#parent

My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it. ↗

#father #me #mother #protected #threatened

When (The World According To) Garp was published, people who’d lost children wrote to me. ‘’I lost one, too,’’ they told me. I confessed to them that I hadn’t lost any children. I’m just a father with a good imagination. In my imagination, I lose my children every day. (afterword) ↗

— John Irving

#imagination #parenthood #death

I take parenting incredibly seriously. I want to be there for my kids and help them navigate the world, and develop skills, emotional intelligence, to enjoy life, and I'm lucky to be able to do that and have two healthy, normal boys. ↗

— Joan Cusack

#develop #emotional #enjoy #enjoy life #healthy

If you've never been hated by your child, you've never been a parent. ↗

— Bette Davis

#child #hated #never #parent #you

There are some parents who have really done it right and told their kid, 'You know, we have this dough, none of this is for you. You have to get your own.' ↗

— Robert Downey, Jr.

#dough #get #kid #know #none

I think if we are actually going to accept our generation's responsibility, that's going to mean that we give our children no less retirement security than we inherited from our parents. ↗

— Carol Moseley Braun

#actually #children #generation #give #going

Always kiss your children goodnight, even if they're already asleep. ↗

— H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

#already #always #asleep #children #even

When I make a book, I make it for the child and not for the parent - no jokes in it for the parents! ↗

— Dick Bruna

#child #i #jokes #make #parent

At the end of the day, the most overwhelming key to a child's success is the positive involvement of parents. ↗

— Jane D. Hull

#child #day #end #end of the day #involvement

Bias has to be taught. If you hear your parents downgrading women or people of different backgrounds, why, you are going to do that. ↗