Tenderness Grandparent Elderly Avarice Middle Aged Disillusion Inhumane

Author:Louise J. Kaplan

“Imagine what it must be like for teenagers who don't feel they have room to breathe in their own homes. If you are a parent reading this book, you care about your child. If she is quirky, unusual, or nonconformist, ask yourself whether you are doing everything you can to nurture her unusual interests, style, or skills, or whether instead you are directly or subtly pushing her to hide them.”

Ifs Feels Children Book Home Care Reading Asks Parent Interest Rooms Imagine Style Skills Our Children Breathe Teenager Your Children Pushing Unusual Nurture Quirky Nonconformist

Author:Alexandra Robbins

“Parents cannot expect advice to have the same force upon their children as experience has upon themselves.”

Children Force Parent Advice Experience

Author:Samuel Richardson

“The legacies that parents and church and teachers left to my generation of Black children were priceless but not material: a living faith reflected in daily service, the discipline of hard work and stick-to-itiveness, and a capacity to struggle in the face of adversity.”

“Adolescence is a time when children are supposed to move away from parents who are holding firm and protective behind them. When the parents disconnect, the children have no base to move away from or return to. They aren't ready to face the world alone. With divorce, adolescents feel abandoned, and they are outraged at that abandonment. They are angry at both parents for letting them down. Often they feel that their parents broke the rules and so now they can too.”

World Feels Children Faces Moving Parent Behinds Ready Return Angry Divorce Broke Firm Abandoned Adolescence Abandonment Protective Outraged

Author:Mary Pipher

“Adolescents' immature thinking makes it difficult for them to process the divorce. They tend to see things in black-and-white terms and have trouble putting events into perspective. They are absolute in their judgments and expect perfection in parents. They are likely to be self-conscious about their parent's failures and critical of their every move. They have the expectations that parents will keep them safe and happy and are shocked by the broken covenant. Adolescents are unforgiving.”

Source: Reviving Ophelia

“It's important for parents to watch for trouble and convey to their daughters that, if it comes, they are strong enough to deal with it. Parents who send their [adolescent] daughters the message that they'll be overwhelmed by problems aren't likely to hear what's really happening.”

Ifs Important Enough Problem Strong Parent Deals Watches Trouble Messages Happenings Daughter Adolescence Overwhelmed Strong Enough

Book:Reviving Ophelia

Source: Reviving Ophelia

“Traditionally parents have wondered what their teens were doing, but now teens are much more likely to be doing things that can get them killed.”

Parent Teens Adolescence

Book:Reviving Ophelia

Source: Reviving Ophelia

“Most parents of adolescent girls have the goal of keeping their daughters safe while they grow up and explore the world. The parents' job is to protect, the daughter's job is to explore.”

World Jobs Girl Grows Parent Goal Growing Up Protect Safe Daughter Adolescence

Author:Mary Pipher

“The proliferation of support groups suggests to me that too many Americans are growing up in homes that do not contain a grandmother. A home without a grandmother is like an egg without salt.... The emotionally satisfying discussions that take place in Chronic Pain Outreach and Depression Resources are simply updated versions of the grandmotherly practice of hanging crepe. We could eliminate much of the isolation that support groups exist to fill and save the "traditional family" that everybody is so worried about if more couples took their aging parents to live with them.”

“For a parent, it's hard to recognize the significance of your work when you're immersed in the mundane details. Few of us, as we run the bath water or spread the peanut butter on the bread, proclaim proudly, "I'm making my contribution to the future of the planet." But with the exception of global hunger, few jobs in the world of paychecks and promotions compare in significance to the job of parent.”

World Hard Running Jobs Parent Water Planets Hunger Details Spread Bread Compare Contribution Exception Significance Parenthood Promotion Baths Mundane Peanuts Paychecks Peanut Butter

Author:Joyce Maynard

“One of the sad realities of being a parent is that the same stuff you know is exciting, educational, and enriching in your child'slife is often messy, smelly and exhausting to deal with.”

Knows Children Reality Stuff Parent Deals Exciting Educational Your Children Parenthood Messy Exhausting Being A Parent Enriching Smelly Sad Reality

Author:Joyce Maynard

“Parents offer an open womb. More than anyone else in your life, mothers, and sometimes fathers, can kiss it, and make it well whentheir grown children need to regress and repair. More than anyone else in your life, mothers, and sometimes fathers, can catch you when you start to fall. When you are in disgrace, defeat, and despair, home may be the safest place to hide.”

Needs Wells May Children Sometimes Home Mother Fall Father Parent Offers Kissing Despair Defeat Womb Disgrace Grown Children

Author:Frank Pittman

“We never really are the adults we pretend to be. We wear the mask and perhaps the clothes and posture of grown-ups, but inside ourskin we are never as wise or as sure or as strong as we want to convince ourselves and others we are. We may fool all the rest of the people all of the time, but we never fool our parents. They can see behind the mask of adulthood. To her mommy and daddy, the empress never has on any clothes--and knows it.”

People Knows Want May Strong Parent Behinds Growing Up Wise Fool Clothes Adults Convince Mask Adulthood Daddy Posture Empresses Mommy And Daddy

Author:Frank Pittman

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