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“The beauty of 'spacing' children many years apart lies in the fact that parents have time to learn the mistakes that were made with the older ones - which permits them to make exactly the opposite mistakes with the younger ones.”

Years Children Made Facts Lying Parent Mistake Humorous Opposites Parenting Permit Funny Parenting Funny Parent Spacing

Book:Leaving the Surface

Source: Leaving the Surface

“Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized.”

Children Littles Girl Parent Family Childhood Adults Cute Cat Eye

Book:Cat's Eye

Source: Cat's Eye

“Since we have had this baby with us, I have never again wondered why I never got pregnant. There is no doubt in my mind that God, in His wonderful way, was saving us to be the parents of this wonderful little boy.”

Way Mind Littles Parent Boys Doubt Wonderful Baby Saving No Doubt Pregnant Little Boys

Author:Kathleen Silber

“I think every parent takes more pleasure in seeing their child succeed than seeing themselves succeed.”

Thinking Children Parent Pleasure Seeing Succeed

Author:Jerry Reinsdorf

“When you feel protective toward your parents, you have become an adult.”

Feels Parent Adults Protective

Author:Mason Cooley

“Disobedient parents are a great trouble to their children.”

Children Parent Trouble

Author:Mason Cooley

“Every parent can imagine the joys of child abuse.”

Children Joy Parent Imagine Abuse Child Abuse

Author:Mason Cooley

“If in the earlier part of the century, middle-class children suffered from overattentive mothers, from being "mother's only accomplishment," today's children may suffer from an underestimation of their needs. Our idea of what a child needs in each case reflects what parents need. The child's needs are thus a cultural football in an economic and marital game.”

Ifs Needs May Children Ideas Today Mother Suffering Games Parent Class Cases Economic Middle Century Football Accomplishment Middle Class

Author:Arlie Russell Hochschild

“I don't think women can have it all. I just don't think so...My husband and I have been married for 34 years, and we have two daughters. And every day you have to make a decision about whether you are going to be a wife or a mother. In fact, many times during the day you have to make those decisions...We co-opted our families to help us. We plan our lives meticulously so we can be decent parents. But if you ask our daughters, I'm not sure they will say that I've been a good mom.”

“Every human being is a universe within themselves. Your mother and father participated with God to create a soul who would never cease to exist. Your parents, as co-creators, supplied the stuff, genetics and more, uniquely combined to form a masterpiece, not flawless but still astounding; and we took from their hands what they brought to us, submitting to their timing and history and added what only we could bring to them -- life. You were conceived, a living wonder who exploded into being.”

Humans Stills Soul Hands Form Mother Universe Father Stuff Parent Human Beings Wonder Creator Cease Timing Masterpiece Genetics Mother And Father Flawless

Author:William P. Young

“The authoritarian child-rearing style so often found in working-class families stems in part from the fact that parents see aroundthem so many young people whose lives are touched by the pain and delinquency that so often accompanies a life of poverty. Therefore, these parents live in fear for their children's future--fear that they'll lose control, that the children will wind up on the streets or, worse yet, in jail.”

People Children Facts Pain Young Found Parent Loses Class Poverty Streets Style Wind Touched Jail Stem Working Class Accompany Child Rearing Delinquency

Author:Lillian B. Rubin

“I never hear parents exclaim impatiently, "Children, you must no make so much noise," that I do not think how soon the time may come when, beside the vacant seat, those parents would give all the world, could they hear once more the ringing laughter which once so disturbed them.”

Thinking World Giving May Children Parent Laughter Noise Seats Disturbed Vacant

Author:Abbott Eliot Kittredge

“I believe that the fewer the laws in a home the better; but there is one law which should be as plainly understood as the shining of the sun is visible at noonday, and that is, implicit and instantaneous obedience from the child to the parent, not only for the peace of the home, but for the highest good of the child.”

Should Believe Children Home Law I Believe Parent Sun Highest Understood Shining Obedience Visible Fewer Implicit Instantaneous

Author:Abbott Eliot Kittredge

“We shall therefore take an appropriately correct view of the origin of our life, if we consider our own embryos to have sprung immediately from those embryos whence our parents were developed, and these from the embryos of their parents, and so on for ever. We should in this way look on the nature of mankind, and perhaps on that of the whole animated creation, as one Continuous System, ever pushing out new branches in all directions, that variously interlace, and that bud into separate lives at every point of interlacement.”

