#parent

*marissa tries to get her single, working mother's attention by suggesting something outrageous, to which mom replies:* 'You're a smart girl. Use your head and avoid any guy who reminds you of your father. ↗

— Camille Noe Pagán

#fathers #humor #mothers #parenting #art

Era deste jaez (feliz palavra árabe, cada vez menos usada e cujo significado vem em todos os dicionários e bela expressão tão rafada em tempo de letras mais bojudas, que qualquer escritor, com uma única excepção, hesitaria em usá-la), era deste jaez, dizia (fórmula de repetição também recuperada do arsenal literário e que se destina a evitar que a atenção do leitor se distraia e comece a pensar noutras coisas, nanja no essencial), dizia (embora antes seja meu dever chamar a atenção para este magnífico "nanja", que não é de origem japonesa, mas sim de etimologia facilmente descortinável) e tendo-me eu esquecido da continuação da frase vou retomá-la, desde o início com vossa licença. ↗

— Mário de Carvalho

#parentesis #português #art

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

— Robert A. Heinlein

#mother #motherhood #mothering #parenting #attitude

A yummy mummy is a dedicated and loving mom who embodies a healthy lifestyle while retaining a sense of the person she was before having kids. ↗

— Marina Delio

#inspirational-attitude #inspirational-quotes #parenting #parenting-with-grace #attitude

OUr past doesn't define us. It prepares us. ↗

— Maralee McKee

#christian-living #etiquette #etiquette-and-attitude #manners #parenting

I will hold my self to a standard of grace which is Christ's gift, not perfection which is Satan's trap. ↗

— Maralee McKee

#etiquette-and-attitude #grace #manners #parenting #perfection

So often, children are punished for being human. Children are not allowed to have grumpy moods, bad days, disrespectful tones, or bad attitudes, yet we adults have them all the time! We think if we don't nip it in the bud, it will escalate and we will lose control. Let go of that unfounded fear and give your child permission to be human. We all have days like that. None of us are perfect, and we must stop holding our children to a higher standard of perfection than we can attain ourselves. All of the punishments you could throw at them will not stamp out their humanity, for to err is human, and we all do it sometimes. ↗

— Rebecca Eanes

#discipline #gentle-parenting #humanity #parenting #parenting-tip

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

My parents told us how they felt but never imposed their beliefs on us, although I appreciate I got a healthy sense of democracy from them. ↗

— Ahmet Zappa

#appreciate #beliefs #democracy #felt #got

Our parents prayer is the most beautiful poetry and expectations ↗

— Aditia Rinaldi

#parents #pray #beauty