#pare

Being a mother is an attitude, not a biological relation. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

#mother #motherhood #mothering #parenting #attitude

All things are ready, if our mind be so. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#preparation #preparedness #readiness #attitude

It’s a secondhand world we’re born into. What is novel to us is only so because we’re newborn, and what we cannot see, that has come before- what our parents have seen and been and done- are the hand-me-downs we begin to wear as swaddling clothes, even as we ourselves are naked. The flaw runs through us, implicating us in its imperfection even as it separates us, delivers us onto opposite sides of a chasm. It is both terribly beautiful and terribly sad, but it is, finally, the fault in the universe that gives birth to us all. ↗

— Katherine Min

#life #parents #perspective #vision #world

Your children are the greatest gift God will give to you, and their souls the heaviest responsibility He will place in your hands. Take time with them, teach them to have faith in God. Be a person in whom they can have faith. When you are old, nothing else you've done will have mattered as much. ↗

— Lisa Wingate

#faith #family #parenting #faith

We had to make ends meet. My parents were divorced, so my father wasn't really in my life. We grew up like most kids, just wanting things. ↗

— Jeffrey Donovan

#ends #father #grew #had #just

(Da) "Sorry, Son, what was that? I was too busy ignoring you." (Later) "Sorry, Son, I missed that," Ma said. "Ignoring you can be a full-time job. ↗

— Brian Farrey

#humor #parenting #business

If you want to have a more pleasant,cooperative teenager, be a more understanding, emphatic, consistent, loving parent. ↗

— Stephen R. Covey

#teenager #change

The miracle of children is that we just don’t know how they will change or who they will become. ↗

— Eileen Kennedy-Moore

#kids #miracle #parenting #parents #parents-and-children

I think that if I ever have kids, and they are upset, I won't tell them that people are starving in China or anything like that because it won't change the fact that they are upset. ↗

— Stephen Chbosky

#change

Blame or credit, does not belong to the child alone. Parents, those who raised the child, must be given equal credit, or blame. That does not change, when the child is one, twenty or ninety years old. ↗

— Omar Kiam

#parenting #change