Parental Quotes - Page 7

• Such a woman is called "Mother's FRIEND" always ready to give judicious Parental advice and living vicariously on the experience of others

  Eric Berne

  Mother, Giving, Advice

  Eric Berne (2011). “Games People Play: The Basic Handbook of Transactional Analysis”, p.78, Tantor eBooks

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• Education spending will be most effective if it relies on parental choice & private initiative -- the building blocks of success throughout our society.

  Milton Friedman

  Block, Choices, Our Society

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• Any time you need an expert parental hand- (Zarek) I’ll find Jericho. (Astrid) Um, could you at least wait until that thing’s housebroken? (Jericho)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Hands, Waiting, Experts

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• Rafe grinned. "So we are dating?" "No. You have to pass the parental exam first. It'll take you awhile to compile the data. They'd like it in triplicate." I turned to my parents. "We have Kenji. We have my cell phone. Since we aren't officially dating, I'm sure you'll agree that's all the protection we need." Dad chocked on his coffee.

  Kelley Armstrong

  Dad, Coffee, Phones

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• It's suspiciously quiet in here, and there's a Tod shaped dent in the bean bag. For the sake of both my sanity and my temper, I'm going to pretend I can't tell that you're in his lap, so could you pretend that this is still my house and you are still my daughter, and I'm within my parental rights to kick your boyfriend out after 11:00 p.m.?

  Rachel Vincent

  Daughter, Rights, House

  "Before I Wake". Book by Rachel Vincent, 2011.

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• Given the reality of unintended parenthood and parental unhappiness, one would think that women and men who make the decision not to have children - who are deliberate and thoughtful about the choice to bring another person into the world - would be seen as less selfish than those who unthinkingly have children. Yet the stigma remains.

  Jessica Valenti

  Children, Selfish, Thoughtful

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• Children don’t require of their parents a past and they find something faintly unbelievable, almost embarrassing, in parental claims to a prior existence.

  Kate Morton

  Children, Past, Parent

  Kate Morton (2013). “The Secret Keeper: A Novel”, p.26, Simon and Schuster

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• If advertising has invaded the judgment of children, it has also forced its way into the family, an insolent usurper of parental function, degrading parents to mere intermediaries between their children and the market. This indeed is a social revoluation in our time!

  Jules Henry

  Children, Business, Parent

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• The essential thing about mothers is that one needs to know that they are there, particularly at that age when, paradoxically, one is trying so hard to break away from parental influence.

  Margot Fonteyn

  Daughter, Mother, Age

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• It is only when parental feelings are ineffective or too ambivalent or when the mother's emotions are temporarily engaged elsewhere that children feel lost.

  Anna Freud

  Mother, Children, Feelings

  Anna Freud, Dorothy T. Burlingham (1967). “The Writings of Anna Freud: Indications for child analysis and other papers, 1945-1956”

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• And we have much better examples of the government not intervening to curtain parental rights, much worse abuse than a simple tap on the hand or a spank is perpetrated by many parents across the country, trust me.

  Sean Hannity

  Country, Simple, Rights

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Parents can learn that parental authority doesn't depend on knowing everything. The more you pretend, the more risk that it'll be traumatic and damaging to the kids and their relationship with you when they find out the truth.

  Seymour Papert

  Kids, Knowing Everything, Parent

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• Our leaders must remember that education doesn't begin with some isolated bureaucrat in Washington. It doesn't even begin with state or local officials. Education begins in the home, where it is a parental right and responsibility.

  Ronald Reagan

  Education, Home, Responsibility

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1982). “Ronald Reagan”

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• Because adoption meets the needs of children so successfully, and because there have long been waiting lists of couples hoping to adopt babies and children, it would seem that the solution for abused or neglected kids was obvious. But not to the do-gooders. To remove a child from an abusive parent, sever the parent's parental rights, and permit the child to be adopted by a couple who would give the child a loving home began to seem too 'judgmental.'

