#parent

It's not politically correct to say that you love one child more than you love your others. I love all of my kids, period, and they're all your favorites in different ways. But ask any parent who's been through some kind of crisis surrounding a child--a health scare, an academic snarl, an emotional problem--and we will tell you the truth. When something upends the equilibrium--when one child needs you more than the others--that imbalance becomes a black hole. You may never admit it out loud, but the one you love the most is the one who needs you more desperately than his siblings. What we really hope is that each child gets a turn. That we have deep enough reserves to be there for each of them, at different times. All this goes to hell when two of your children are pitted against each other, and both of them want you on their side. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#favoritism #love #parenting #love

I had bohemian parents in Seattle in the last '60s living in a houseboat. My dad wrote science fiction novels and painted big murals and oil paintings. ↗

— Rainn Wilson

#bohemian #dad #fiction #had #i

A man doesn't have to have all the answers; children will teach him how to parent them, and in the process will teach him everything he needs to know about life. ↗

— Frank Pittman

#answers #children #everything #him #how

Apparently, the most difficult feat for a Cambridge male is to accept a woman not merely as feeling, not merely as thinking, but as managing a complex, vital interweaving of both. ↗

— Sylvia Plath

#apparently #both #cambridge #complex #difficult

I wouldn't say Malkovich is totally insane, but he's not living in the real world. He's living in his world, which is a fine world to live in apparently. ↗

— Martha Plimpton

#fine #his #i #insane #live

My parents weren't extremely successful financially, but they were happy people. They gave me confidence. ↗

— Jack Wagner

#extremely #financially #gave #happy #happy people

When children are small, parents should run their lives and not the other way around. ↗

— Anna Quindlen

#children #lives #other #parents #run

Before I was a mom I used to think that parents who worried about their kids watching MTV were just clueless. Now that I'm a mom, I see what the fuss was all about! ↗

— Martha Quinn

#before #clueless #fuss #i #i see

I was very much a product of the public-school system. There was only one other kid in my class who had parents not involved in the stock market or law. ↗

— Daniel Radcliffe

#had #i #involved #kid #law

This is what I know about my parents. They spent the next several years trying to forget each other, and me. ↗

— Raquel Cepeda

#divorce #families #family-saga #forgetting #life