673 Quotes About Parenthood

This anxiety to keep his father from anger was wearisome to him.

They are full of wonder and awe and can play creatively. Sometimes they can sense things that adults often take time to perceive or know. For example, young children are able to make quick intuitive decisions about whom they will be friendly with. However, when this aspect of a child is not affirmed and noticed, it becomes hidden and repressed. As a result, young children can lose touch with a part of themselves that is already quite well developed.

Your children are going through life with their eyes closed, so YOU'RE the one who has to steer.

It’s like they said! Geralt! It’s like they said! Am I your destiny? Say it! Am I your destiny?'‘You’re more than that, Ciri. Much more.

The author stipulates that while television lately background noise for a child, it tends to shift to the foreground for the adult. The adult pays enough attention to the media attention is paid to the child.

Miseries of a birth.

When justice is more certain and more mild, is at the same time more efficacious.

They (teenage boys)don’t really listen to speeches or talks. They absorb incrementally, through hours and hours of observation.

To take an analogy from botany, she imagined a child as an unopened flower; a parent had a responsability to provide light and water, but also to stand back and watch. 'He can do anything he wants', she said, 'as long as he's happy and cool.' In contrast, I saw no reason why the flower should not be bracketed to a bamboo stick, pruned, exposed to artificial light; if it made for a stronger, more resilient plant, why not? (pag. 337)