Her mother admonished through closed lips, the sound a mother can make mean anything from “pick up your socks” to “we are very disappointed you have murdered those orphans.

The most incredible thing about being a parent is seeing your own personality come out in your children.

Mankind are divided into sects, and individuals think very differently on religious subjects, from the purest motives; and that gracious common Parent, who loves all his children alike, beholds with approbation every one who worships...

I became the kind of parent my mother was to me.

There must be such a thing as a child with average ability, but you can’t find a parent who will admit that it is his child.

Honestly, I don’t know if I’d want to be an educator. I find teachers to have more responsibility, in a way, than being a parent. You’re molding hundreds of minds every year.

Everytime I hold you is the last time I hold you, I’ve known that since the very first time.

No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.

If you are a good parent, please continue to be a good one. But if you are bad parent, today is a great new beginning for you to start a great new chapter of parenthood.

In the English language there are orphans and widows, but there is no word for the parents who lose a child.

No parent should have to bury a child … No mother should have to bury a son. Mothers are not meant to bury sons. It is not in the natural order of things.I buried my...

I don’t want to be that parent that puts my kids into what I think they should be in, you know what I mean?

Things parents say to children are oftentimes not heard, but in some cases you pick up on things that your parent would like to see you have done.

I’m still my parent’s child, I’m still me, but I made a choice. I evolved into Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. I think it has to do with evolution.

I have never even idly thought for a single passing second that it might make my life nicer to have a small rude incontinent person follow me around screaming and making me buy them stuff...

Fathers. Mothers. With all their caring and attention. They will f— you up, every time.

I think I may have failed at a lot of things, but the one thing I can say, and that I’m proud of, is that I am a good parent.

We managed to write chapter one. Chapter two, we will have a child a parent can take home and raise as a cloned child.

Parenting goes beyond providing foods, shelter, clothing, and other basic necessities. Nurturing a child to travel in the direction of positive enlightenment, is arguably the greatest thing that you could do for a child.

For a dude, I think I do cook. I’m a stay-at-home parent a lot of the time.

With the sensation that he was passing through the Looking-Glass, Max stared at his father as if he had never seen him before—simultaneously impressed and unnerved at the thought that, after all these years, he...

You should visit the Palatine. It’s at the top of that hill . . .””I know where the Palatine is, Dexter, I was visiting Rome before you were born.””Yes, who was emperor back then?

We are members of God’s family. One faith, one hope and one baptism.

Being a parent is the hardest job ever in life.

There’s never been a parent in my life.

Personally, I think knees should be kept for the eight or ninth date, or the wedding day. As a nice surprise, you know? ‘Oh, my darling, you have knees! I never would have thought!

As your heart goes, so goes your family! If your heart isn’t right, no child raising system, rules, or gimmicks will ever work. As your heart goes, so goes your parenting!

Nothing’s scarier than having a sick child, and one so newly born, and so vulnerable. It’s the worst thing for a parent.

Being a parent is apparently more than most men can handle. This is transparent to even the tiniest child.

She was my mother and she would not leave me. This I had simply accepted and expected. I had no more thanked her for it than i did the sun for shining on me.

If you want to see and feel magic first hand, read a book to your kid before bedtime. —Richard Due

I have a very steadfast tendency to parent myself, to monitor my development into the person I want to be. I’ve tried to keep the corruption minimal.

cranky.” And big, gulping sobs, or sad, unhappy young minds, in a tiny body should not occur in any community of civilization. Adulthood holds many an opportunity for such conditions. Childhood should not.

Given the reality of unintended parenthood and parental unhappiness, one would think that women and men who make the decision not to have children – who are deliberate and thoughtful about the choice to bring...

But Nita had always seen having a child as selfish. Why bring another soul into this world, she’d say, when there are so many out there that need our help?

Personally, I thin knees should be kept for the eight or ninth date, or the wedding day. As a nice surprise, you know? ‘Oh, my darling, you have knees! I never would have thought!

Don’t harness a child’s imagination, encourage it so it knows no bounds!

Without you there would be no me. I am everything reflected in your eyes. I am everything approved by your smile. I am everything born of your guidance. I am me only because of you.

Amid the joy of raising children will be some of the hardest work you’ll ever do.

I suddenly remember being very little and being embraced by my father. I would try to put my arms around my father’s waist, hug him back. I could never reach the whole way around the...

Alexander Hamilton Junior High School– SEMESTER REPORT — STUDENT: Joseph MargolisTEACHER: Janet HicksENGLISH: A, ARITHMETIC: A, SOCIAL STUDIES: A, SCIENCE: A, NEATNESS: A, PUNCTUALITY: A, PARTICIPATION: A, OBEDIENCE: DTeacher’s Comments:Joseph remains a challenging student. While...

One’s past can’t be erased, it can only be learned from, the child taught her.

Children act on the words they hear.May your words be gracious to the hearing of children.May your words inspire and challenge children to fulfill their true potential.

Live your life. Be happy as you can be, let go of the things that don’t matter, and fight.

Force is the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism.

I think that discipline is so much of an important part of being a parent. Because it’s very, very important to teach your children to take responsibility for their actions.

An obedient child learns from the example of an obedient parent.

Being a parent is like being a catcher. You gotta handle whatever is thrown your way.

Bea did not want a new mother. She’d hardly even seen the one she once had, except for glimpses out the window when her mother was climbing into a carriage to go off to a...

Your family will flourish when decisions are guided by the Lord—the head of your household.