Parenting Quotes - Page 16

• I'm trying to break any chain of negative parenting that I might have survived.

  Eddie Vedder

  Trying, Negative, Might

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• I regret not having had more time with my kids when they were growing up.

  Tina Turner

  Growing Up, Regret, Kids

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• I wondered how long it took for a baby to become yours, for familiarity to set in. Maybe as long as it took a new car to lose that scent, or a brand-new house to gather dust. Maybe that was the process more commonly described as bonding: the act of learning your child as well as you know yourself.

  Jodi Picoult

  Baby, Children, Dust

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.258, Simon and Schuster

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• Screaming at children over their grades, especially to the point of the child's tears, is child abuse, pure and simple. It's not funny and it's not good parenting. It is a crushing, scarring, disastrous experience for the child. It isn't the least bit funny.

  Ben Stein

  Crush, Children, Simple

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• If you want to love a parent you have to understand the incredible investment he or she has in you. If you are a parent, and you want to be loved, you have to deserve it.

  Jodi Picoult

  Want, Incredibles, Investment

  Jodi Picoult (2002). “Songs of the Humpback Whale: A Novel in Five Voices”, p.331, Simon and Schuster

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• The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.

  Calvin Trillin

  Funny, Mothers Day, Mom

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• I thought that once we were out of the baby stage, parenting would be a breeze.

  Tori Spelling

  Baby, Would Be, Stage

  "Tori Spelling: I Struggle with Guilt As a Working Mom" by Anya Leon, celebritybabies.people.com. September 12, 2011.

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• Admitting that it is the profession of our sex to teach, we perceive the mother to be first in point of precedence, in degree of power, in the faculty of teaching, and in the department allotted. For in point of precedence she is next to the Creator, in power over her pupil, limitless and without competitor.

  Lydia Sigourney

  Education, Mother, Sex

  Lydia Howard Sigourney (1845). “Letters to Mothers”, p.16

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• The interesting thing about being a mother is that everyone wants pets, but no one but me cleans the kitty litter.

  Meryl Streep

  Mom, Mother, Interesting

  "Elastigirl: SuperMom Survives Summer" by Lisa Pullen Kent, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 16, 2016.

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• It is a wise father that knows his own child.

  William Shakespeare

  Family, Wise, Meaningful

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 2, sc. 2, l. [83]

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• No matter how far we come, our parents are always in us.

  Brad Meltzer

  Matter, I Love My Parents, Parents Love

  Brad Meltzer (2011). “The Inner Circle: The Culper Ring Trilogy 1”, p.200, Hachette UK

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• My father liked me, when I wasna being an idiot. And he loved me, too -- enough to beat the daylights out of me when I was being an idiot. Jamie Fraser

  Diana Gabaldon

  Father, Daylight, Idiot

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• Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Family, Children, Important

  Everybody's Political What's What? (1944) ch. 9

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• The job of every generation is to discover the flaws of the one that came before it. That's part of growing up, figuring out all the ways your parents and their friends are broken.

  Justine Larbalestier

  Jobs, Growing Up, Broken

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• Was it the act of giving birth that made you a mother? Did you lose that label when you relinquished your child? If people were measured by their deeds, on the one hand, I had a woman who had chosen to give me up; on the other, I had a woman who'd sat up with me at night when I was sick as a child, who'd cried with me over boyfriends, who'd clapped fiercely at my law school graduation. Which acts made you more of a mother? Both, I realized. Being a parent wasn't just about bearing a child. It was about bearing witness to its life.

  Jodi Picoult

  Mother, Children, School

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.136, Simon and Schuster

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• A daughter,' Rowley scooped up the child and held her high. The baby blinked from sleep and crowed with him. 'Any fool can have a son,' he said. 'It takes a man to conceive a daughter.

  Ariana Franklin

  Daughter, Baby, Children

  Ariana Franklin (2008). “The Serpent's Tale”, p.43, Penguin

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• When you take the time to actually listen, with humility, to what people have to say, it's amazing what you can learn. Especially if the people who are doing the talking also happen to be children.

  Greg Mortenson

  Funny Inspirational, Children, Humility

  Greg Mortenson (2009). “Stones into Schools: Promoting Peace with Education in Afghanistan and Pakistan”, p.140, Penguin

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• Most of all the other beautiful things in life come by twos and threes, by dozens and hundreds. Plenty of roses, stars, sunsets, rainbows, brothers, and sisters, aunts and cousins, but only one mother in the whole world.

  Kate Douglas Wiggin

  Funny, Family, Mothers Day

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• There are times when parenthood seems nothing more than feeding the hand that bites you.

  Peter De Vries

  Family, Children, Humorous

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• There is a terrible hunger for love. We all experience that in our lives - the pain, the loneliness. We must have the courage to recognize it. The poor you may have right in your own family. Find them. Love them.

  Mother Teresa

  Love, Mother, Pain

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• He thought about the story his daughter was living and the role she was playing inside that story. He realized he hadn't provided a better role for his daughter. He hadn't mapped out a story for his family. And so his daughter had chosen another story, a story in which she was wanted, even if she was only being used. In the absence of a family story, she'd chosen a story in which there was risk and adventure, rebellion and independence.

  Donald Miller

  Daughter, Adventure, Risk

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• How is it possible that our parents lied to us?" "Lets see: Santa, the Tooth Fairy,the Easter bunny,um, God. You're the prettiest kid in school. This wont hurt a bit. Your face will freeze like that..." "Everythings going to be alright.

  Brian K. Vaughan

  Easter, Hurt, School

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• What feeling is so nice as a child's hand in yours? So small, so soft and warm, like a kitten huddling in the shelter of your clasp.

  Wilson Mizner

  Children, Nice, Hands

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• There are no moments more painful for a parent than those in which you contemplate your child's perfect innocence of some imminent pain, misfortune, or sorrow. That innocence (like every kind of innocence children have) is rooted in their trust of you, one that you will shortly be obliged to betray; whether it is fair or not, whether you can help it or not, you are always the ultimate guarantor or destroyer of that innocence.

  Michael Chabon

  Children, Pain, Perfect

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• You are the reason why he exists on this earth. You don't have the right to abandon him just because he's inconvenient or has trouble in school.

  Michael Crichton

  School, Earth, Reason Why

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