Parenting Quotes - Page 25

• The very best reason parents are so special . . . is because we are the holders of a priceless gift, a gift we received from countless generations we never knew, a gift that only we now possess and only we can give to our children. That unique gift, of course, is the gift of ourselves. Whatever we can do to give that gift, and to help others receive it, is worth the challenge of all our human endeavor.

  Fred Rogers

  Children, Helping Others, Unique

  Fred Rogers (2006). “Many Ways to Say I Love You: Wisdom for Parents and Children from Mister Rogers”, Hyperion

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• Youth should stay away from all evil, especially things that produce wickedness and ill-will.

  Aristotle

  Ill Will, Evil, Wickedness

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• When I was a young man, I didn't think about having a family. My wife and I were too poor to have babies. Then all of a sudden, one came along and scared the hell out of us because we had no money. Once the baby arrives, you make do somehow. You fall in love with the baby and life adjusts itself. You find you don't need as much money as you thought. When that happens, you can ask the questions that should have come before the baby.

  Ray Bradbury

  Baby, Falling In Love, Men

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• Women are individuals in parenting, and why not?

  Erica Jong

  Why Not, Individual

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• The American Dream is not to own your own home, but to get your kids out of it.

  Dick Armey

  Funny, Dream, Home

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• We're living in a time when parenting is not at all mirroring the way I was parented. For me, I just followed my parents around on their errands; when they were busy on the phone, I was quiet. It's a different kettle of fish these days: They run the house, and you listen to their music, and you go to their appointments.

  Edie Falco

  Running, Phones, House

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• It is the common error of builders and parents to follow some plan they think beautiful (and perhaps is so) without considering that nothing is beautiful that is misplaced.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Beautiful, Thinking, Errors

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• In terms of you happiness, in terms of the matters that make you proud or sad, nothing-I repeat, nothing-will have so profound an effect on you as the way your children turn out. You will either rejoice and boast of their accomplishments or you will weep, head in hands, bereft and forlorn, if they become a disappointment or an embarrassment to you.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Children, Disappointment, Hands

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• If [Sean] doesn't see me a few days or if I'm really, really busy, and I just sort of get a glimpse of him, or if I'm feeling depressed without him even seeing me, he sort of picks up on it. And he starts getting that way. So I can no longer afford to have artistic depressions. If I start wallowing in a depression, he'll start coming down with stuff, so I'm sort of obligated to keep up. And sometimes I can't, because something will make me depressed and sure as hell he'll get a cold or trap his finger in a door or something, and so now I have sort of more reason to stay healthy or bright.

  John Lennon

  Doors, Healthy, Feelings

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• My kids love it. I thought I was the coolest dad in the world when I got to be in a Bond film, but 'Harry Potter', too? Well, I think I qualify for a medal for exceptional parenting or something, don't you?

  Robbie Coltraine

  Dad, Kids, Thinking

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• I wanted to give five solid years of being there all the time (with Sean). I hadn't seen my first son Julian grow up, and now there's a 17-year-old man on the phone talking about motorbikes. No matter what artistic gains I get, or gold records, if I can't make a success out of my relationship with the people I love, then everything else is bullsh*t.

  John Lennon

  Growing Up, Son, Men

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• Don't quarrel with your parents even if you are on the right.

  Plato

  Parent, Quarrels, Ifs

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• Parents are key when it comes to keeping kids off drugs. Good parenting is the best anti-drug we have.

  Mel Carnahan

  Kids, Keys, Drug

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• Alas, regardless of their doom, the little victims play! No sense have they of ills to come nor care beyond today.

  Thomas Gray

  Children, Play, Care

  'Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College' (1747) l. 51

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• Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.

  Denis Waitley

  Family, Children, Giving

  "Every Child Has a Thinking Style: A Guide to Recognizing and Fostering Each Child's Natural Gifts and Preferences - to Help Them Learn, Thrive, and Achieve". Book by Lanna Nakone, April 4, 2006.

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• I'll show up at every classroom open house and teacher conference,' she said, now in a voice that was almost frightening in its intensity. 'I'll bake brownies. My child will have new clothes. Her shoes will fit. She'll get her shots, and she'll get her braces. We'll start a college fund next week. I'll tell her I love her every damn day.' If that wasn't a great plan for being a good mother, I couldn't imagine what a better one could be

  Charlaine Harris

  Mother, Teacher, Children

  Charlaine Harris (2009). “Dead and Gone: A Sookie Stackhouse Novel”, p.67, Penguin

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• Breasts are a scandal because they shatter the border between motherhood and sexuality

  Iris Marion Young

  Motherhood, Borders, Scandal

  Iris Marion Young (2005). “On Female Body Experience: "Throwing Like a Girl" and Other Essays”, p.88, Oxford University Press

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• My father wasn't really involved and my mom is the light in my life.

  Marion Jones

  Mom, Mother, Father

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You want to mess up the minds of your children? Here's how - guaranteed! Rear them in a legalistic, tight context of external religion, where performance is more important than reality. Fake your faith. Sneak around and pretend your spirituality. Train your children to do the same. Embrace a long list of do's and don'ts publicly but hypocritically practice them privately... yet never own up to the fact that its hypocrisy. Act one way but live another. And you can count on it - emotional and spiritual damage will occur.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Spiritual, Children, Reality

  Charles R. Swindoll (2006). “The Grace Awakening: Believing in Grace Is One Thing. Living it Is Another.”, p.90, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I'm a parent, especially when you've had the intense parenting the way I had. It's all in the bank. It's all in the great experience bank. Those are your secrets. That's the stuff that makes your work rich, that's what you dip into.

  Hector Elizondo

  Secret, Dip, Stuff

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• No blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son.

  Abraham Verghese

  Heart, Son, Spiteful

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• As soon as we find ourselves working at being indispensable, rigging up a pattern of vulnerability in our loved ones, we know that our love has taken the socially sanctioned form of egotism.

  Germaine Greer

  Love, Taken, Patterns

  Germaine Greer (1972). “The female eunuch”

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• When correcting a child, the goal is to apply light, not heat.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Children, Light, Discipline

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• To you who are parents, I say, show love to your children. You know you love them, but make certain they know it as well. They are so precious. Let them know. Call upon our Heavenly Father for help as you care for their needs each day and as you deal with the challenges which inevitably come with parenthood. You need more than your own wisdom in rearing them.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Children, Father, Challenges

  FaceBook post by Thomas S Monson from Mar 27, 2015

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• I would have made a terrible parent. The first time my child didn't do what I wanted, I'd kill him.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Children, Firsts, Made

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