#pare

We define our identity always in dialogue with, sometimes in struggle against, the things our significant others want to see in us. Even after we outgrow some of these others—our parents, for instance—and they disappear from our lives, the conversation with them continues within us as long as we live. ↗

— Charles Taylor

#dialogue #life #parents #self #self-identity

I gave you life. You’re wasting it. ↗

— Stephenie Meyer

#live-life #parenting #life

No, Miss Wright didn't want to meet her kid. To her, that relationship was just as important, just as ideal and impossible as it would be to the child. She'd expect that young man to be perfect, smart, and talented, everything to compensate for all the mistakes that she'd made. The whole wasted, unhappy mess of her life. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#children #parent #parenting #parents #relationship

When you go to meetings or auditions and you fail to prepare, prepare to fail. It is simple but true. ↗

— Paula Abdul

#fail #go #meetings #prepare #simple

Raising teenage sons and daughters is a long and tiresome journey. With God's help the final outcome will be worthwhile. ↗

— Ana Monnar

#parenthood #parenting #quote #life

Being a parent wasn't just about bearing a child. It was about bearing witness to its life. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#life #parent #witness #life

I met this boy here who I knew as a kid and his mum left him with a pedophile for two weeks when he was eight years old and I'm presuming you know everything there is to know about Jonah's father, and that my father is dead, and my mother hasn't been around for years, and God knows Jessa's real story. So what I'm saying here, Sergeant, is that we're just a tad low on the reliable adult quota so you have no right to be all self-righteous about what Chaz did and if you're going to go around not talking to him when his only crime was wanting me to have what he has, then I think you're going to turn out to be a bit of a dud and you know something? I'm just a bit over life's little disappointments right now. Do you understand what I'm saying? ↗

— Melina Marchetta

#life

I was delighted to see him growing more cautious and skeptical about what he heard, especially when he heard it from someone in apparent authority. I think that is fundamental to a good education. And if it comes back to bite me from time to time, that's a price worth paying. ↗

— Martine Millman

#parenting #education

My parents didn't want to move to Florida, but they turned sixty and that's the law. ↗

— Jerry Seinfeld

#law #move #parents #sixty #turned

Teaching our children to live a quiet, sane, and balanced life is one of the most important parental tasks of our day. ↗

— Brent L. Top

#parenting #life