Ifs Way Should Looks Whole Parent Views Our Lives Mankind Creation Branches Pushing Animated Bud Nature Of Man Sprung Heredity Embryos Separate Lives

Author:Francis Galton

“Home schoolers do not wish to force other parents to home school. Gun owners do not insist that others buy guns, or that hunting be promoted as an alternative lifestyle. It is not the National Rifle Association out lobbying to have government schools read books entitled 'Heather Has Two Hunters' to preschoolers. It is, in fact, the Left that now strives to use state power to impose its morality by forcing all taxpayers to pay for abortions and public "art" that mocks people of faith. It is the Left that forces parents to pay for government schools where they do not wish to send their children.”

“For life goes not backward, nor tarries with yesterday.”

Parent Our Children Parenting Yesterday Prophet Raising Children Bows And Arrows

Author:Khalil Gibran

“Learning is good in and of itself...the mothers of the Jewish ghettoes of the east would pour honey on a book so the children would know that learning is sweet. And the parents who settled hungry Kansas would take their children in from the fields when a teacher came.”

Knows Children Book Mother Parent Education Teacher Fields Sweet East Hungry Honey Kansas

Author:George H. W. Bush

“Come forth, old man,--thy daughter's side Is now the fitting place for thee: When time has quell'd the oak's bold pride, The youthful tendril yet may hide, The ruins of the parent tree.”

Men May Age Parent Sides Tree Pride Daughter Ruins Thee Old Man Fitting Oaks

Book:Woodstock, Complete: Scott's Works Vol.24

Source: Woodstock, Complete: Scott's Works Vol.24

“To how many is the death of the beloved the parent of faith!”

Death Parent Beloved

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“Pedigrees seldom improve by age; the grandson is too often a weak infringement on the grandsire's parent.”

Age Parent Weak Ancestry Grandson Pedigree Infringement

Author:Josh Billings

“There is an education of the mind Which all require and parents only start. But there is training of a nobler kind And that's the education of the heart. Lessons that are most difficult to give Are Faith and Courage and the way to live.”

Way Giving Mind Heart Kind Parent Difficult Education Lessons Training Way To Live Faith And Courage

Author:Edgar Guest

“A new survey found that 12 percent of parents punish their kids by banning social networking sites. The other 88 percent punish their kids by joining social networking sites.”

Kids Found Social Parent Percent Site Networking Joining Surveys Social Networking Social Network Social Networking Sites Networking Sites

Author:Jimmy Fallon

“A "snapshot" feature in USA Today listed the five greatest concerns parents and teachers had about children in the '50s: talking out of turn, chewing gum in class, doing homework, stepping out of line, cleaning their rooms. Then it listed the five top concerns of parents today: drug addiction, teenage pregnancy, suicide and homicide, gang violence, anorexia and bulimia. We can also add AIDS, poverty, and homelessness. . . . Between my own childhood and the advent of my motherhood--one short generation--the culture had gone completely mad.”

“If we are at war with our parents, our family, our society, or our church, there is probably a war going on inside us also, so the most basic work for peace is to return to ourselves and create harmony among the elements within us - our feelings, our perceptions, and our mental states. That is why the practice of meditation, looking deeply, is so important.”

Source: Living Buddha, Living Christ 10th Anniversary Edition

“The man who disobeys his parents will have disobedient sons.”

Men Parent He Man Son

Author:Nachman of Breslov

“The unmarried woman seldom escapes a widowhood of the spirit. There is sure to be some one, parent, brother, sister, friend, more comfortable to her than the day, with whom her life is so entwined that the wrench of parting leaves a torn void never entirely healed or filled.”

Source: Delphi Complete Novels of Charlotte Mary Yonge (Illustrated)

“I have not said your values are wrong. But neither are they right. They are simply judgments. Assessments. Decisions. For the most part, they are decisions made not by you, but by someone else. Your parents, perhaps. Your religion. Your teachers, historians, politicians.”

Inspirational Made Said Values Parent Religious Decision Teacher Politician Judgment Historian Assessment Decisions Made

Book:The Complete Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue

Source: The Complete Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue

“I'd have to say I'm most proud of my mentoring camp that I do in Dallas every year for one hundred boys from single-parent homes. I was raised by a mother who was a Sunday school teacher and a father who worked hard. Together they taught me to give back.”

“That other saying, I'm a part of all that I have met, I think that would have to begin with my wonderful parents back in Atlanta when I was a youngster five years old I was tongue tied.”

Thinking Years Parent Five Wonderful Mets Tongue Five Years Tied Youngsters Atlanta Five Year Olds Tongue Tied Wonderful Parents

Book:Tuned to Baseball

Source: Tuned to Baseball

“A parent, unlike a poet, is not born - he is made.”

Made Parent Born Poet

Author:Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

“No matter how children came to be living with just one parent, they need to be told, again and again, that your family's configuration is the result of an adult decision or an act of fate that has nothing whatsoever to do with them.”

