Parenting Quotes - Page 13

• Earn the respect and confidence of your children through your loving relationship with them. A righteous father protects his children with his time and presence in their social, educational, and spiritual activities and responsibilities.

  Howard W. Hunter

  Spiritual, Children, Father

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• If you're asking your kids to exercise, then you better do it, too. Practice what you preach.

  Bruce Jenner

  Kids, Exercise, Practice

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Motherhood has completely changed me. It's just about like the most completely humbling experience that I've ever had. I think that it puts you in your place because it really forces you to address the issues that you claim to believe in and if you can't stand up to those principles when you're raising a child, forget it.

  Diane Keaton

  Children, Believe, Motherhood

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• Misbehavior and punishment are not opposites that cancel each other - on the contrary they breed and reinforce each other.

  Haim Ginott

  Opposites, Punishment, Contrary

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• A child needs both to be hugged and unhugged. The hug lets her know she is valuable. The unhug lets her know that she is viable. If you're always shoving your child away, they will cling to you for love. If you're always holding them closer, they will cling to you for fear.

  Polly Berrien Berends

  Children, Hug, Needs

  Polly Berrien Berends (1991). “Gently lead, or, How to teach your children about God while finding out for yourself”, Harpercollins

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• When we teach our children to be good, to be gentle, to be forgiving (all these are attributes of God), to be generous, to love their follow men, to regard this present age as nothing, we instill virtue in their souls, and reveal the image of God within them.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Children, Men, Soul

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• The fact is that child rearing is a long, hard job, the rewards are not always immediately obvious, the work is undervalued, and parents are just as human and almost as vulnerable as their children.

  Benjamin Spock

  Jobs, Children, Long

  Benjamin Spock, Robert Needlman (2012). “Dr. Spock's Baby and Child Care: 9th Edition”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

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• I don't think children's inner feelings have changed. They still want a mother and father in the very same house; they want places to play.

  Beverly Cleary

  Inspiring, Mother, Children

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• I had no idea that mothering my own child would be so healing to my own sadness from my childhood.

  Susie Bright

  Inspirational, Motivational, Children

  Interview with Heidi Raykeill, www.literarymama.com. April 2004.

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• Mothers, whatever you wish your children to become, strive to exhibit in your own lives and conversation.

  Lydia Sigourney

  Children, Inspiration, Parenthood

  "Letters to mothers".

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• When you hold your baby in your arms the first time, and you think of all the things you can say and do to influence him, it's a tremendous responsibility. What you do with him can influence not only him, but everyone he meets and not for a day or a month or a year but for time and eternity.

  Rose Kennedy

  Baby, Responsibility, Thinking

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• There is nothing more dangerous than a lazy parent.

  Wes Fesler

  Lazy, Laziness, Danger

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• And have your mother put my head on a stake? Do you have any notion what that would do to my handsome good looks?

  Catherine Gilbert Murdock

  Mother, Looks, Handsome

  Catherine Gilbert Murdock (2009). “Princess Ben”, p.7, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The family is the school of duties - founded on love.

  Felix Adler

  Family, School, Aggravation

  FELIX ADLER (1880). “CREED AND DEED A SERIES OF DISCOURSES”

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• Do you know what you call those who use towels and never wash them, eat meals and never do the dishes, sit in rooms they never clean, and are entertained till they drop? If you have just answered, 'A house guest,' you're wrong because I have just described my kids.

  Erma Bombeck

  Kids, Swag, House

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• Don't bother discussing sex with small children. They rarely have anything to add.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Sex, Children, Humorous

  Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.220, Vintage

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• Learning without thinking is useless, but thinking without learning is very dangerous!

  Sukarno

  Thinking, Useless, Dangerous

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• Many things can wait. Children cannot. Today their bones are being formed, their blood is being made, their senses are being developed. To them we cannot say "tomorrow." Their name is today.

  Gabriela Mistral

  Education, Children, Teaching

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• So, you know, parenting is a very intimate and amazing experience and one of the best experiences of my life.

  Uma Thurman

  Best Experiences, Intimate, Knows

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• I take parenting incredibly seriously. I want to be there for my kids and help them navigate the world, and develop skills, emotional intelligence, to enjoy life, and I'm lucky to be able to do that and have two healthy, normal boys.

  Joan Cusack

  Kids, Emotional, Boys

  "Rt Interview: Joan Cusack On War, Inc., The Unofficial Sequel To Grosse Point Blank". Interview with Jen Yamato, editorial.rottentomatoes.com. May 22, 2008.

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• No occupation in this world is more trying to soul and body than the care of young children. What patience and wisdom, skill and unlimited love it calls for. God gave the work to mothers and furnished them for it, and they cannot shirk it and be guiltless

  Isabella Macdonald Alden

  Mother, Children, Soul And Body

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• ~One surprise of motherhood for me was how little control I have. I thought it would be a blissful romance with me at the helm, cuddling this little creature. It's been bittersweet and humbling to let her lead and to not try to be perfect myself.~

  Amanda Peet

  Motherhood, Cuddling, Perfect

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• We go into parenting, and we discover that we don't have the answers. We are at a loss.

  Julia Cameron

  Loss, Answers

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• Insomnia: A contagious disease often transmitted from babies to parents.

  Shannon Fife

  Baby, Children, Humorous

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• Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a child's eyes, is that the child is usually looking upwards, and few faces are at their best when seen from below.

  George Orwell

  Time, Children, Humorous

  George Orwell (1970). “A Collection of Essays”, p.45, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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