#parent

I married an excellent parent, but I'm not sure that I've made a great parent. ↗

— Danny Bonaduce

#great #i #made #married #parent

If you're a kid in Southern California, somebody - whether it's you or your parents - somebody throws your hat into the ring and I think everyone had a commercial or two. ↗

— Danny Bonaduce

#commercial #everyone #had #hat #i

Parents have this twisted belief that anyone under the age of about twenty simply can’t know what love is, like the age to love is assessed in the same way the law assesses the legal age to drink. They think that the ‘emotional growth’ of a teenager’s mind is too underdeveloped to understand love, to know if it’s ‘real’ or not. ↗

— J.A. Redmerski

#parents #teenage-love #age

I think I was born because my parents had two boys and wanted to give it one more go and try for a girl... they got me instead. ↗

— Alex Borstein

#born #girl #give #go #got

I can remember running around at the age of 3, wanting to play golf, cricket and football. I was always active, one way or another, driving my parents mad. ↗

— Ian Botham

#age #always #another #around #cricket

I acknowledge Shakespeare to be the world's greatest dramatic poet, but regret that no parent could place the uncorrected book in the hands of his daughter, and therefore I have prepared the Family Shakespeare. ↗

— Thomas Bowdler

#book #could #daughter #dramatic #family

I think there's a settled quality, there's a gravitas that comes with aging and with being a parent because you certainly come to recognize that there's nothing else that takes greater priority than raising your children. ↗

— Benjamin Bratt

#because #being #certainly #children #come

Grandparents who want to be truly helpful will do well to keep their mouths shut and their opinions to themselves until these are requested. ↗

— T. Berry Brazelton

#helpful #keep #mouths #opinions #requested

I should be an affected women, if I made any pretence of being surprised by my son's inspiring such emotions; but I can't be indifferent to anyone who is so sensible on his merits ↗

— Charles Dickens

#inspirational

Although it is very easy to marry a wife, it is very difficult to support her along with the children and the household. Accordingly, no one notices this faith of Jacob. Indeed, many hate fertility in a wife for the sole reason that the offspring must be supported and brought up. For this is what they commonly say: ‘Why should I marry a wife when I am a pauper and a beggar? I would rather bear the burden of poverty alone and not load myself with misery and want.’ But this blame is unjustly fastened on marriage and fruitfulness. Indeed, you are indicting your unbelief by distrusting God’s goodness, and you are bringing greater misery upon yourself by disparaging God’s blessing. For if you had trust in God’s grace and promises, you would undoubtedly be supported. But because you do not hope in the Lord, you will never prosper. ↗

— Martin Luther

#faith #god #marriage #money #parenthood