I'd rather be a 'THINKER' - Two Healthy Incomes No Kids Early Retirement!
Kaye D. WaltersTags: children parenting kids childfree kidfree
I mark my years or parenting by the people who stepped in and forced me to abandon my inclination to meddle, micromanage, and coddle, beginning with my children's father, who sat me down and told me in year two that I was going to create a little monster if I continuted to act as though "no" and "I don't love you" were synonomous.
Anna QuindlenTags: parenting
To look deep into your child's eyes and see in him both yourself and something utterly strange, and then to develop a zealous attachment to every aspect of him, is to achieve parenthood's self-regarding, yet unselfish, abandon. It is astonishing how often such mutuality had been realized - how frequently parents who had supposed that they couldn't care for an exceptional child discover that they can. The parental predisposition to love prevails in the most harrowing of circumstances. There is more imagination in the world than one might think.
Andrew SolomonTags: inspirational love parenting
Parenting is something that happens mostly while you’re thinking of something else.
Barbara KingsolverTags: parenting
I complained to a friend that although I had completed six years in therapy, my mother still wouldn’t let me go. He replied, "She’s not supposed to let you go. Your father is supposed to come and get you.
Don EliumQuality time is not the same as the everydayness of being together. Let’s neither glorify nor undervalue.
Don EliumTags: parenting
Adelaide believes that all children should have enough grown-ups around who love them so that one can tell them to fight, one can tell them not to, and one can tell them not to worry so much.
Ann-Marie MacDonaldTags: parenting
You could slap his wrist for saying it, but then he said it with his face, and you could spank him for making faces, but then he said it with his eyes, and there were limits to correction—no way, in the end, to penetrate behind the blue irises and eradicate a boy’s disgust.
Jonathan FranzenTags: punishment parenting chidbirth
Blame or credit, does not belong to the child alone. Parents, those who raised the child, must be given equal credit, or blame. That does not change, when the child is one, twenty or ninety years old.
Omar KiamIf we can keep ourselves from interfering with the natural laws of life, mistakes can be our child's finest teachers.
Randy AlcornTags: life learning children nature mistakes parenting teacher
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