#child

Parents - especially step-parents - are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fulfill the promise of their early years. ↗

— Anthony Powell

#children #disappointment #early #especially #fulfill

My childhood, I would say, was a bit sad. Society resents that. ↗

— Columba Bush

#childhood #i #resents #sad #say

One thing I know for sure about raising children is that every single day a kid needs discipline.... But also every single day a kid needs a break. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#writing-craft #life

All his words and actions would now be fit for his daughter’s ears and eyes. Life would be lived as if under [her] constant scrutiny. He would never do anything that might cause her pain or anxiety or embarrassment and there would be nothing, absolutely nothing in his life to be ashamed of anymore. ↗

— David Nicholls

#life #life

I love you enough not to care if you hate me. ↗

— Kelly Harman

#love

Reverence is an emotion that we can nurture in our very young children, respect is an attitude that we instill in our children as they become school-agers, and responsibility is an act that we inspire in our children as they grow through the middle years and become adolescents. ↗

— Zoe Weil

#respect #responsibility #reverence #teach #attitude

We are respecting our parents' wishes....They didn't want to shelter us from the world's treacheries. They wanted us to survive them. ↗

— Lemony Snicket

#parents-and-responsiblity #survival #treachery #respect

Resiliency is the essence of a global positive framework... ↗

— Asa Don Brown

#psychologist #psychology #ptsd #recovery #research

The reasonableness of the command to obey parents is clear to children, even when quite young. ↗

— Noah Webster

#children #obedience #parents #obedience

However painful the process of leaving home, for parents and for children, the really frightening thing for both would be the prospect of the child never leaving home. ↗

— Robert Neelly Bellah

#child #children #frightening #home #however