Raising Children Quotes - Page 7

• I think that poetry is perfect for women raising children, with just bits of time and such need to connect to other women out of the isolation of motherhood.

  Francesca Lia Block

  Children, Motherhood, Thinking

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• Praising children’s intelligence harms their motivation and it harms their performance.

  Carol S. Dweck

  Children, Motivation, Praise

  Carol S. Dweck (2006). “Mindset: The New Psychology of Success”, p.175, Random House

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• What you discovered about yourself in raising children wasn't always agreeable or attractive.

  Jonathan Franzen

  Children, Attractive, About Yourself

  Jonathan Franzen (2001). “The Corrections: A Novel”, p.263, Macmillan

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• Rather than dwelling on the past, we should make the most of today, of the here and now, doing all we can to provide pleasant memories for the future…If you are still in the process of raising children be aware that the tiny fingerprints that show up on almost every newly cleaned surface, the toys scattered about the house, the piles and piles of laundry to be tackled, will disappear all too soon, and that you will, to your surprise, miss them, profoundly.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Children, Memories, Past

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• When my kids become wild and unruly, I use a nice, safe playpen. When they're finished, I climb out.

  Erma Bombeck

  Funny, Family, Mom

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• A grandchild is God's reward for raising a child.

  Bill Cosby

  Funny, Children, Humor

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• Perhaps it takes courage to raise children.

  John Steinbeck

  Mother, Children, Parenting

  John Steinbeck (2002). “East of Eden”, p.132, Penguin

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• Perhaps the soundest advice for parents is: Lighten up. People have been raising children for approximately as long as there have been people.

  George Will

  Children, Long, People

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• You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.

  Franklin P. Adams

  Patience, Baby, Funny Inspirational

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• Life affords no greater responsibility, no greater privilege, than the raising of the next generation

  C. Everett Koop

  Love, Teacher, Children

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• It is one thing to show your child the way, and a harder thing to then stand out of it

  Robert Breault

  Family, Children, Parenting

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• Playing golf is like raising children. You keep thinking you'll do better next time.

  Charles E. McKenzie

  Children, Golf, Thinking

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• Years ago someone wrote [about me]: 'She characterizes Molly Weasley as a mother who is only at home looking after the children.' I was deeply offended, because I until a year before that had also been such a mother who was at home all the time taking care of her child [...] What has lesser status and is more difficult than raising a child? And what is more important?

  J. K. Rowling

  Wise, Mother, Witty

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• If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.

  Abigail Van Buren

  Inspirational, Motivational, Family

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• Raising a child is a little like Picasso's work; in the beginning he did very conventional representational things. Cubism came after he had the rules down pat.

  Anna Quindlen

  Children, Littles, Cubism

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• Training a puppy is like raising a child. Every single interaction is a training opportunity.

  Ian Dunbar

  Children, Opportunity, Training

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• Having and raising children is doing something with your life! ... And I have to say that having your kids is one of the greatest things you can do.

  Patricia Heaton

  Children, Kids, Abortion

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• Raising children with an emphasis on intrinsic rewards is not a technique, a method or a trick to get them to do what the parent wants them to by subtler means, but a way of life, a way of living with children with real respect for their intelligence and for their being.

  Mamie Van Doren

  Children, Real, Mean

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• I got kind of burned out, so I moved to Florida. I was down there for 10 or 12 years, raising children.

  Lee Majors

  Children, Florida, Years

  "Man in a 'Million'". Interview with Terry Pace, www.timesdaily.com. July 21, 2005.

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• As a mom, I know that raising children is the hardest job there is.

  Hilary Rosen

  Mom, Jobs, Children

  "Hilary Rosen Apologizes To Ann Romney, Calls For End To 'Faux War' Against Moms" by Jennifer Bendery, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 12, 2012.

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• The first and continuing argument for the curtailment of working hours and the raising of the minimum age was that education was necessary in a democracy and working children could not attend school.

  Grace Abbott

  Children, School, Democracy

  Grace Abbott (1968). “The Child and the State: Legal status in the family. Apprenticeship and child labor”

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• The end product of child raising is not the child but the parent.

  Frank Pittman

  Children, Parent, Being A Father

  "Man Enough: Fathers, Sons, and the Search for Masculinity". Book by Frank Pittman, www.today.com. 1993.

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• Women may give lip service to wanting husbands who take on an equal role in raising children, but many will pull rank when an important decision, like how to discipline or what baby sitter to hire, has to be made.

  Pepper Schwartz

  Baby, Husband, Children

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• When it comes to raising children, I believe in give and take. I give orders and they take 'em.

  Bernie Mac

  Inspirational, Children, Believe

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• Raising children is like making biscuits: it is as easy to raise a big batch as one, while you have your hands in the dough.

  E. W. Howe

  Children, Parenting, Hands

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