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  • Being a parent, I'm acutely aware of how hard it is to get good childcare.

    Source: www.elle.com
  • You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.

  • Infants and young children are not just sitting twiddling their thumbs, waiting for their parents to teach them to read and do math. They are expending a vast amount of time and effort in exploring and understanding their immediate world. Healthy education supports and encourages this spontaneous learning.

    David Elkind (1987). “Miseducation: preschoolers at risk”, Alfred a Knopf Inc
  • The absurd duty, too often inculcated, of obeying a parent only on account of his being a parent, shackles the mind, and prepares it for a slavish submission to any power but reason.

    Parent   Mind   Reason  
    Mary Wollstonecraft (2015). “A Vindication of the Rights of Woman”, p.190, Booklassic
  • Being a parent is not easy, but speaking for myself, it's a wonderful blessing and the most rewarding job I've ever had.

    Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com
  • Children are the most amazing thing in the universe, as far as I'm concerned. If you're worrying about how it's going to turn out, you aren't experiencing that day-to-day satisfaction of being with these incredible, extraordinary creatures. Every single one of them is the most incredible, extraordinary creature that you're ever going to want to see. I think the joy of having that deep relationship - that's the core of what being a parent is.

    Source: www.macleans.ca
  • I think humans have always been desperate. I think it has always been about doing something awful if it might help, when the only other option is death. Maybe that's what being a parent is supposed to feel like.

    Thinking   Parent   Might  
    Lauren DeStefano (2013). “Sever”, p.295, Simon and Schuster
  • The most important thing that parents can teach their children is how to get along without them.

  • I worry about the kids who have too much. As a parent living in a so-called good neighborhood with children who went to private high school, I found myself spending much time in parent groups worrying about alcohol, unsupervised parties, and parents not being parents.

    Children   Party   School  
  • The best way to make children good is to make them happy.

    Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.172, Wordsworth Editions
  • Being a parent of a boy who wants to wear sparkles and grow his hair long - especially when you don't know where it's all going to go - it's hard stuff. I'm not being politically incorrect in acknowledging that, am I?

    Boys   Hair   Long  
  • There is nothing better than being a parent. It is the most challenging job one could ever ask for. I love being a mom and I love being a friend to my children as well.

    Mom   Jobs   Children  
  • People ask me, 'Is being a parent the be-all, end-all?' And I say, 'Oh, it definitely is up to the person, and it is difficult, it can be very difficult, and it can be extremely healing.' That's what I have found, that the children are mirrors. Everyone is a mirror, but children especially because they're day and night and all day long.

    "Musician Melissa Etheridge". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. June 10, 2010.
  • I think part of being a parent, to love one's child, is to accept them as they come - not to see them as instruments of our ambition or as creatures to be molded, as if they were themselves commodities.

    Source: www.pbs.org
  • I have a small child. Being a parent takes a lot of time. People always ask me, "What movies have you watched lately?" I tell them, "Finding 'Nemo' ... 'Shrek'.

  • I only have one child. But I am learning that there is a lot to being a parent that you did not expect.

    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • It's not only children who grow. Parents do too. As much as we watch to see what our children do with their lives, they are watching us to see what we do with ours. I can't tell my children to reach for the sun. All I can do is reach for it, myself.

    Joyce Maynard (2010). “At Home in the World: A Memoir”, p.300, Macmillan
  • To be a good enough parent one must be able to feel secure in one's parenthood, and one's relation to one's child...The security of the parent about being a parent will eventually become the source of the child's feeling secure about himself.

  • The one thing about being a parent is the ability to be selfless: To give up the things you want and need for the benefit of someone else.

    "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
  • Children are people, and they should have to reach to learn about things, to understand things, just as adults have to reach if they want to grow in mental stature. Life is composed of lights and shadows, and we would be untruthful, insincere, and saccharine if we tried to pretend there were no shadows. Most things are good, and they are the strongest things; but there are evil things too, and you are not doing a child a favor by trying to shield him from reality. The important thing is to teach a child that good can always triumph over evil.

    Walt Disney, Kathy Merlock Jackson (2006). “Walt Disney: Conversations”, p.54, Univ. Press of Mississippi
  • Being a parent is not a reasonable thing. It is a very hard thing. I am a parent and I know.

    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • Children will not remember you for the material things you provided but for the feeling that you cherished them.

    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • One of the greatest titles in the world is parent, and one of the biggest blessings in the world is to have parents to call mom and dad.

    Mom   Fathers Day   Dad  
  • A very painful part of being a parent is having really negative feelings about your children when you love them so much.

  • The thing about being a parent it puts priorities in order. Thank God, you're not totally focused on yourself anymore. You get to put your energy out, as opposed to worrying all the time about your own stuff. It's such a relief, but when you think about it, it's like an extension of you. It's like a safer way; you feel less indulgent about it, but they are extensions of yourself, and I think you're freer to love them so unconditionally. That, we're not able to do with our own selves.

    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • Affirming words from moms and dads are like light switches. Speak a word of affirmation at the right moment in a child's life and it's like lighting up a whole roomful of possibilities.

    Mom   Dad   Children  
    Gary Smalley, John T. Trent (1995). “Leaving the Light On: Building the Memories That Will Draw Kids Home”, Multnomah
  • Your kids require you most of all to love them for who they are, not to spend your whole time trying to correct them.

    "An Unconditional Embrace". Interview with Gabriel Lyon, www.tolerance.org. Spring 1998.
  • I was pretty much a single-father for most of my daughter India's life. Looking back, were there things I could've done better? Yes, but I'm still pretty proud of myself for having raised such an amazing individual. Being a parent is not easy, but speaking for myself, it's a wonderful blessing and the most rewarding job I've ever had.

    Source: aalbc.com
  • I was little there were times I wanted my parents to be normal. I wanted them to have a religion. I wanted them to have a job, like the parents of every other kid I went to school with.

    Jobs   School   Kids  
  • Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They came through you but not from you and though they are with you yet they belong not to you.

    The Prophet "On Children" (1923)
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