Raising Children Quotes - Page 7

• What you discovered about yourself in raising children wasn't always agreeable or attractive.

  Jonathan Franzen

  Children, Attractive, About Yourself

  Jonathan Franzen (2001). “The Corrections: A Novel”, p.263, Macmillan

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• It has been said that the hardest job in the world is raising a child, but the people who says this have probably never worked at a comb factory or captured pirates on the high seas.

  Daniel Handler

  Jobs, Children, Hardest Job

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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, Parenting

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• In spite of the six thousand manuals on child raising in the bookstores, child raising is still a dark continent and no one really knows anything. You just need a lot of love and luck - and, of course, courage.

  Bill Cosby

  Courage, Children, Dark

  Bill Cosby (1987). “Fatherhood”, Berkley Publishing Group

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• We're raising children who have little tolerance for disappointment

  Brené Brown

  Children, Disappointment, Tolerance

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• You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.

  Franklin P. Adams

  Patience, Baby, Funny Inspirational

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• Life affords no greater responsibility, no greater privilege, than the raising of the next generation

  C. Everett Koop

  Love, Teacher, Children

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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, Parenting, Hands

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• Raising children with an emphasis on intrinsic rewards is not a technique, a method or a trick to get them to do what the parent wants them to by subtler means, but a way of life, a way of living with children with real respect for their intelligence and for their being.

  Mamie Van Doren

  Children, Real, Mean

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• It is one thing to show your child the way, and a harder thing to then stand out of it

  Robert Breault

  Family, Children, Parenting

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• Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you, and though they are with you, yet they belong not to you. You may give them your love, but not your thoughts. For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams. You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you. For life goes not backward, nor tarries with yesterday.

  Khalil Gibran

  Wisdom, Daughter, Dream

  Prophet (1923) "On Children"

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• Playing golf is like raising children. You keep thinking you'll do better next time.

  Charles E. McKenzie

  Children, Golf, Thinking

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• Years ago someone wrote [about me]: 'She characterizes Molly Weasley as a mother who is only at home looking after the children.' I was deeply offended, because I until a year before that had also been such a mother who was at home all the time taking care of her child [...] What has lesser status and is more difficult than raising a child? And what is more important?

  J. K. Rowling

  Wise, Mother, Witty

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• Having and raising children is doing something with your life! ... And I have to say that having your kids is one of the greatest things you can do.

  Patricia Heaton

  Children, Kids, Abortion

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• The first and continuing argument for the curtailment of working hours and the raising of the minimum age was that education was necessary in a democracy and working children could not attend school.

  Grace Abbott

  Children, School, Democracy

  Grace Abbott (1968). “The Child and the State: Legal status in the family. Apprenticeship and child labor”

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• The selection process has been powerful enough to produce one indisputable outcome: the family is a universal human institution. . . . In virtually every society into which historians or anthropologists have inquired, one finds people living together on the basis of kinship ties and having responsibility for raising children. . . . Even in societies where men and women have relatively unrestricted sexual access to one another beginning at an early age, marriage is still the basis for family formation. It is desired by the partners and expected by society.

  James Q. Wilson

  Family, Powerful, Children

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• Raising children who are hopeful and who have the courage to be vulnerable means stepping back and letting them experience disappointment, deal with conflict, learn how to assert themselves, and have the opportunity to fail. If we’re always following our children into the arena, hushing the critics, and assuring their victory, they’ll never learn that they have the ability to dare greatly on their own.

  Brené Brown

  Children, Disappointment, Mean

  Brené Brown (2012). “Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, andLead”, p.240, Penguin

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• Praising children’s intelligence harms their motivation and it harms their performance.

  Carol S. Dweck

  Children, Motivation, Praise

  Carol S. Dweck (2006). “Mindset: The New Psychology of Success”, p.175, Random House

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• When it comes to raising children, I believe in give and take. I give orders and they take 'em.

  Bernie Mac

  Inspirational, Children, Believe

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• Women may give lip service to wanting husbands who take on an equal role in raising children, but many will pull rank when an important decision, like how to discipline or what baby sitter to hire, has to be made.

  Pepper Schwartz

  Baby, Husband, Children

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• The end product of child raising is not the child but the parent.

  Frank Pittman

  Children, Parent, Being A Father

  "Man Enough: Fathers, Sons, and the Search for Masculinity". Book by Frank Pittman, www.today.com. 1993.

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• I got kind of burned out, so I moved to Florida. I was down there for 10 or 12 years, raising children.

  Lee Majors

  Children, Florida, Years

  "Man in a 'Million'". Interview with Terry Pace, www.timesdaily.com. July 21, 2005.

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• Training a puppy is like raising a child. Every single interaction is a training opportunity.

  Ian Dunbar

  Children, Opportunity, Training

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• There are no absolutes in raising children. In any stressful situation, fathering is always a roll of the dice. The game may be messy, but I have never found one with more joys and rewards.

  Bill Cosby

  Children, Games, Stressful Situations

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• The secret to raising children is to love them... And teach them to operate in a way you can tolerate them the best.

  Bob Saget

  Children, Secret, Way

  Twitter post from Jun 02, 2012

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