15,393 Quotes About Children

Here's a tip for new parents: Start lowering those expectations early, it's going to pay off later.

Attachment parenting, Sears writes, "immunizes children against many of the social and emotional diseases which plague our society," producing children who are "compassionate," "caring," "admirable," "affectionate," "confident," and "accomplished" ("faster than a speeding bullet," "more powerful than a locomotive," and "able to leap tall buildings in a single bound" seem to have been left off the list!).

I sometimes heard the parents of Michel's playmates sigh about how, after a busy day, they really needed "a moment to themselves." The children were in bed at last, and then came the magic moment, and not a minute earlier. I've always thought that was strange, because for me that moment began much earlier. When Michel came home from school, for example, and everything was as it should be.

All problems, though appearing outside of you, must be resolved within YOU.

If you're using most of your energy to do stuff for your kids, then you'll have that much less energy to just be there for them.

Parenting is a partnership. Loving each other has a big impact on your children.

Thus far we have been able to protect [our children] from the deep and enduring traumas that scar the minds and selves of so many of the patients I see. How — how?—can I make it always so?

In raising my children, I have lost my mind but found my soul.

Do not raise your children the way your parents raised you; they were born for a different time.