Parenting Quotes - Page 19

• ~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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• Everyone should have kids. They are the greatest joy in the world. But they are also terrorists. You'll realize this as soon as they are born and they start using sleep deprivation to break you.

  Ray Romano

  Funny, Children, Sleep

  Ray Romano (1999). “Everything and a Kite”

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• Respect the child. Be not too much his parent. Trespass not on his solitude.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Education, Children, Solitude

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2004). “A Dream Too Wild: Emerson Meditations for Every Day of the Year”, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations

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• If we treat people as they are, we make them worse. If we treat people as they ought to be, we help them become what they are capable of becoming.

  Haim Ginott

  Inspirational, Hope, Wisdom

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• Don't let the sun go down without saying thank you to someone, and without admitting to yourself that absolutely no one gets this far alone.

  Stephen King

  Admitting, Uptight, Sun

  Commencement Address, University of Maine at Orono, May 07, 2005.

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• Giving kids whatever they ask for is disastrous parenting. There's no sense of something earned. I'm sorry, but when you're 12, you don't need a new cell phone every few months just because a new one comes out.

  Ewan McGregor

  Sorry, Kids, Phones

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• The secret to success, to parenting, to life, is to not count up the cost. Don't focus on all the steps it will take. Don't stare into the abyss at the giant leap it will take. That view will keep you from taking the next small step.

  Regina Brett

  Views, Focus, Secret

  Regina Brett (2010). “Life's Little Detours: 50 Lessons to Find and Hold onto Happiness”, p.11, Hachette UK

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• Relationships are complicated no matter what style of parenting you choose.

  Mayim Bialik

  Style, Matter, Complicated

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• All mothers think their children are oaks, but the world never lacks for cabbages.

  Robertson Davies

  Mother, Children, Thinking

  Robertson Davies (1976). “World of wonders”, Penguin Books, 1977

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• When I stopped seeing my mother with the eyes of a child, I saw the woman who helped me give birth to myself.

  Nancy Friday

  Relationship, Mom, Mother Daughter

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• Mother: the most beautiful word on the lips of mankind.

  Khalil Gibran

  Beautiful, Mom, Mother

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• The love of a parent for a child is the love that should grow towards separation.

  Khalil Gibran

  Children, Separation, Should

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