#parenting

I hope to find the roles that are age appropriate but not yearning to be younger, or parenting ad nauseam. ↗

— Debra Winger

#age #appropriate #find #hope #i

I feel very blessed to have two wonderful, healthy children who keep me completely grounded, sane and throw up on my shoes just before I go to an awards show just so I know to keep it real. ↗

— Reese Witherspoon

#awards #before #blessed #children #completely

We criticize mothers for closeness. We criticize fathers for distance. How many of us have expected less from our fathers and appreciated what they gave us more? How many of us always let them off the hook? ↗

— Ellen Goodman

#always #appreciated #closeness #criticize #distance

We must return optimism to our parenting. To focus on the joys, not the hassles; the love, not the disappointments; the common sense, not the complexities. ↗

— Fred G. Gosman

#common sense #complexities #disappointments #focus #hassles

A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone. ↗

— Billy Graham

#allowed #anyone #child #disrespectful #his

The Golden Rule of Parenting is; do unto your children as you wish your parents had done unto you! ↗

— Louise Hart

#done #golden #golden rule #had #parenting

It's hard enough to work and raise a family when your kids are all healthy and relatively normal, but when you add on some kind of disability or disease, it can just be such a burden. ↗

— Patricia Heaton

#add #burden #disability #disease #enough

I think humans have always been desperate. I think it has always been about doing something awful if it might help, when the only other option is death. Maybe that's what being a parent is supposed to feel like. ↗

— Lauren DeStefano

#human-nature #parenting #death

What feeling is so nice as a child's hand in yours? So small, so soft and warm, like a kitten huddling in the shelter of your clasp. ↗

— Marjorie Holmes

#child #feeling #hand #kitten #like

My mom's a Catholic, and my dad's a Jew, and they didn't want anything to do with anything. ↗

— Isabelle Huppert

#anything #catholic #dad #jew #mom