#parent

By measuring the proportion of children living with the same parents from birth and whether their parents report a good quality relationship we are driving home the message that social programmes should promote family stability and avert breakdown. ↗

— Iain Duncan Smith

#birth #breakdown #children #driving #family

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

#angry #any #awful #child #children

What is the use of physicians like myself trying to help parents to bring up children healthy and happy, to have them killed in such numbers for a cause that is ignoble? ↗

— Benjamin Spock

#bring #cause #children #happy #healthy

Nurturing a child’s sense of personal worth and therefore hope and dreams for a wonderful future is perhaps the most important responsibility of every grownup in a child’s life. ↗

— Wess Stafford

#dreams #parenting #dreams

I don't really remember the day we lost our home in the floods, but looking back I can understand how devastating it was for my parents. I was only six, so I remember us having to move to Adelaide - but not much of the actual day and night of the flood. We had to start all over again and my parents opened a cafe. ↗

— Samantha Stosur

#again #back #cafe #day #devastating

The only place I considered home was the boarding school, in Yorkshire, my parents sent me to. ↗

— Joe Strummer

#boarding school #considered #home #i #me

We had not seen any natives for many days, but a few passed the camp on the opposite side of the river on the evening of the 25th. They would not, however, come to us; but fled into the interior in great apparent alarm. ↗

— Charles Sturt

#any #apparent #camp #come #days

I think I'm a global citizen. My parents came from China, were educated in France and emigrated to the United States. And I think that opened up my mind to be able to live and work anywhere. ↗

— Anna Sui

#anywhere #came #china #citizen #educated

It's a great mistake, I think, to put children off with falsehoods and nonsense, when their growing powers of observation and discrimination excite in them a desire to know about things. ↗

— Anne Sullivan

#about #children #desire #discrimination #excite

I feel sure that unborn babies pick their parents. ↗

— Gloria Swanson

#feel #i #i feel #parents #pick