#children

There is more to a boy than what his mother sees. There is more to a boy then what his father dreams. Inside every boy lies a heart that beats. And sometimes it screams, refusing to take defeat. And sometimes his father's dreams aren't big enough, and sometimes his mother's vision isn't long enough. And sometimes the boy has to dream his own dreams and break through the clouds with his own sunbeams. ↗

— Ben Behunin

#parents-and-children #sons #dreams

Children love and want to be loved and they very much prefer the joy of accomplishment to the triumph of hateful failure. Do not mistake a child for his symptom. ↗

— Erik Erikson

#child #children #failure #hateful #his

I believe, as followers of Christ, we are commanded to reach out to the least of these in the name of Jesus and show them they matter a great deal to God, who sacrificed His only Son to reach them with His love. ↗

— K.P. Yohannan

#christian-living #poverty #love

The little prince went away, to look again at the roses. "You are not at all like my rose," he said. "As yet, you are nothing. No one has tamed you, and you have tamed no one. "You're like my fox when I first knew him. He was only a fox like a hundred thousand other foxes. But I have made him my friend, and now he is unique in all the world. ↗

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

#children-s-books #love #love

...who would have known the dark eyes staring into mine would become our children's eyes...? ↗

— John Geddes

#dark-eyes #eyes #love #poetry #love

Tantrums are not bad behavior. Tantrums are an expression of emotion that became too much for the child to bear. No punishment is required. What your child needs is compassion and safe, loving arms to unload in. ↗

— Rebecca Eanes

#gentle-parenting #parenting-children #parenting-tip #positive-parenting #preschoolers

And if you are a mom who has watched your child’s father leave, my heart goes out to you. I also pray that you had no part in it. I pray that you didn’t make it impossible for him while he was there. I pray that you didn’t try and force him to live up to impossible expectations. And, I pray that if he is a good man and he wants to be there in his child’s life that you love your child enough to let him. Even if that seems impossible to you. ↗

— Dan Pearce

#dads #fathers #parents #love

We're taught to expect unconditional love from our parents, but I think it is more the gift our children give us. It's they who love us helplessly, no matter what or who we are. ↗

— Kathryn Harrison

#parents-and-children #love

So I began to think maybe it was true that when you were married and had children it was like being brainwashed, and afterward you went about as numb as a slave in a totalitarian state. ↗

— Sylvia Plath

#children #marriage #marriage

I mean, what do people talk about when they're married?" "Their kids, I guess." "Maybe that's all they have in common. ↗

— Rita Mae Brown

#kids #marriage #married #marriage