I mean, when the world comes for your children, with the knives out, it's your job to stand in the way.
Joe HillStichwörter: children parenting parental-love
The fact is that Chinese parents can do things that would seem unimaginable-even legally actionable-to Westerners. Chinese mothers can say to their daughters, "Hey fatty-lose some weight." By contrast, Western parents have to tiptoe around the issue, talking in terms of "health" and never ever mentioning the f-word, and their kids still end up in therapy for eating disorders and negative self image.
Amy ChuaStichwörter: children health chinese parenting mindsets
Once when I was young-maybe more than once-when I was extremely disrespectful to my mother, my father angrily called me "garbage" in our native Hokkien dialect. It worked really well. I felt terrible and deeply ashamed of what I had done. But it didn't damage my self esteem or anything like that. I knew exactly how highly he thought of me. I didn't actually think I was worthless or feel like a piece of garbage.
As an adult, I once did the same thing to Sophie, calling her garbage in English when she acted extremely disrespectful toward me. When I mentioned I had done this at a dinner party, I was immediately ostracized. One guest named Marcy got so upset she broke down in tears and had to leave early. My friend Susan, the host, tried to rehabilitate me with the remaining guests.
"Oh dear, it's just a misunderstanding. Amy was speaking metaphorically-right, Amy? you didn't actually call Sophie 'garbage.'"
"Um, yes I did. But it's all in the context," I tried to explain. "It's a Chinese immigrant thing.
Stichwörter: chinese parenting garbage fine battle-hymn-of-the-tiger-mother
I think that the best thing we can do for our children is to allow them to do things for themselves, allow them to be strong, allow them to experience life on their own terms, allow them to take the subway... let them be better people, let them believe more in themselves.
C. JoyBell C.Stichwörter: life inspirational growing-up children inspirational-quotes childhood living motherhood life-and-living parenting parenthood inspirational-life kids inspiring fatherhood parenting-children
While I was drying off Maddie after her bath tonight, she said, 'I love you' to me for the first time. It sounded like 'All lub boo,' but I didn't care. To reciprocate, I showed her what an ex-Marine looks like when he cries.
Jim BeaverStichwörter: humor love children parenting
In its complexity and sensuality, nature invites exploration, direct contact, and experience. But it also inspires a sense of awe, a glimpse of what is still "un-Googleable" . . . life's mystery and magnitude.
Kim John PayneWhy children?' he asked. 'Why always children? For love to end where it begins is far more beautiful, and Nature knows it.
E.M. ForsterStichwörter: love children nature parenting homosexuality sterility
No blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son.
Abraham VergheseStichwörter: parenting
Babbit was an average father. He was affectionate, bullying, opinionated, ignorant, and rather wistful. Like most parents he enjoyed the game of waiting till the victim was clearly wrong, then virtuously pouncing.
Sinclair LewisStichwörter: parents parenting
The miracle of children is that we just don’t know how they will change or who they will become.
Eileen Kennedy-MooreStichwörter: parents children miracle parenting parents-and-children kids
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