#parenting

Adelaide believes that all children should have enough grown-ups around who love them so that one can tell them to fight, one can tell them not to, and one can tell them not to worry so much. ↗

— Ann-Marie MacDonald

#love

Your father, Jo. He never loses patience,--never doubts or complains,--but always hopes, and works and waits so cheerfully, that one is ashamed to do otherwise before him. He helped and comforted me, and showed me that I must try to practise all the virtues I would have my little girls possess, for I was their example. It was easier for your sakes than for my own; a startled or surprised look from one of you, when I spoke sharply, rebuked me more than any words could have done; and the love, respect, and confidence of my children was the sweetest reward I could receive for my efforts to be the woman I would have them copy. ↗

— Louisa May Alcott

#parenting #inspirational

Being a parent is a gift, one which most men unselfishly allow women to keep all to themselves.
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— Jarod Kintz

#gift #parenting #unselfish #women #men

To be in your children's memories tomorrow, You have to be in their lives today. ↗

— Barbara Johnson

#parenting #inspirational

Parenting is a giant responsibility forever, so we need to learn how to drop the guilt and go easy on ourselves when we mess up. ↗

— Rachael Bermingham

#inspirational-quotes #motivational-quotes #parenting #responsibility #forgiveness

To abandon a child, she had once said to someone, when she thought Cassandra couldn't hear, was an act so cold, so careless, it refused forgiveness. ↗

— Kate Morton

#love #parenting #responsibility #forgiveness

In its highest form, not judging is the ultimate act of forgiveness. ↗

— John Kuypers

#faith #marriage-advice #non-judgment #parenting-tip #relationships

In the United States today, there is a pervasive tendency to treat children as adults, and adults as children. The options of children are thus steadily expanded, while those of adults are progressively constricted. The result is unruly children and childish adults. ↗

— Thomas Stephen Szasz

#inspirational #parenting #inspirational

I would like to do another piece of fiction dealing with a number of issues: Lesbian parenting, the 1960's, and interracial relationships in the Lesbian and Gay community. ↗

— Audre Lorde

#community #dealing #fiction #gay #gay community

Family life was wonderful. The streets were bleak. The playgrounds were bleak. But home was always warm. My mother and father had a great relationship. I always felt 'safe' there. ↗

— Robert Cormier

#always #bleak #family #family life #father