- What a kid I got, I told him about the birds and the bees and he told me about the butcher and my wife. Rodney Dangerfield
- The quickest way for a parent to get a child’s attention is to sit down and look comfortable. Lane Olinghouse
- A mother’s arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them. Victor Hugo
- “Do not give up when touching the Door of Awareness, you meet its Mindfulness Magic, but let it open wide giving your family a possibility to Create Reality of Your Dreams.” ― Natasa Pantovic Nuit, Conscious Parenting: Mindful Living Course for Parents
- “It must be this overarching commitment to what is really an abstraction, to one’s children right or wrong, that can be even more fierce than the commitment to them as explicit, difficult people, and that can consequently keep you devoted to them when as individuals they disappoint. On my part it was this broad covenant with children-in-theory that I may have failed to make and to which I was unable to resort when Kevin finally tested my maternal ties to a perfect mathematical limit on Thursday. I didn’t vote for parties, but for candidates. My opinions were as ecumenical as my larder, then still chock full of salsa verde from Mexico City, anchovies from Barcelona, lime leaves from Bangkok. I had no problem with abortion but abhorred capital punishment, which I suppose meant that I embraced the sanctity of life only in grown-ups. My environmental habits were capricious; I’d place a brick in our toilet tank, but after submitting to dozens of spit-in-the-air showers with derisory European water pressure, I would bask under a deluge of scalding water for half an hour. My closet wafter with Indian saris, Ghanaian wraparounds, and Vietnamese au dais. My vocabulary was peppered with imports — gemutlich, scusa, hugge, mzungu. I so mixed and matched the planet that you sometimes worried I had no commitments to anything or anywhere, though you were wrong; my commitments were simply far-flung and obscenely specific.By the same token, I could not love a child; I would have to love this one. I was connected to the world by a multitude of threads, you by a few sturdy guide ropes. It was the same with patriotism: You loved the idea of the United States so much more powerfully than the country itself, and it was thanks to your embrace of the American aspiration that you could overlook the fact that your fellow Yankee parents were lining up overnight outside FAO Schwartz with thermoses of chowder to buy a limited release of Nintendo. In the particular dwells the tawdry. In the conceptual dwells the grand, the transcendent, the everlasting. Earthly countries and single malignant little boys can go to hell; the idea of countries and the idea of sons triumph for eternity. Although neither of us ever went to church, I came to conclude that you were a naturally religious person.” ― Lionel Shriver, We Need to Talk About Kevin
- “I think that the best thing we can do for our children is to allow them to do things for themselves, allow them to be strong, allow them to experience life on their own terms, allow them to take the subway… let them be better people, let them believe more in themselves.” ― C. JoyBell C.
- Modern education is premised strongly on materialistic values. It is vital that when educating our children’s brains that we do not neglect to educate their hearts, a key element of which has to be the nurturing of our compassionate nature. 14th Dalai Lama
- “To unite this whole world with the thread of acceptance and harmony, may sound like a titanic task, but all it takes is one generation of conscientious and responsible citizens in each nation – if only these handful of young members of the society around the world take up the responsibility to raise, not citizens of a nation, but citizens of a planet, then no force in the world can keep the process of unification of humans manifesting in front of our eyes.” ― Abhijit Naskar, Citizens of Peace: Beyond the Savagery of Sovereignty
- Mothers are the only ones that think nothing is beyond their control when it comes to their children. Ali Fazal
- I haven’t talked to my sons for a few days so I changed the Hulu, Netflix and Amazon passwords. I heard from all 3 of them within 20 minutes. Ursula (@3sunzzz)
- We have to prepare the child for the path, not the path for the child. Tim Elmore
- Snowplow parents prepare the road for kids. Responsible parents prepare kids for the road. Resilience is built not by eliminating struggle, but by normalizing it. Teach kids to see obstacles as temporary hurdles. Adam Grant
- “There is nothing glorious about creating life out of passionate penetration. Even the animals can do that. The real glory comes when the life you create becomes the help in the lives of countless other humans.” ― Abhijit Naskar, Human Making is Our Mission: A Treatise on Parenting
- “Children are compassionate by nature. Engaging their compassion with communication and connection instead of igniting their self-preservation with threats and punishments is not only more effecting in guiding their behavior, it’s also more effective in growing their humanity.” ― L.R. Knost
- “Children force parents to go out looking for a specific pulse, a gaze, a rhythm, the right way of telling the story, knowing that stories don’t fix anything or save anyone but maybe make the world both more complex and more tolerable. And sometimes, just sometimes, more beautiful. Stories are a way of subtracting the future from the past, the only way of finding clarity in hindsight.” ― Valeria Luiselli, Lost Children Archive
- Parenthood is the opiate of the masses. Chuck Palahniuk
- Mothers try to slow her sons manhood. Fathers try to speed his sons manhood. Alex Sauer
- “You don’t stop dreaming and going after what you want when you have kids, you go harder. It is a lot easier for your kids to listen to you when your actions precede your words. When they see you moving forward and overcoming the various obstacles that come your way.” ― Sope Agbelusi
- You may give them your love but not your thoughts, for they have their own thoughts. Kahlil Gibran (The Prophet)
- “I AM A CHILD, NOT A SINK FOR YOUR FRUSTRATIONS” ― Vineet Raj Kapoor
- It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength. Maya Angelou
- “Father has a strengthening character like the sun and mother has a soothing temper like the moon.” ― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words
- “It made me realize that the most important part of parenting, relationships, pretty much anything is just actually being there.” ― Ali Wong, Dear Girls: Intimate Tales, Untold Secrets, & Advice for Living Your Best Life
- “What is the job of a parent, but to teach a child she has worth so that one day she can transform herself into whatever she wants.” ― Stacey Lee, The Downstairs Girl
- Most children threaten at times to run away from home. This is the only thing that keeps some parents going. Phyllis Diller
- Look at things in terms of challenges rather than problems. Maxime Lagacé
- Look at things in terms of growth rather than perfection. Thibaut
- “Parenting is the privilege of constant failure… and being loved anyway.” ― Damon Thueson
- Parenthood is a great way to develop a leader’s mentality. Whatever the circumstances, there’s always one pair of eyes looking up to you. Johnny Uzan
- If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent. Bette Davis