2,497 Quotes About Parenting

Let your children nourish their knack, for that knack shall one day provide them with the way to live with dignity and contentment.

The AI told her not long ago that her "Why?" period might have been the shortest on record - because Mum and Dad answered every "Why?" in detail AND made sure she understood, so she wouldn't ask that particular "Why?" again. After a month "Why?" wasn't fun anymore, and she went on to other things.

Sebagai orang tua, saya merasa, setiap pertanyaan anak adalah sebuah “teaching moments”. Itu adalah kesempatan saya untuk mengajarkan atau menjelaskan dengan pandangan yang positif. Walaupun menjelaskan polisi dengan pandangan positif, dengan latar belakang interaksi saya dengan polisi sewaktu membuat SIM, membayar pajak STNK dan sewaktu ditilang, adalah salah satu hal yang agak sulit.

An uncorked kid to me is an expression as to who they truly are and isn't it that that as adults we strive to achieve throughout our whole lives?

Our children are interested in the BIG picture. That is where the deep natural learning seems to get done. It is totally opposite to everything I have ever learnt at school.

Giving birth, for me, was like emerging from a car crash to find myself inexplicably, madly in love with Vladimir Putin.

It must be difficult to be a mother,” she continued thoughtfully. “To create and nurture and raise a tiny person, to invest all of your heart in it, only to have them grow up and not need you anymore. It must hurt to feel that kind of abandonment. To be forced to let go because of time and nature and the well-being of… both the child and the mother, I suppose?

Must we make battlegrounds out of our children?

I'm the parent. It's my job to be here for you, not the other way around.