Parenting - Dual-Language Quotes That Speak to the Heart

Everyone says that love requires the utmost honesty, but that's not entirely true. Once I knew that my father was suffering for my sake—really suffering—I learned that love, especially the parental kind, requires the heartwarming sacrifice that can only accompany fake enthusiasm. — Sarah Vowell Take the...

Guidance, also a part of helping the infant and child to develop and grow, may include advice, assistance, and any other form of help, verbal or non-verbal. It also includes modeling and teaching appropriate and healthy social — Charles L. Whitfield Healing the...

Children are not coloring books. We cannot fill them with our favorite colors. — Khaled Hosseini The Kite Runner

I think all men get a macho rise out of the idea of creating a baby on some level, but that doesn't mean they're happy when the big belly and dirty diapers come around. — Lisa Renee Jones Escaping Reality

On the other couch a woman sits with a young boy looking through a picture book about Babar the Elephant. When I find a magazine and I lean back to start reading it, I can see the woman watching me out of the corner of her eye. She moves closer to the child and she leans over and kisses his forehead. I know why she does it and i don't blame her. — James Frey A Million Little...

People say a mother is only as happy as her least happy child. But what if the state of that child's happiness has become a mystery? What if that child is no longer a child but a young man who has...

The recent spate of magazines for "parents" {i.e., mothers} bombard the anxiety-induced mothers of America with reassurances that they can {after a $100,000 raise and a personality transplant} produce...

A stodgy parent is no fun at all. What a child wants and deserves is a parent who is SPARKY

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

We are all, I suppose, beholden to our parents - the question is, how much?

We pretend that we know our children, because it's easier than admitting the truth--from the minute that cord is cut, they are strangers. It's far easier to tell yourself your daughter is still a...

Parenting is really just a matter of tracking, of hoping your kids do not get so far ahead you can no longer see their next moves.

I would have given anything to keep her little. They outgrow us so much faster than we outgrow them.Brian Fitzgerald, talking about his children.

{24/7} once you sign on to be a mother, that's the only shift they offer.

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...

In fact, he couldn't be that kind of dad anymore. That time was over. It was as if God would suddenly decide to be God again several quadrillion years after he created the world. He could not only dip...

You can't predict the outcome. You can't raise a child and then tell them what to think.

Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.

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If I turned towards books, it was because they were the only sanctuary I knew, one I needed in order...

We all had to pay, but not for the crimes we were accused of. There were other scores to settle.

Hope for some means its loss for others; when the hopeless regain some hope, those in power--the...

The Red Lion was a four-ale bar with a handful of lowbrowed sons of toil who looked as though they...

if you don't understand something, you can't approximate it. You're really just guessing.

Why are they going to disappear him? I don't know. It doesn't make sense. It isn't even good...

Keep in mind that when we talk of a great painting we are not really talking about anything great....

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