Parenting: Parenting Quotes

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"The proper time to influence the character of a child is about a hundred years before he is born"

Dean Inge, Philosopher

"As an adoptive parent myself of foster children, I have seen firsthand the glaring problems of the system currently facing this Nation"

Dennis Cardoza, Politician

"But, if you observe children learning in their first few years of life, you can see that they can and do learn on their own - we leave them alone to crawl, walk, talk, and gain control over their bodies. It happens without much help from parents"

Daniel Greenberg, Educator

"The best compliment to a child or a friend is the feeling you give him that he has been set free to make his own inquiries, to come to conclusions that are right for him, whether or not they coincide with your own"

Alistair Cooke, Journalist

"She had called in the debt that parents owe a child for bringing her, unasked, into a strange world. One should never make an offer without knowing full well what will happen if it is accepted"

David Brin, Author

"I think people with open minds will observe the way we do things and realize that our goal is to have successful, happy, productive adults, and they will take our ideas and implement them elsewhere for their own children"

Daniel Greenberg, Educator

"It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't"

Barbara Kingsolver, Novelist

"Bias has to be taught. If you hear your parents downgrading women or people of different backgrounds, why, you are going to do that"

Barbara Bush, First Lady

"You have to love your children unselfishly. That's hard. But it's the only way"

Barbara Bush, First Lady

"I was a really picky eater as a child. Because I was obsessed by Popeye, my mum and aunts would put my food in a can to represent spinach, and we'd hum the Popeye tune, and then I'd happily eat it"

Paul O'Grady, Comedian

"Education, like neurosis, begins at home"

Milton R. Sapirstein, Physicist

"I have a family and two cats; I get up with my kids early in the morning"

Vanna White, Celebrity

"It is commonly agreed that children spend more hours per year watching television than in the classroom, and far less in actual conversation with their parents"

Paul Weyrich, Critic

"What I do say is, yes, children may be resilient and they have been able to deal with all sorts of difficulties they have faced, but the bottom line is this: I believe very strongly children need a mother and a father in the home"

Timothy Murphy, Soldier

"You have to be the parent; you can't be their friend"

Patricia Richardson, Actress

"My parents didn't treat me as if there was anything in the world I couldn't do, except be unkind"

Kristin Hersh, Musician

"My family deals with those risks. The best I can do is talk to them about some of those risks. I'm not incredibly specific with them, especially with my kids"

Mark Kelly, Musician

"The great medical facilities are a relief for the parents, too, who don't have to think about caring for their young ones on their own for a weekend. They have a great time"

Jami Gertz, Actress

"Corporal punishment is as humiliating for him who gives it as for him who receives it; it is ineffective besides. Neither shame nor physical pain have any other effect than a hardening one"

Ellen Key, Writer

"Children who cling to parents or who don't want to leave home are stunted in their emotional, psychological growth"

Dirk Benedict, Actor

"I grew up in a family where the internalized understanding was that the kids were going to grow up into a better world. I worry, because I don't think my kids are going to have that. The world is very scary. The world would be scary without the choices the current administration made, but they just exacerbated it. And it ticks me off. I want my kids to have a good life"

Bradley Whitford, Actor

"When I'm not working, my time is really about my children"

Christine Lahti, Actress

"What good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is usually best after all"

Benjamin Spock, Scientist

"Every child senses, with all the horse sense that's in him, that any parent is angry inside when children misbehave, and they dread more the anger that is rarely or never expressed openly, wondering how awful it might be"

Benjamin Spock, Scientist

"Sometimes with my children, I remember exactly how I felt as the child in this situation, not just how it feels to be me"

Meryl Streep, Actress

"The difficulty of IVF or of any fertility issues is the hope and the shattered hope, the dream that it might happen this time and then it doesn't happen"

Brooke Shields, Actress

"TV is not a baby sitter"

Luis Guzman, Actor

"There are unwanted emotions and pain that goes along with any birth"

John Travolta, Actor

"In the past, children learned their values at home, reinforced by organizations such as the Boy Scouts and, of course, their church or synagogue, but in all too many families that is no longer the case"

Paul Weyrich, Critic

"Cameras in classrooms are no substitute for greater authority by parents and teachers"

Paul Weyrich, Critic

"The child supplies the power, but the parents have to do the steering"

Benjamin Spock, Scientist

"I've been in a serious conversation with one of my children, and a fan has come up. I've been in a public bathroom and had the hand come under the stall with a paper and pen. That sort of thing, anybody can live without"

Helen Reddy, Actress

"That's sort of like asking a parent who their favorite child is. It's very hard to determine. Sometimes I'll get feedback from somebody who liked this part of the show. Others like another part of the show"

Lance Burton, Entertainer

"If I want my children to learn what Bomba and Plena is, I will teach them"

Luis Guzman, Actor

"I think you have to be a little bit strict. You can't be friend and their parent in a lot of situations, especially in this day and age where it's so dangerous for kids. So there's a bit of sternness, I guess, in the way I raise my kids"

Tim McGraw, Musician

"You remember all those phrases about how 'these people' - Asians - don't value human life like we do. Well, if you spend any time around them, you discover that they love their children just as much as we love ours. That is certainly true of the Vietnamese"

Neil Sheehan, Journalist

"Your kids inevitably want to move where they had their vacations when they were younger"

Jim Harrison, Writer

"When you have a kid, you have to be more mature"

Sofia Vergara, Model

"We're parents first, and once you have kids, everybody knows that you have priority lists. Number one is your family and everything else just kind of finds its place"

Tim McGraw, Musician

"I like the values in Flicka, and I wanted to do a movie my kids could see and be proud of"

Tim McGraw, Musician

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