Joyce Maynard Quotes About Parents

Quotes about: Parents

• It's not only children who grow. Parents do too. As much as we watch to see what our children do with their lives, they are watching us to see what we do with ours. I can't tell my children to reach for the sun. All I can do is reach for it, myself.

  Joyce Maynard

  Family, Mother, Children

  Joyce Maynard (2010). “At Home in the World: A Memoir”, p.300, Macmillan

• It's not only children who grow. Parents do too.

  Joyce Maynard

  Children, Parenting, Single Child

  Joyce Maynard (2010). “At Home in the World: A Memoir”, p.300, Macmillan

• The word NO, carries a lot more meaning when spoken by a parent who also knows how to say yes.

  Joyce Maynard

  Parent, Know How, Knows

• When I was 12 years old, I read Nancy Drew mysteries and biographies of Madame Curie and Florence Nightingale and books about girls who love horses or go to nursing school. I belonged to the Girl Scouts and got A's in school and rarely disobeyed my parents. I still kept a collection of Barbie dolls in my room, and I almost never spoke to boys.

  Joyce Maynard

  Girl, Horse, Book

  "Coming of Age with Judy Blume". www.nytimes.com. December 3, 1978.

• Growing up in the fifties and sixties, I can only remember knowing one child, ever, whose parents got a divorce, and hardly any whose mother "worked" at anything besides raising her children.

  Joyce Maynard

  Mother, Children, Growing Up

  "Family Is Ultimate Source Of Inspiration" by Joyce Maynard, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 18, 2010.

• The portrait of my parents is a complicated one, but lovingly drawn.

  Joyce Maynard

  Parent, Portraits, Complicated

• 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.

  Joyce Maynard

  Running, Jobs, Water

• 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.

  Joyce Maynard

  Children, Educational, Reality

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