Parenting Quotes - Page 22

• Be original. The world will try to fit you into a mold, but carve your own path.

  Jessica Simpson

  Self Esteem, Trying, Path

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• I've always wanted to be a mom. Because I want to give a kid all of the magical gifts my mom gave me, such as love and friendship.

  Jennifer Love Hewitt

  Mom, Kids, Giving

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• Don't try to be perfect. Life isn't; no one is. Use mistakes and mishaps as opportunities to grow tolerance and to teach. There is such a thing as happy accidents. And love, love, love and listen, listen, listen.

  Teri Hatcher

  Mistake, Opportunity, Perfect

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• I'm not going to have a better day, a more magical moment than the first time I heard my daughter giggle.

  Sean Penn

  Daughter, Firsts, Moments

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• The greatest happiness is family happiness.

  Joyce Brothers

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• My parents taught me I could be anything in the world I wanted to be.

  Joan Jett

  World, Taught, Wanted

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• ~Sometimes, when I want to take on the world, I try to remember that it's just as important to sit down and ask my son how he's feeling or talk to him about life.~

  Angelina Jolie

  Inspiring, Mom, Mother

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• When your kids come home, they don't necessarily want to talk to you. They just want to know you're standing there, ready to talk.

  Meryl Streep

  Home, Kids, Want

  "Oprah Talks to Meryl Streep, Nicole Kidman and Julianne Moore". www.oprah.com. 2003.

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• ~As a mom, you have to look at how much time you're spending with your kids. There is nothing you will regret more in your life - nothing - than not being present for your children.~

  Jamie Lee Curtis

  Mom, Children, Regret

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• Adults constantly raise the bar on smart children, precisely because they're able to handle it. The children get overwhelmed by the tasks in front of them and gradually lose the sort of openness and sense of accomplishment they innately have. When they're treated like that, children start to crawl inside a shell and keep everything inside. It takes a lot of time and effort to get them to open up again. Kids' hearts are malleable, but once they gel it's hard to get them back the way they were.

  Haruki Murakami

  Children, Smart, Heart

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Nov 10, 2014

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  There are two kinds of people: those who GIVE energy and those who
  DRAIN energy.

  Freeman A. Hrabowski III

  Two, People, Giving

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• ~I've never met a 2-year-old who is terrible. I'm so cool with every stage my daughter goes through. I just think she's amazing. I hope she's not looking at me thinking, Mom, are the terrible 30s coming on with you?~

  Katie Holmes

  Mom, Daughter, Thinking

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• ~I use humor instead of getting into that whole yes and no thing all the time. It's about just getting them to laugh rather than getting in power struggles.~

  Marcia Cross

  Struggle, Laughing, Yes And No

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• When talking w/kids its not what we say but how we say it! Think about your tone of voice & non-verbal communication.
  When talking to my kids I can get them to listen better by not talking down to them, but talking to them at eyeball level

  Kevin Heath

  Communication, Kids, Thinking

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• You never put her in your heart.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Heart

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• There are going to be moments today you don't like me. You'll get over it.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Today, Moments, Don't Like Me

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• When I say to you, sister-woman, 'You out of order', that isn't an attack on you. I know what I'm looking at. I'm looking at your life, and I see what's there.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Order, Knows

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• Why are you measuring? This is how you block, delay, hinder, obstruct and deny his place in the life as a father.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Father, Block, Delay

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• ~I don't always have a lot of energy, but my kids almost always revitalize me. Of course like any working mom, sometimes I'm guilt-ridden. I think I should be sitting down doing an educational computer game with Carrie or taking Ellie to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. These kids are such sponges, and I should be taking advantage of that.~

  Katie Couric

  Mom, Art, Educational

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• This is probably one of the most difficult challenges any parent could face - learning to love the other parent enough to make the children first.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Children, Challenges, Faces

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• A man can't be in the space where there is feminine rage and bitterness. He doesn't know how to navigate it.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Men, Space, Bitterness

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• Parents need to listen as much to their kids as they do to them: "The first duty of love is to listen."

  Paul Tillich

  Kids, Love Is, Needs

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• ~When Valentina was not even 1 month old, my aunt [gave me the best advice]: 'Put her to sleep yourself every night. Sing to her and cradle her in your arms and sit by her side - every night. Because one day you won't be able to, and it's going to happen really fast.~

  Salma Hayek

  Sleep, Aunt, Night

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• You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you.- Desmond Tutu
  In the end, kids won't remember that fancy toy or game you bought for them, they will remember the time you spent with them.

  Kevin Heath

  Kids, Games, Toys

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• The surest way to a child's heart is to spend time with them

  Kevin Heath

  Children, Heart, Way

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