Parenting Quotes - Page 24

• Family is a collective expression of individual perspective-a living work of art.

  Wes Fesler

  Art, Expression, Perspective

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• I think that the ideal of parenting can make people unhappy. It's that this lie that they're being told by society that parenting is one thing - and when parenting is something completely different - that's what makes them unhappy.

  Jessica Valenti

  Lying, Thinking, People

  "'Why Have Kids?' author on parenting's contradictions". Interview with Sharon Jayson, www.usatoday.com. September 3, 2012.

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• The American Dream is not to own your own home, but to get your kids out of it.

  Dick Armey

  Funny, Dream, Home

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• I had lots of hurt and lots of pain, lots of woundedness, bruises, broken heartedness in my life. I was abused sexually by my father, abused mentally, emotionally. My mom didn't know what to do about it, and she was being hurt in the process. So she just didn't deal with it. And I can guarantee you, just because you don't deal with something, that doesn't make it go away.

  Joyce Meyer

  Mom, Hurt, Pain

  "The Larry King Live Show", edition.cnn.com. May 19, 2005.

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• Youth should stay away from all evil, especially things that produce wickedness and ill-will.

  Aristotle

  Ill Will, Evil, Wickedness

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• I grew up with no money. My kids will grow up with a lot of money and so it's really important to me, and it will always be a part of my parenting, to keep them conscientious and connected socially to other people.

  Ryan Phillippe

  Growing Up, Kids, People

  "Ryan Phillippe and Terrance Howard talk Crash". Movie Web interview, movieweb.com. May 5, 2005.

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• I'm hosting weekend retreats all over America. It is like a 24-hour slumber party for moms. We laugh, eat, play games, get massages, win prizes, talk about parenting and even cry a bit.

  Lisa Whelchel

  Mom, Party, Weekend

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

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• The saddest things we fail at are fun things we never get to do, so in your busy day be sure to plan fun things too.

  Wes Fesler

  Fun, Busy, Failing

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• Every happy home has a foundation of love and a framework of support

  Wes Fesler

  Home, Support, Foundation

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• I suppose that every parent loves his child, but I know, without any suppossing, that in a large number of homes the love is hidden behind authority, or its expression is crowded out by daily duties and cares

  Abbott Eliot Kittredge

  Children, Home, Love Is

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• A family portrait is only complete with love to fill it's frame.

  Wes Fesler

  Portraits

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• Women are individuals in parenting, and why not?

  Erica Jong

  Why Not, Individual

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• We're living in a time when parenting is not at all mirroring the way I was parented. For me, I just followed my parents around on their errands; when they were busy on the phone, I was quiet. It's a different kettle of fish these days: They run the house, and you listen to their music, and you go to their appointments.

  Edie Falco

  Running, Phones, House

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• My kids love it. I thought I was the coolest dad in the world when I got to be in a Bond film, but 'Harry Potter', too? Well, I think I qualify for a medal for exceptional parenting or something, don't you?

  Robbie Coltraine

  Dad, Kids, Thinking

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• Parenting classes should be mandatory, whether you are adopting or not, and would include an evaluation of your current physical, mental and financial state as well as how ready you are to take on the rigors of parenthood. Our children are our most precious natural resource, and there is absolutely no other way to parent but to put them first.

  Dale Archer

  Children, Class, Inspire

  "Not Everyone Deserves to Have Children" by Dale Archer, www.foxnews.com. April 15, 2010.

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• Slow parents understand that childrearing should not be a cross between a competitive sport and product-development. It is not a project; it's a journey. Slow parenting is about giving kids lots of love and attention with no conditions attached.

  Carl Honore

  Sports, Kids, Journey

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• Kindness effects more than severity.

  Aesop

  Kindness, Effects, Severity

  Aesop (2013). “Aesop's Fables”, p.61, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Don't quarrel with your parents even if you are on the right.

  Plato

  Parent, Quarrels, Ifs

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• No blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son.

  Abraham Verghese

  Heart, Son, Spiteful

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• The world's greatest changes are made at home.

  Wes Fesler

  Home, World, Made

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• The greatest treasure you can leave your children is a sense of modesty and the advice to follow virtuous persons.

  Theognis of Megara

  Children, Greatest Treasure, Advice

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• I'll show up at every classroom open house and teacher conference,' she said, now in a voice that was almost frightening in its intensity. 'I'll bake brownies. My child will have new clothes. Her shoes will fit. She'll get her shots, and she'll get her braces. We'll start a college fund next week. I'll tell her I love her every damn day.' If that wasn't a great plan for being a good mother, I couldn't imagine what a better one could be

  Charlaine Harris

  Mother, Teacher, Children

  Charlaine Harris (2009). “Dead and Gone: A Sookie Stackhouse Novel”, p.67, Penguin

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• Your typical Six-year-old is a paradoxical little person, and bipolarity is the name of his game

  Louise Bates Ames

  Years, Games, Names

  Louise Bates Ames, Frances L. Ilg (2012). “Your Six-Year-Old: Loving and Defiant”, p.1, Dell

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• We want our children to become who they are- and a developed person is, above all, free. But freedom as we define it doesn't mean doing what you want. Freedom means the ability to make choices that are good for you. It is the power to choose to become what you are capable of becoming, to develop your unique potential by making choices that turn possibility into reality. It is the ability to make choices that actualize you. As often as not, maybe more often than not, this kind of freedom means doing what you do not want, doing what is uncomfortable or tiring or boring or annoying

  Gregory Millman

  Children, Mean, Unique

  Martine Millman, Gregory Millman (2008). “Homeschooling: A Family's Journey”, p.69, Penguin

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• Education, like neurosis, begins at home.

  Milton Sapirstein

  Home, Inspire, Neurosis

  Milton R. Sapirstein (1955). “Paradoxes of Everyday Life: A Psychoanalyst's Interpretations”

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