  Mona Charen

  Baby, Couple, Children

  Mona Charen (2006). “Do-Gooders: How Liberals Hurt Those They Claim to Help and the Rest of Us”, Sentinel

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• Technology must be implemented as part of a thoughtful, holistic approach to education transformation that includes teacher training, relevant curricula, parental involvement, and programs for children that fill unmet needs for basics like nutrition and health care.

  Bill Gates

  Teacher, Children, Thoughtful

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• A method of child-rearing is not--or should not be--a whim, a fashion or a shibboleth. It should derive from an understanding of the developing child, of his physical and mental equipment at any given stage, and, therefore, his readiness at any given stage to adapt, to learn, to regulate his behavior according to parental expectations.

  Selma Fraiberg

  Fashion, Children, Expectations

  Selma Fraiberg (1996). “The Magic Years: Understanding and Handling the Problems of Early Childhood”, p.75, Simon and Schuster

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• Setting off unknown to face the unknown, against parental opposition, with no money, friends, or influence, ran it a close second. Clichés like "blazing trails," flying over "shark-infected seas," "battling with monsoons," and "forced landings amongst savage tribes" became familiar diet for breakfast. Unknown names became household words, whilst others, those of the failures, were forgotten utterly except by kith and kin.

  Amy Johnson

  Sharks, Sea, Names

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• I'd like to promote lots of things. I'd like to promote elimination of drug prohibition. I'd like to promote parental choice in education through vouchers. Those are two things I think are very urgent and important. They're both more important than the harm which Social Security will do.

  Milton Friedman

  Thinking, Two, Choices

  Source: rightwingnews.com

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• If you really want to drop the guilt you will have to drop your parental voices within, the priestly voices within. You will have to get rid of your parents and your conditioning. Life has been in such a trap up to now that even a small child starts feeling guilty. We have not yet been able to develop an education which can help people to grow without feeling guilty. And unless that education happens man will remain ill, ill at ease.

  Rajneesh

  Children, Men, Voice

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• I guess on a base level that's one of the first parental instincts that you have with children in Australia is learn to swim. Not only learn to swim but learn to swim strong.

  Eric Bana

  Strong, Children, Australia

  "Eric Bana Interview, Hanna". Interview, www.moviesonline.ca.

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• Being a father is the hardest job on the planet, because we don't have parental instincts like women have. You have to learn how to be a father before you even become a father, from a very young age. It's necessary to override what we're told in society a father should be, like if your son falls and scrapes his knee, you got to be tough. Baseball and all that are cool, but it's the tenderness and interactions that are really important. Boys are different; we have to impart that sensibility and that tenderness to them.

  Malik Yusef

  Baseball, Jobs, Father

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Dickens is a much misunderstood and mis-approached writer, in that he tends to be read, particularly in the twentieth century, as a social commentator - like the great Victorians, a realist in his way. But he isn't at all like that. His genre is actually more like a fairy tale - weird transformations, long voyages from which people come back altered, parental mysteries, semi-magical twists.

  Martin Amis

  Genre Is, Long, People

  "New New Yorker Martin Amis Talks Terrorism, Pornography, Idyllic Brooklyn and American Decline". Interview with David Wallace-Wells, www.vulture.com. July 22, 2012.

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• Parental trust is extremely important in the guidance of adolescent children as they get further and further away from the direct supervision of their parents and teachers. I don't mean that trust without clear guidance is enough, but guidance without trust is worthless.

  Benjamin Spock

  Teacher, Children, Mean

  Benjamin Spock, M.D. (1985). “Raising Children in a Difficult Time”, Pocket

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• People need a parental divine love which will attend to them above all else, no matter what happens

  Masahisa Goi

  People, Needs, Matter

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• God not only loves his people but delights in each one of us. He takes great pleasure in us. He's actually blessed in keeping and delivering us. I see this kind of parental pleasure in my wife, Gwen, whenever one of our grandchildren calls. Gwen lights up like a Christmas tree when she has one of our dear little ones on the line. Nothing can get her off the phone. Even if I told her the President was at our door, she'd shoo me away and keep talking. How could I ever accuse my heavenly Father of delighting in me less than I do in my own offspring?

  David Wilkerson

  Father, Blessed, Grandchildren

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