Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
Benjamin SpockTags: philosophy self-assurance parenting
We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.
Franklin D. RooseveltTags: future children childhood parenting parenthood
If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent.
Bette DavisTags: parenting
Babies are soft. Anyone looking at them can see the tender, fragile skin and know it for the rose-leaf softness that invites a finger's touch. But when you live with them and love them, you feel the softness going inward, the round-cheeked flesh wobbly as custard, the boneless splay of the tiny hands. Their joints are melted rubber, and even when you kiss them hard, in the passion of loving their existence, your lips sink down and seem never to find bone. Holding them against you, they melt and mold, as though they might at any moment flow back into your body.
But from the very start, there is that small streak of steel within each child. That thing that says "I am," and forms the core of personality.
In the second year, the bone hardens and the child stands upright, skull wide and solid, a helmet protecting the softness within. And "I am" grows, too. Looking at them, you can almost see it, sturdy as heartwood, glowing through the translucent flesh.
The bones of the face emerge at six, and the soul within is fixed at seven. The process of encapsulation goes on, to reach its peak in the glossy shell of adolescence, when all softness then is hidden under the nacreous layers of the multiple new personalities that teenagers try on to guard themselves.
In the next years, the hardening spreads from the center, as one finds and fixes the facets of the soul, until "I am" is set, delicate and detailed as an insect in amber.
Tags: children motherhood babies parenting vulnerability
Children are made readers on the laps of their parents.
Emilie BuchwaldTags: reading children parenting
Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society.
Benjamin FranklinTags: self-control parenting
Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.
Phyllis DillerTags: parenting
I used to believe my father about everything but then I had children myself
Brian AndreasTags: parenting credibility
To be in your children's memories tomorrow,
You have to be in their lives today.
Tags: inspirational parenting
All of us have moments in out lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.
Erma BombeckTags: children courage bravery housekeeping parenting parenthood carpeting
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