People worried too much about their children. Suffering when you're young is good for you. It immunized your body and soul...
Jeannette WallsTags: children suffering parenting kids-funny
Fussing over children who cry only encourages them. That's positive reinforcement for negative behavior.
Jeannette WallsNo child is born a delinquent. They only became that way if nobody loved them when they were kids. Unloved children grow up to be serial murderers or alcoholics.
Jeannette WallsTags: life love children parenting
What doesn't kill you will make you stronger
Jeannette WallsYou can't cling to the side your whole life, that one lesson every parent needs to teach a child is "If you don't want to sink, you better figure out how to swim
Jeannette WallsTags: life parenting challenges
If you want to be treated like a mother, act like one.
Jeannette WallsTags: actions parenting mothers
Had I catalogued the downsides of parenthood, "son might turn out to be a killer" would never have turned up on the list. Rather, it might have looked something like this:
1. Hassle.
2. Less time just the two of us. (Try no time just the two of us.)
3. Other people. (PTA meetings. Ballet teachers. The kid's insufferable friends and their insufferable parents.)
4. Turning into a cow. (I was slight, and preferred to stay that way. My sister-in-law had developed bulging varicose veins in her legs during pregnancy that never retreated, and the prospect of calves branched in blue tree roots mortified me more than I could say. So I didn't say. I am vain, or once was, and one of my vanities was to feign that I was not.)
5. Unnatural altruism: being forced to make decisions in accordance with what was best for someone else. (I'm a pig.)
6. Curtailment of my traveling. (Note curtailment. Not conclusion.)
7. Dementing boredom. (I found small children brutally dull. I did, even at the outset, admit this to myself.)
8. Worthless social life. (I had never had a decent conversation with a friend's five-year-old in the room.)
9. Social demotion. (I was a respected entrepreneur. Once I had a toddler in tow, every man I knew--every woman, too, which is depressing--would take me less seriously.)
10. Paying the piper. (Parenthood repays a debt. But who wants to pay a debt she can escape? Apparently, the childless get away with something sneaky. Besides, what good is repaying a debt to the wrong party? Only the most warped mother would feel rewarded for her trouble by the fact that at last her daughter's life is hideous, too.)
Tags: children motherhood parenting kids
Rejection is an opportunity for your selection.
Bernard BransonTags: motivational success friendship sexuality education women family self-esteem ethics college sex religion faith economics marriage paranormal-romance relationships funny creativity bible jesus self-help spirituality angels dating fun leadership parenting educational meditation business family-relationships management supernatural young-adult childrens christian-living nonfiction spiritual-growth students romantic-comedy adult baby teen entrepreneurship sexy romantic-suspense love-story dark-fantasy christian-romance african-american-romance fantasy-romance young-adult-fantasy bible-study explicit personal-transformation humorous-romance
With a lump forming in his throat, he thought
about all the hopes and dreams that he had for his son. More than
anything, he prayed his boy would not grow up to be a screw up
like his dad when it came to love and marriage.
Tags: inspiration parenting
My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.
Jim ValvanoTags: love faith believe parenting gift father dad believe-in-yourself believed
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