#parent

One thing I know for sure about raising children is that every single day a kid needs discipline.... But also every single day a kid needs a break. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#writing-craft #life

You can't cling to the side your whole life, that one lesson every parent needs to teach a child is "If you don't want to sink, you better figure out how to swim ↗

— Jeannette Walls

#life #parenting #life

These girls probably use double negatives and watch "A Shot at Love with Tila Tequila" with their babies instead of reading Eric Carle. ↗

— Natalie Taylor

#sign-of-life #single-parenting #love

I love you enough not to care if you hate me. ↗

— Kelly Harman

#love

You can't live your life blaming your failures on your parents and what they did or didn't do for you. You're dealt the cards that you're dealt. I realised it was a waste of time to be angry at my parents and feel sorry for myself. ↗

— Drew Barrymore

#blaming #cards #dealt #did #failures

I'd definitely be the kind of parent who enabled my child's dreams. I'd just watch and nurture and guide them. I have the blueprints of what not to do... I think I'd be a good parent, actually. ↗

— Drew Barrymore

#blueprints #child #definitely #dreams #enabled

Kids today are technologically sophisticated. In many families, they are far ahead of their parents. ↗

— Rod Blagojevich

#families #far #kids #many #parents

I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom. ↗

— Simone de Beauvoir

#freedom #human #human life #i #i wish

I approach serious subjects, and I like to have the good guys win and have the parents among the good guys. ↗

— Caroline B. Cooney

#approach #good #good guys #guys #i

My parents were vegetarians. I'd show up at school, this giant black kid, with none of the cool clothes and a tofu sandwich and celery sticks. ↗