Parenting Quotes - Page 10

• It behooves a father to be blameless if he expects his child to be.

  Homer

  Children, Dad, Father

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• Parents are not interested in justice, they're interested in peace and quiet.

  Bill Cosby

  Family, Justice, Judging

  Twitter post from Nov 03, 2009

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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, Hands, Biscuits

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• One thing I know for sure about raising children is that every single day a kid needs discipline.... But also every single day a kid needs a break.

  Anne Lamott

  Children, Kids, Discipline

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• It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

  Family, Children, Should

  "My Mother's House". Book by Sidonie Gabrielle Colette, 1922.

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• I feel very blessed to have two wonderful, healthy children who keep me completely grounded, sane and throw up on my shoes just before I go to an awards show just so I know to keep it real.

  Reese Witherspoon

  Children, Real, Blessed

  "Walk The Line - Reese Witherspoon interview" by Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• The greatest tragedy of the family is the unlived lives of the parents.

  Carl Jung

  Parent, Tragedy, Memories Dreams Reflections

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• If a child lives with acceptance and friendship, he learns to find love in the world

  Dorothy Nolte

  Children, Acceptance, Finding Love

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• There is no greater good in all the world than motherhood. The influence of a mother in the lives of her children is beyond calculation.

  James E. Faust

  Life, Mothers Day, Mom

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• In general my children refuse to eat anything that hasn't danced in television.

  Erma Bombeck

  Funny, Family, Children

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• A truly appreciative child will break, lose, spoil, or fondle to death any really successful gift within a matter of minutes.

  Russell Lynes

  Children, Successful, Matter

  Russell Lynes (1991). “Life in the slow lane: observations on art, architecture, manners and other such spectator sports”, Harpercollins

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• Sex education may be a good idea in the schools, but I don't believe the kids should be given homework.

  Bill Cosby

  Education, Sex, Believe

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• My parents were neither very poor nor conspicuously honest.

  Mark Twain

  Parent, Honest, Poor

  Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.26, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• I don't think my parents liked me. They put a live teddy bear in my crib.

  Woody Allen

  Funny, Humor, Thinking

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• ~Wyatt [my adopted son] is definitely all mine. Little souls find their way to you whether they're from your womb or someone else's.~

  Sheryl Crow

  Son, Soul, Littles

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• From where can your authority and license as a parent come from, when you who are old, do worse things?

  Juvenal

  Parent, Authority, License

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• No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Beauty, Mother, Children

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Vicente de los Rios, Quixote de la Mancha (don, fict.name.) (1819). “Don Quixote de la Mancha. Tr. by C. Jarvis”, p.199

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• Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They came through you but not from you and though they are with you yet they belong not to you.

  Khalil Gibran

  Daughter, Mother, Children

  The Prophet "On Children" (1923)

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• A boy or girl who knows that love abounds at home will not resent well-deserved punishment. One who is unloved or ignored will hate any form of discipline.

  James Dobson

  Girl, Hate, Home

  James C. Dobson (1997). “Solid Answers: America's Foremost Family Counselor Responds to Tough Questions Facing Today's Families”, Tyndale House Pub

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• Never have children, only grandchildren.

  Gore Vidal

  Children, Humorous, Kids

  Gore Vidal (1995). “Palimpsest: a memoir”

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• Everything is funny, as long as it's happening to somebody else.

  Will Rogers

  Funny, Hilarious, Political Will

  The Illiterate Digest "Warning to Jokers: Lay Off the Prince" (1924)

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• Parenting @ a higher level of consciousness:1st love self so deeply that when ur child misbehaves U do not have 2 react @LoveNever_Fails
  When you give a little of yourself to a child, you give a little of yourself to their future!

  Kevin Heath

  Children, Self, Giving

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• To nourish children and raise them against odds is in any time, any place, more valuable than to fix bolts in cars or design nuclear weapons.

  Marilyn French

  Family, Mom, Mother

  Marilyn French (2013). “Her Mother's Daughter: A Novel”, p.1070, Open Road Media

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• ~You know how parents rattle on to you about, 'Oh, you won't believe your life will never be the same,' and you think, Why can't these people just get over it? All they're doing is yakking about their kids. It's such a bore. And then you have kids and you just want to do the same thing.~

  Uma Thurman

  Believe, Kids, Thinking

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• We change our behavior when the pain of staying the same becomes greater than the pain of changing. Consequences give us the pain that motivates us to change.

  Henry Cloud

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  FaceBook post by Henry Cloud from Dec 22, 2016

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