Danh ngôn thuộc danh mục: parenting

If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed.

Mom and Dad would stay in bed on Sunday morning, but the kids would have to go to church.

I don't claim to know everything about parenting, but I do know parents do their children a disservice by constantly sugarcoating their shortcomings to protect their feelings.

No one knows his true character until he has run out of gas, purchased something on the installment plan and raised an adolescent.

Parents forgive their children least readily for the faults they themselves instilled in them.

My father wasn't really involved and my mom is the light in my life.

What feeling is so nice as a child's hand in yours? So small, so soft and warm, like a kitten huddling in the shelter of your clasp.

What parent has it easy? I just never make the difficulty of it an obstacle. I just do it.

My guess is that good and bad parenting is spread fairly evenly across different social groups. But can you imagine Tony Blair lecturing the middle class on how to bring up their children? He is far more comfortable as a latter-day exponent of the Poor Law mentality.

In my experience (I am the lone father of an eight-year-old boy who lost his mother when he was one year old), parenting is the most difficult of all jobs: forget your chief executives, editors, prime ministers and the like - parenting is far more challenging.

Having children is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.

I barely have time for my own children. To adopt more children and not have time for them, that would be poor parenting on my part.

I think the parenting of Tina and myself combined allowed our kids to really find their passion at an early age.

Having a baby changes the way you view your in-laws. I love it when they come to visit now. They can hold the baby and I can go out.

I would love to have kids one day. In fact, I'm pretty good with them. I grew up with five half-siblings, the youngest of whom is 11 years younger than me, so I think I learned some pretty cool parenting skills quite early on in life.

I've become sort of an accidental advocate for attachment parenting, which is a style of parenting that... basically, the way mammals parent and the way people have parented for pretty much all of human history except the last 200 years or so.

I have a neuroscience background - that's what my doctorate is in - and I was trained to study hormones of attachment, so I definitely feel my parenting is informed by that.

Attachment parenting is not a passive parenting style.

Relationships are complicated no matter what style of parenting you choose.

I came to parenting the way most of us do - knowing nothing and trying to learn everything.

People who choose not to have kids do so because they respect the job of parenting so much that they know not to take it on if they know it's not something that they're up for, and I don't know what to be a bigger tribute to parenting than that.

Parenting a pre-teen is quite something.

Parents are key when it comes to keeping kids off drugs. Good parenting is the best anti-drug we have.

Parenting is perhaps the most important job we have in our lives.

The interesting thing about being a mother is that everyone wants pets, but no one but me cleans the kitty litter.

For me, Twitter works best as a way of taking pictures of being stuck in traffic on the Brooklyn Bridge. If people really want to read really funny quips about life, parenting, and pop culture, then by all means read Michael Ian Black's tweets.

My father once said about being a parent that it is the only thing you do that requires a very long period of learning, and at about the time that you are becoming competent, you don't need the skills anymore. Notwithstanding this modest assessment of their parenting skills, they were wonderful parents.

My parents were divorced when I was a young teenager, and I was raised by a single mother after that. So, I understand the difficulties that families have. I understand single parenting.

I'm tired but grateful: choosing to blend parenting and public service has made me a more confident mother and a better legislator.

Too often, our societal norms still set up a false choice between parenting and professionalism.

Certainly, workers in many industries do not have the privilege of being able to balance parenting at the workplace, and we must fight especially hard to support working parents in low-wage jobs.

No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly.

I realize that of all people, I am no expert on parenting or marriage.

If I meet a wise person, I think, 'Yes, tell me more about parenting, about marriage, about how to stay in love. Tell me more about how to be a decent person living in a world that's filled with chaos.'

My mom and dad gave their kids the greatest gift of all - the gift of unconditional love. They cared deeply about who we would be, and much less about what we would do.

From politics to parenting, Christians have something to say.

Parents learn a lot from their children about coping with life.

Loving a child doesn't mean giving in to all his whims; to love him is to bring out the best in him, to teach him to love what is difficult.

How my parents are in the kitchen is a good indicator of their parenting style. Mum cooks for sustenance, wants to get in and out, the job done quickly. My Dad wants to prance around in the kitchen, create a curry - and a mess - and entertain everyone.

Tell me how a person judges his or her self-esteem, and I will tell you how that person operates at work, in love, in sex, in parenting, in every important aspect of existence - and how high he or she is likely to rise. The reputation you have with yourself - your self-esteem - is the single most important factor for a fulfilling life.

I think parenting these days is definitely different from when a lot of people grew up. As much blame as we give a lot of our kids for what they're not doing... I also try to give them as much credit for dealing with things that we didn't have to deal with. Bullying was one on one and face to face. Now it's all over the Internet.

There's this constant guilt that comes with parenting. You always feel like you're never enough. If you're confident in your parenting, you probably suck at it.

Most moms and dads, they want to be good moms and dads. But it's an incredibly hard job when you are stressed out, when you are poor, when your life is in chaos. And giving them some of the tools to be better parents, to whittle away at that parenting gap, gives those kids a much better starting point in life.

I get whatever placidity I have from my father. But my mother taught me how to take it on the chin.

Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.

To me luxury is to be at home with my daughter, and the occasional massage doesn't hurt.

My whole thing with parenting, even though this is my first time, I want to just put five or six objects on the floor - a trumpet, a piano, some dancing or a computer or whatever it is, and just see what he picks up.

Everything that happens to me in a day enhances my parenting.

I've got letters from all over the world saying what you're describing as American parenting is Chilean middle-class parenting, or it is Finnish middle-class parenting, or it is Slovak middle-class parenting.

America's parenting customs can shock foreigners.