“The Lord may want to colonise other Worlds with His new perfect children! What's the whole Universe for and all this huge amount of space if He's only interested in colonising one little Planet? What an incubation! What an incubator for other civilizations!-Right here on the New Earth and the Heavenly City!” IfsWorldWantMayChildrenLittlesWholeEarthUniverseSpacePerfectCitiesLordPlanetsHugeAmountCivilizationHeavenlyOther WorldsNew EarthIncubationPerfect Child Author:David Berg
“Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.” ChildrenKidsMotherParentMarriageWorryListeningModelsOur ChildrenParentingMy ChildrenMinistersYour ChildrenParenthoodRole ModelsModelingBeing A MomJust ListenSingle MomBeing A ParentTeaching ChildrenChildren And ParentsRutsSingle ParentChild RearingFunny ParentingParent ChildHappy ChildrenFunny ParentParents And TeachersBeing A KidCoping MechanismsLasting MarriageBeing A Role ModelGreat ParentingInspirational ParentingAmazing ParentsLoving ChildrenInspirational ParentsParent Child RelationshipWonderful ParentsWise ParentsHappy KidWonderful ChildrenRearing A ChildSingle ChildPerfect ChildParents MarriageAlways Worrying Author:Robert Fulghum
“There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.” GivingChildrenTwoKidsParentInspiringFamilyRootsOur ChildrenWingsParentingMy ChildrenLastingInheritanceBeing A ParentOnly ChildChildren LoveChildren And ParentsParents LoveFunny ParentingParent ChildHappy ChildrenFunny ParentKids LoveWedding ToastLove Your ChildrenGreat ParentingInspirational ParentingParenthood FunnyLove My ParentsAmazing ParentsBest ParentsI Love My ParentsChildren And LoveGrown ChildrenLove Our ChildrenPerfect ChildKid At HeartRoots And Wings Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“I want to be the perfect child. I owe so much to my parents and the way I was brought up.” WayWantChildrenParentPerfectPerfect Child Author:Leonardo DiCaprio
“There are no perfect parents, and there are no perfect children, but there are plenty of perfect moments along the way.” WayChildrenMomentsParentPerfectPlentyPerfect MomentsPerfect ParentsPerfect Child Author:Dave Willis
“You can't do it all. No one can have two full-time jobs, have perfect children and cook three meals and be multi-orgasmic 'til dawn ... Superwoman is the adversary of the women's movement.” ChildrenTwoJobsThreePerfectMovementCooksDawnMealsAdversariesFull Time JobsSuperwomanSuper WomanPerfect Child Author:Gloria Steinem
“I find the term perfect child to be an oxymoron.” ChildrenTermPerfectOxymoronPerfect Child Author:Barbara Park
“A conscious parent is not one who seeks to fix her child or seek to produce or create the 'perfect' child. This is not about perfection. The conscious parent understands that is journey has been undertaken, this child has been called forth to 'raise the parent' itself. To show the parent where the parent has yet to grow. This is why we call our children into our lives.” ChildrenHas BeensShowsGrowsParentPerfectOur LivesJourneyProduceConsciousPerfectionOur ChildrenRaisesPerfect Child Author:Shefali Tsabary
“My kids are supposed to live till they are one hundred. You don't have to have a perfect house or a perfect relationship with your child or a perfect child, and you yourself do not have to be perfect.” ChildrenKidsHousePerfectHundredOur ChildrenYour ChildrenPerfect RelationshipPerfect Child Author:Anne Enright
“Kind 'Guardian' readers have been forwarding me round robin Christmas newsletters for years now: lengthy missives full of perfect children, exotic holidays, talented pets and endless, tedious detail. The notes that accompanied them revealed they had inspired in the original recipients everything from mild irritation to absolute rage.” YearsKindChildrenHas BeensPerfectReaderAbsolutesOriginalsNotesInspiredRoundsDetailsRageEndlessPetHolidayGuardianTediousExoticRobinsIrritationLengthyNewslettersPerfect Child Author:Simon Hoggart
“And Grandmother Hall really imagines that she can raise Eleanor and her two brothers differently than these children were raised. And if she is very strict and everything is very regimented and ordered and disciplined, that they will become the perfect children who her own children did not become.” IfsChildrenTwoPerfectImagineBrotherRaisesRaisedGrandmotherHallsImagine ThatStrictEleanorTwo BrothersPerfect Child Author:Blanche Wiesen Cook
“A lot of times I play the villain or the comic relief, and I get to kind of play the comic relief to a degree, which is fun, but I also get to say, "You are created in the image in God. You are a perfect child of God. And this part of you is the heart of who you are. You're not alone, and you're okay just the way you are."” WayHeartKindChildrenPlayFunPerfectDegreesOkayWho You AreComicReliefVillainNot AloneChild Of GodComic ReliefPerfect Child Author:Missi Pyle
“Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.” ChildrenWisdomKidsCultureParentEducationFamilyTeachingListeningDiversityModelsSocial JusticeParentingVery GoodEducationalMy ChildrenYour ChildrenRole ModelsListenersImitationDeep ThoughtEldersJust ListenBeing A ParentHaving ChildrenImitatingChildren And ParentsHaving KidsGood ParentGood ListenerHappy ChildrenChildren EducationImitatorParents And TeachersBeing A KidBeing A Role ModelChild PsychologyGood ParentingSetting An ExampleGood Role ModelsAmazing ParentsHappy KidBeing A Good ParentInspirational ChildrenSetting A Good ExamplePerfect ChildGood Upbringing Author:James A. Baldwin
“When I was young, my favorite picture book was 'Fletcher and Zenobia,' written by Edward Gorey and illustrated by Victoria Chess. It's long out of print now, but its mix of macabre humor and 1960s psychedelia made it a perfect children's book for the times.” ChildrenLongMadeBookYoungPerfectWrittenMy FavoriteChessMade ItPrint1960sChildren's BooksVictoriaPicture BooksMacabrePerfect Child Author:Rick Riordan
“Families were never what you wanted them to be. We all wanted what we couldn't have: the perfect child, the doting husband, the mother who wouldn't let go. We live in our grown-up dollhouses completely unaware that, at any moment, a hand might come in and change around everything we'd become accustomed to.” ChildrenMomentsHandsMightWantedMotherPerfectHusbandLetting GoAccustomedPerfect ChildDollhouses Author:Jodi Picoult
“More than anything else I recall being, or trying very deliberately to be, a perfect child. Not a Goody Two-shoes, but a kid who did good, who worked hard and met every expectation. I strove to achieve in the excessive way that psychotherapists tend to regard with concern.” WayTryingChildrenTwoHardKidsPerfectAchieveMetsExpectationsConcernRegardShoesRecallsPsychotherapistsGoody Two ShoesPerfect Child Author:James McGreevey
“It's okay that your parents aren't perfect; no one's are. And it's okay that they didn't have any perfect children either; no one's are. You see, our whole purpose is to strive together in righteousness, overcoming our weaknesses day by day. Don't ever give up on each other.” GivingChildrenWholeTogetherPurposeParentPerfectGiving UpWeaknessOkayOvercomingStriveRighteousnessDon't Ever Give UpPerfect Child Author:Ardeth Kapp