Parenting Quotes
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Attachment parenting, Sears writes, "immunizes children against many of the social and emotional diseases which plague our society," producing children who are "compassionate," "caring," "admirable," "affectionate," "confident," and "accomplished" ("faster than a speeding bullet," "more powerful than a locomotive," and "able to leap tall buildings in a single bound" seem to have been left off the list!).
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Parenting is a profoundly reciprocal process: we, the shapers of our children's lives, are also being shaped. As we struggle to beparents, we are forced to encounter ourselves; and if we are willing to look at what is happening between us and our children, we may learn how we came to be who we are.
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By spending years and years living entirely for yourself, thinking only about yourself, and having responsibility to no one but yourself, you end up inadvertently extending the introverted existence of a teenager deep into middle age.
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Remember that you are not called to produce successful, upwardly mobile, highly educated, athletically talented machines...Givi ng your children great opportunities is good; it is not, however, the goal of parenting. Christlikeness is. Above all, seek to raise children who look and act a lot like Jesus.
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All of us have moments in our lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.
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The more we learn, the more we will be confronted with decisions that we've never had to make before about life, about death, about parenting.
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It's a long haul bringing up our children to be good; you have to keep doing that — bring them up — and that means bringing things up with them: Asking, telling, sounding them out, sounding off yourself — finding, through experience, your own words, your own way of putting them together. You have to learn where you stand, and make sure your kids learn [where you stand], understand why, and soon, you hope, they'll be standing there beside you, with you.
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Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.
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For a woman, a son offers the best chance to know the mysterious male existence.
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Parenting is meant to be just a natural part of life. You just think you know how to do it but, of course, it's much more complicated than that.
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It's really hard to figure out what they need to know. And that's parenting, in general. It's hard to figure out what would benefit your kids and what would just make them needlessly frightened.
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Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
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Leadership is like parenting.
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Education, like neurosis, begins at home.
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Unconditional parenting: Moving from Rewards and Punishments to Love and Reason.
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My second favorite household chore is ironing. My first being hitting my head on the top bunk bed until I faint.
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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.
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There is no job more important than parenting. This I believe.
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Do you know what you call those who use towels and never wash them, eat meals and never do the dishes, sit in rooms they never clean, and are entertained till they drop? If you have just answered, 'A house guest,' you're wrong because I have just described my kids.
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If parents wish to preserve childhood for their own children, they must conceive of parenting as an act of rebellion against culture
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In general my children refuse to eat anything that hasn't danced in television.
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I regret not having had more time with my kids when they were growing up.
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When I was a young man, I didn't think about having a family. My wife and I were too poor to have babies. Then all of a sudden, one came along and scared the hell out of us because we had no money. Once the baby arrives, you make do somehow. You fall in love with the baby and life adjusts itself. You find you don't need as much money as you thought. When that happens, you can ask the questions that should have come before the baby.
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When a child is locked in the bathroom with water running and he says he's doing nothing but the dog is barking, call 911.
