Caring about the welfare of children and shaming parents are mutually exclusive endeavors.
Brené BrownTag: shame parenting gifts-of-imperfect-parenting mommy-wars
The last time Assistant Principal Parker called, a girl in the school's locker room had accused Julie of being a whore during the two years she'd spent on the street. My kid took exception to that and decided to communicate that by applying a chair to the offending party's head. I'd told her to go for the gut next time- it left less evidence.
Ilona AndrewsTag: parenting kate-daniels
Parents are not really interested in justice. They just want quiet.
Bill CosbyTag: peace parenting kids noise
She has to have four arms, four legs, four eyes, two hearts, and double the love. There is nothing “single” about a single mom.
Mandy HaleTag: love children parenting positive-thinking single singleness single-life single-mom being-single the-single-woman single-woman single-ladies single-lady being-a-parent
Single moms: You are a doctor, a teacher, a nurse, a maid, a cook, a referee, a heroine, a provider, a defender, a protector, a true Superwoman. Wear your cape proudly.
Mandy HaleTag: children parenting mothers superwoman single singleness moms single-life mothers-love single-mom being-single the-single-woman single-woman single-ladies single-lady
You've got to learn to let go and let your children fall, and fail. If you try to protect them from hurt, and always rush to their side with Band-Aids, they won't learn about life, and what is true, what works, what helps, and what are real consequences of certain kinds of behavior. When they do get hurt, which they will, they won't know how to take care of their grown selves. They won't even know where the aspirin is kept.
Anne LamottTag: parenting
And the end of this paradox is that only when the child is thus free can he have the proper attachment to his parents; only when we allow his independence can he then freely offer us love and respect, without conflict and without resentment. It is the hardest lesson to learn that the goal of parenthood is not to reign forever but to abdicate gracefully at the right time.
Sydney J. HarrisTag: family children parenting
Genuine love for a child, it seems to me, must include a desire for his maturity and ultimately his independence. WAtching a personality unfold is perhaps the deepest pleasure of parenthood; wishing, or trying, to retard this growth is one of the deepest sins.
Sydney J. HarrisTag: family parents children child parenting
And most of the failures in parent-child relationships, from my observation, begin when the child begins to acquire a mind and a will of its own, to make independent decisions and to question the omnipotence or the wisdom of the parent.
Sydney J. HarrisTag: family parents children child parenting parenthood kids
Whenever my children complain about the planet to me, I say 'Shut up, I just got here myself'.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Tag: parenting environmental-degradation
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