1,263 Quotes About Parents

Offering care means being a companion, not a superior. It doesn’t matter whether the person we are caring for is experiencing cancer, the flu, dementia, or grief.If you are a doctor or surgeon, your expertise and knowledge comes from a superior position. But when our role is to be providers of care, we should be there as equals.

Even though people experiencing dementia become unable to recount what has just happened, they still go through the experience—even without recall. The psychological present lasts about three seconds. We experience the present even when we have dementia. The emotional pain caused by callous treatment or unkind talk occurs during that period. The moods and actions of people with dementia are expressions of what they have experienced, whether they can still use language and recall, or not.

Some people grow up with issues because they did not have their parents around growing up, many others have issues because their parents were around growing up

Every parent is an artist, but not every artist is apparent.

I think part of being a parent is trying to kill your kids.

Children are gifts. They are not ours for the breaking. They are ours for the making.

Of course, everyone's parents are embarrassing. It goes with the territory. The nature of parents is to embarrass merely by existing, just as it is the nature of children of a certain age to cringe with embarrassment, shame, and mortification should their parents so much as speak to them on the street.

My parents are going to kill me!""That seems rather harsh...

How many of us ever make time to know who our parents really were? How many sunken layers deep are those we thought we knew simply because we loved them?