The value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults.
Peter De VriesTags: children marriage parenting maturity aging adults
Independence isn't doing your own thing; it's doing the right thing on your own.
Kim John PayneTags: parenting
...the love, respect, and confidence of my children was the sweetest reward I could receive for my efforts to be the woman I would have them copy.
Louisa May AlcottTags: parenting
we can learn to trust our maternal selves and to have faith in the innate goodness and purity of our children - even when we feel overwhelmed and the kids are pushing all our buttons. we can support one another....we can be understanding of each other and easier on ourselves.
Katrina KenisonTags: parenting
One must make allowances for a parental instinct that has been starving for twenty-five or thirty years. It is famished, it is crazed with hunger by that time, and will be entirely satisfied with anything that comes handy; its taste is atrophied, it can't tell mud cat from shad. A devil born to a young couple is measurably recognizable by them as a devil before long, but a devil adopted by an old couple is an angel to them, and remains so, through thick and thin.
Mark TwainTags: parenting
Before I got married I had six theories about raising children; now, I have six children and no theories.
John WilmotTags: children marriage theory parenting aging fatherhood
If you can control your behavior when everything around you is out of control, you can model for your children a valuable lesson in patience and understanding...and snatch an opportunity to shape character.
Jane Clayson JohnsonTags: inspirational parenting
Adults constantly raise the bar on smart children, precisely because they're able to handle it. The children get overwhelmed by the tasks in front of them and gradually lose the sort of openness and sense of accomplishment they innately have. When they're treated like that, children start to crawl inside a shell and keep everything inside. It takes a lot of time and effort to get them to open up again. Kids' hearts are malleable, but once they gel it's hard to get them back the way they were.
Haruki MurakamiTags: children teaching parenting
One reason we have children I think is to learn that parts of ourselves we had given up for dead are merely dormant and that the old joys can re emerge fresh and new and in a completely different form.
Anne FadimanHaving children is like living in a frat house - nobody sleeps, everything's broken, and there's a lot of throwing up.
Ray RomanoTags: humor children parenting
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