15,393 Quotes About Children
- Author Mona Simpson
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Too many times I'd left him reaching for me, from a babysitter's arms. "Am I still a mother?" I asked myself... What parts of the day could I cut out and still give him enough? Paul never asked himself that. He thought he was a great dad.
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- Author Neeraj Bhanot
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For Parents: Never blame or scold a child for their first mistake after all family is the first school from where a child learns.
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- Author Alvin Price
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Parents need to fill a child’s bucket of self-esteem so high that the rest of the world can’t oke enough holes to drain it dry.
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- Author Gloria Furman
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God has called us to something vastly bigger than our happiness or that of our children.
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- Author Lesa Howard
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Asking a parent not to be a parent is like asking the sun not to be hot or snow not to be cold.
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- Author Richelle E. Goodrich
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Have you noticed how children never bypass a puddle of water, but jump, splash, and slosh right through it? That's because they know an important truth: Life was meant to be lived; puddles were meant to be experienced.
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- Author Cassandra Clare
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You shouldn't do that. Not to your child. You should-carry your own burdens.
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- Author Jennifer Senior
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We enshrine things to memory very differently than we experience them in real time. The psychologist Daniel Kahneman has coined a couple of terms to make the distinction. He talks about the "experiencing self" versus the "remembering self.
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- Author Benjamin Spock
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In automobile terms, the child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.
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