Child Rearing Quotes

• There's never been a civilization, ever in history, that has embraced homosexuality and turned away from traditional fidelity and traditional marriage, traditional child rearing, and has survived.

  Pat Roberts

  Children, Civilization, Homosexuality

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• 'Dare to Discipline' was published in 1970 in the midst of the Vietnam War and a culture of rebellion. The book was written in that context, but the principles of child rearing have not changed.

  James Dobson

  Children, War, Book

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• The best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.

  Harry S. Truman

  Funny, Leadership, Witty

  Television interview by Edward R. Murrow, CBS, 27 May 1955

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  Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.

  Robert Fulghum

  Marriage, Mother, Children

  "Reflections for Tending the Sacred Garden". Book by Bonita Jean Zimmer (p. 182), April 2003.

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• I looked on child rearing not only as a work of love and duty but as a profession that was fully as interesting and challenging as any honorable profession in the world and one that demanded the best that I could bring to it.

  Rose Kennedy

  Children, Women, Parenting

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• The first principle of child-rearing is to choose a good mother.

  Christian Morgenstern

  Christian, Mother, Children

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• The reward of child rearing is spending the rest of your life proudly knowing this person you helped guide. Let him be himself.

  Mike Sager

  Children, Knowing, Rewards

  "Teens" by Mike Sager, www.esquire.com. June 08, 2012.

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• Child abuse is still sanctioned — indeed, held in high regard — in our society as long as it is defined as child-rearing. It is a tragic fact that parents beat their children in order to escape the emotions from how they were treated by their own parents.

  Alice Miller

  Children, Order, Long

  Alice Miller (1997). “The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self”, p.130, Basic Books

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• Spanking and verbal criticism have become, to many parents, more important tools of child rearing than approval.

  Phil Donahue

  Children, Appreciate, Parent

  Phil Donahue (1979). “My own story, Donahue”

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• So no, it's not all in the genes, but what isn't in the genes isn't in the family environment either. It can't be explained in terms of the overall personalities or the child-rearing practices of parents.

  Steven Pinker

  Children, Practice, Personality

  "A biological understanding of human nature". Edge Interview, www.edge.org. September 18, 2017.

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• Child-rearing is my main interest now. I'm a hands-on father.

  Sean Penn

  Children, Father, Hands

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• Selective ignorance, a cornerstone of child rearing. You don't put kids under surveillance: it might frighten you. Parents should sit tall in the saddle and look upon their troops with a noble and benevolent and extremely nearsighted gaze.

  Garrison Keillor

  Children, Ignorance, Kids

  Garrison Keillor (1990). “Leaving Home”, p.22, Penguin

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• This is one thing they forget to mention in most child-rearing books, that at times you will just lose your mind. Period.

  Anne Lamott

  Children, Book, Mind

  Anne Lamott (2006). “Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith”, p.96, Penguin

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• There are only two things a child will share willingly; communicable diseases and its mother's age.

  Benjamin Spock

  Funny, Mother, Children

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• A perfect parent is a person with excellent child-rearing theories and no actual children.

  Dave Barry

  Inspirational, Children, Perfect Parents

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• Computer system analysis is like child-rearing; you can do grievous damage, but you cannot ensure success.

  Tom DeMarco

  Children, Analysis, Damage

  Tom DeMarco (1978). “Structured analysis and system specification”, Yourdon Press

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• Child-rearing can be a tedious and thankless undertaking.

  Jessica Valenti

  Children, Rearing A Child, Thankless

  Jessica Valenti (2012). “Why Have Kids?: A New Mom Explores the Truth about Parenting and Happiness”, p.19, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• At a time when the American family is threatened as never before, redefining it away from the union of one man and one woman only promises to weaken it as a child-rearing, values-conveying institution.

  Marco Rubio

  Dream, Children, Men

  "Marco Rubio's 'American Dreams': 10 key quotes" by James Hohmann, www.politico.com. January 09, 2015.

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• In sports as in child rearing, marital arguments, or tantrums, the same laws of learning apply; when an emotion is encouraged and the rules permit it, it is perpetuated, not 'drained.' ... An emotion without social rules of containment and expression is like an egg without a shell: a gooey mess.

  Carol Tavris

  Sports, Children, Expression

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• They were bound for college, husbands, child-rearing, unhappiness only dimly perceived- bound, in other words, for life.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Children, Husband, College

  Jeffrey Eugenides (1993). “The Virgin Suicides: A Novel”, p.230, Macmillan

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• He had no imagination either-fatal for one engaged in child-rearing

  Mary Ann Shaffer

  Children, Imagination, Engaged

  Annie Barrows, Mary Ann Shaffer (2011). “The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (Random House Reader's Circle Deluxe Reading Group Edition): A Novel”, p.43, Dial Press

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• There's a marketing scheme that tells you that pregnancy and child rearing will make you into a moron, that your kids are only happy when you're buying them stuff. It's hard being a parent, but I laugh a lot and smile a lot and really enjoy it. The ratio of laughter to sadness is higher. There's part of me that wants to broadcast that. Parenting only affirmed what I already cared about, and that's good.

  Dar Williams

  Laughter, Children, Pregnancy

  "Seeking a 'Better' world". San Francisco Chronicle Interview, www.sfgate.com. October 9, 2005.

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• I'd love to adopt, but having a daughter, Daisy, who's in the middle of her teens, I'm now thinking: Is this a time to start all over again or is this a time to realise those child-rearing years are over?

  Joely Richardson

  Mother, Daughter, Children

  "Joely Richardson wants to adopt but not like Madonna". The Daily Mirror Interview, www.mirror.co.uk. May 30, 2008.

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• We must look towards societies that set a high value on nonaggression and noncompetitive ness, and therefore handle conflicts by nonviolent means. We can see how child rearing patterns produce nurturing adult behaviors.

  Elise M. Boulding

  Children, Mean, Adults

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• The only effective way to help well-intentioned, intelligent persons to do the best they can in raising children is to encourage and guide them always to do their own thinking in their attempts at understanding and dealing with child-rearing situations and problems, and not to rely blindly on the opinions of others.

  Bruno Bettelheim

  Children, Intelligent, Thinking

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