Needs Children Matter Parent Decision Results Fate Adults Just One Again And Again Configuration

Book:The Single-parent Family: Living Happily in a Changing World

Source: The Single-parent Family: Living Happily in a Changing World

“Single parents in particular may have trouble maintaining themselves as authority figures because of underlying guilt; they feel acontinuing sense that they have deprived their kids of the second parent, and so they tend to give in to the children's requests, even when unreasonable.”

Giving Feels May Children Kids Parent Trouble Figures Particular Discipline Authority Guilt Maintaining Deprived Request Unreasonable Single Parent Authority Figures

Author:Marge M. Kennedy

“Parents, whether or not we believe in a deity, know that to witness a child's mind searching for meaning is a miracle.”

Knows Mind Believe Children Parent Miracle Witness Deities

Author:Marge M. Kennedy

“All parents want their offspring to be exemplars of virtue and achievement and happiness. But most of all, we want desperately for you to be safe - safe from disease and violence and self-destruction.”

Want Self Parent Virtue Violence Safe Disease Achievement Destruction Offspring Self Destruction

Author:Estelle Ramey

“there is probably no such thing as an innocent question, at least not when a parent is doing the asking.”

Parent Asking Innocent

Author:Phyllis Grissim-Theroux

“one of my earliest joys as a parent lay in knowing that at the end of the day I had once again ushered three babies back to their beds, against the odds, unscathed and peaceful. Happiness was a houseful of safe, inert bodies. Actually, it still is.”

Stills Ends Body Joy Three Parent Knowing Baby Bed Safe Lays Peaceful The End Of The Day Odds Against The Odds

Author:Phyllis Grissim-Theroux

“Have we arrived at our own faith and our own path or simply internalized the beliefs of parents, clergy, spouse, or friends?”

Belief Parent Path Spouse Clergy

Author:Joan Z. Borysenko

“I don't care if you're a parent giving to a child, a worker to a company, or a romantic to a lover, this behavior eventually leads to resentment. There's always a hidden agenda of What's in it for me? It's often suppressed, and this is why sacrifice is ultimately unwise and incomplete. Does this mean that there's no such thing as altruism, philanthropy, or generosity? No, it just means that anytime these exist, so do egocentricity, misanthropy, and greed. There's always a balancing force, even if it's sometimes hidden or unconscious.”

“Children and old people and the parents in between should be able to live together, in order to learn how to die with grace, together. And I fear that this is purely utopian fantasy.”

People Should Children Able Together Death Order Dies Parent Family Fantasy Grace Generations Dying Old People Utopian

Author:M. F. K. Fisher

“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

“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

“Would that our harsh judgments could be restrained, our impatience checked, our selfishness broken down, our passions controlled, our waste of time and life in worthless or unworthy objects corrected, by the thought that there is One in whose hands we are, who cares for us with a parent's love, who will judge us hereafter without the slightest tinge of human' infirmity, the All-Merciful and the All-Just.”

“We found ... that being a good parent to one's own child was never and in no way enough; until we were all responsible for all the children of the world, no child would ever be safe, no society could survive.”

World Way Children Enough Found Parent Safe Responsible Good Parent Being A Good Parent

Author:Eda LeShan

“If you are a parent it helps if you are a grown-up.”

Ifs Helping Parent

Author:Eda LeShan

“It helps parents to feel better if we remind them of our failures with them! And how they turned out just fine despite our imperfections.... We never get over needing nurturing parents. The more we comfort our own adult children, the more they can comfort our grandchildren.”

Ifs Feels Children Helping Parent Fine Comfort Adults Despite Parenthood Imperfection Feel Better Get Over Grandchildren Nurturing Adult Children

Author:Eda LeShan

“Partiality in a parent is unlucky; for fondlings are in danger to be made fools.”

Made Parent Danger Fool Unlucky Partiality Fondling

Author:Roger L'Estrange

“My parents taught me that racial prejudice is a sin, one that robs the world of great minds and talents.”

World Mind Parent Sin Race Talent Taught Prejudice Great Minds Robbing Racial Prejudice Depriving Anti Racist

Author:Edward Brooke

“Can we be unsafe where God has placed us, and where He watches over us as a parent a child that he loves?”

Children God Parent Watches God Love Unsafe

Author:Francois Fenelon

“When a child has a dream and a parent says, "It's not financially feasible; you can't make a living at that; don't do it," we say to the child, run away from home... You must follow your dream. You will never be joyful if you don't. Your dream may change, but you've got to stay after your dreams. You have to.”

Ifs May Children Home Dream Running Parent Your Dreams Running Away Joyful Follow Your Dreams Dreams You Have Away From Home

Author:Esther Hicks

“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.”

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