Parenting Quotes - Page 18

• A man can't be in the space where there is feminine rage and bitterness. He doesn't know how to navigate it.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Men, Space, Bitterness

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• This is probably one of the most difficult challenges any parent could face - learning to love the other parent enough to make the children first.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Children, Challenges, Faces

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• Why are you measuring? This is how you block, delay, hinder, obstruct and deny his place in the life as a father.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Father, Block, Delay

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• You are demonstrating to men that they can come back and get their kids. All of those fatherless sons and daddy-less daughters and the men who didn't know how to go back, you are demonstrating to the world that they can.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Daughter, Kids, Son

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• You never put her in your heart.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Heart

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• There are going to be moments today you don't like me. You'll get over it.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Today, Moments, Don't Like Me

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• When I say to you, sister-woman, 'You out of order', that isn't an attack on you. I know what I'm looking at. I'm looking at your life, and I see what's there.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Order, Knows

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• ~I don't always have a lot of energy, but my kids almost always revitalize me. Of course like any working mom, sometimes I'm guilt-ridden. I think I should be sitting down doing an educational computer game with Carrie or taking Ellie to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. These kids are such sponges, and I should be taking advantage of that.~

  Katie Couric

  Mom, Art, Educational

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• ~When Valentina was not even 1 month old, my aunt [gave me the best advice]: 'Put her to sleep yourself every night. Sing to her and cradle her in your arms and sit by her side - every night. Because one day you won't be able to, and it's going to happen really fast.~

  Salma Hayek

  Sleep, Aunt, Night

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• ~I'm not someone who [lives] like, 'OK, this is a museum and you can't sit here and you can't touch this and everything has to be put in its place - [the kids] live here as much as we do. You come into our house and a giant elephant and lion are welcoming you. We have toys and things everywhere.~

  Heidi Klum

  Kids, Museums, Elephants

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• ~Before you have kids, when you're on a plane and there's a screaming kid, all you can think is, Give me earplugs! As soon as I became a mom, though, I got it. You find yourself asking, 'What can I do? You want me to hold him?' Because you think about the time your kids was screaming, and there was the one parent who looked at you and smiled. And that compassion was everything.~

  Mariska Hargitay

  Mom, Kids, Thinking

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• ~I use humor instead of getting into that whole yes and no thing all the time. It's about just getting them to laugh rather than getting in power struggles.~

  Marcia Cross

  Struggle, Laughing, Yes And No

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• ~I've never met a 2-year-old who is terrible. I'm so cool with every stage my daughter goes through. I just think she's amazing. I hope she's not looking at me thinking, Mom, are the terrible 30s coming on with you?~

  Katie Holmes

  Mom, Daughter, Thinking

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• ~Trust me when I tell you I'm on my girls. And every time I am, I know from the outside it looks like I'm an overbearing, controlling parent. But I don't think we are responsible to anybody but our kids and ourselves.~

  Brooke Shields

  Girl, Kids, Thinking

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• ~I'm really clear about my priority in life - it's being a mom ... I love doing films, but I wouldn't like to do that more than I'd like to be my daughter's mother.~

  Teri Hatcher

  Mom, Daughter, Mother

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• ~As a mom, you have to look at how much time you're spending with your kids. There is nothing you will regret more in your life - nothing - than not being present for your children.~

  Jamie Lee Curtis

  Mom, Children, Regret

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• ~Sometimes, when I want to take on the world, I try to remember that it's just as important to sit down and ask my son how he's feeling or talk to him about life.~

  Angelina Jolie

  Inspiring, Mom, Mother

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• When your kids come home, they don't necessarily want to talk to you. They just want to know you're standing there, ready to talk.

  Meryl Streep

  Home, Kids, Want

  "Oprah Talks to Meryl Streep, Nicole Kidman and Julianne Moore". www.oprah.com. 2003.

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• ~[My daughter is] very artistic, but she's also a perfectionist. I feel a little bad: That's the part I see in her that's like me - and you don't want them to have that at age 5.~

  Courteney Cox

  Daughter, Age, Want

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• ~I used to think, What if there's an interesting movie and it conflicts with the boys going to a new school for the first time?... Well, I didn't anticipate that was going to be about a two-second dilemma. I didn't know the choices would be so easy to make.~

  Jodie Foster

  School, Boys, Thinking

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• ~There are moments when I feel like I have a looong road ahead of me, with college and dating and driving and all of that. But then I realize it just means that I have so much time left to enjoy my kids. And it really does go by so quickly.~

  Geena Davis

  Mean, Kids, College

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• ~I think what surprised me the most about motherhood, as sentimental as it sounds, is how much I love my kids. I mean, I just can't believe it. It's like a whole new dimension in emotion that I've never experienced.~

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Believe, Pregnancy, Mean

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• ~I got pregnant, and I was like, 'Oh God, it worked! Oh no!' Chris [Ivery, her husband] and I were super happy, then I got terrified! Will I know how to do everything right? Of course, nobody does everything right, but as long as your baby is the priority, that's the best you can do.~

  Ellen Pompeo

  Baby, Husband, Long

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• Mann
  There are two kinds of people: those who GIVE energy and those who
  DRAIN energy.

  Freeman A. Hrabowski III

  Two, People, Giving

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• If you want to move people, it has to be toward a vision that's positive for
  them, that taps important values, that gets them something they desire and
  it has to be presented in a compelling way so that they feel inspired to
  follow.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Moving, Important Values, People

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