Parenting Quotes - Page 25

• 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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• The family should be a closely knit group. The home should be a self-contained shelter of security; a kind of school where life's basic lessons are taught; and a kind of church where God is honored; a place where wholesome recreation and simple pleasures are enjoyed.

  Billy Graham

  Home, School, Simple

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• You want to mess up the minds of your children? Here's how - guaranteed! Rear them in a legalistic, tight context of external religion, where performance is more important than reality. Fake your faith. Sneak around and pretend your spirituality. Train your children to do the same. Embrace a long list of do's and don'ts publicly but hypocritically practice them privately... yet never own up to the fact that its hypocrisy. Act one way but live another. And you can count on it - emotional and spiritual damage will occur.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Spiritual, Children, Reality

  Charles R. Swindoll (2006). “The Grace Awakening: Believing in Grace Is One Thing. Living it Is Another.”, p.90, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• When correcting a child, the goal is to apply light, not heat.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Children, Light, Discipline

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• As soon as we find ourselves working at being indispensable, rigging up a pattern of vulnerability in our loved ones, we know that our love has taken the socially sanctioned form of egotism.

  Germaine Greer

  Love, Taken, Patterns

  Germaine Greer (1972). “The female eunuch”

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• I'm a parent, especially when you've had the intense parenting the way I had. It's all in the bank. It's all in the great experience bank. Those are your secrets. That's the stuff that makes your work rich, that's what you dip into.

  Hector Elizondo

  Secret, Dip, Stuff

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Home life's great, man. The kids are great, happy and healthy. I've reached this sort of wonderful precipice.

  Ryan Phillippe

  Home, Kids, Men

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• I'm torn about late parenting. I believe people should spend their twenties living and having fun and not having any regrets later. I also think people in their thirties generally make better parents but so many of my friends are having trouble - myself included - as fathers get older.

  Eric McCormack

  Fun, Regret, Father

  "What I know about women". Interview with Liz Hoggard, www.theguardian.com. April 14, 2007.

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• Parents are key when it comes to keeping kids off drugs. Good parenting is the best anti-drug we have.

  Mel Carnahan

  Kids, Keys, Drug

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• My father wasn't really involved and my mom is the light in my life.

  Marion Jones

  Mom, Mother, Father

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

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• Breasts are a scandal because they shatter the border between motherhood and sexuality

  Iris Marion Young

  Motherhood, Borders, Scandal

  Iris Marion Young (2005). “On Female Body Experience: "Throwing Like a Girl" and Other Essays”, p.88, Oxford University Press

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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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• My mom's a Catholic, and my dad's a Jew, and they didn't want anything to do with anything.

  Isabelle Huppert

  Inspiring, Mom, Dad

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• Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.

  Ogden Nash

  Family, Children, Giving

  "Happy Days". Book by Ogden Nash, 1933.

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

  Wes Fesler

  Home, World, Made

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

  Wes Fesler

  Art, Expression, Perspective

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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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• 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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