#parenting

Indeed - judicious, consistent parenting is a dream of mine. No judgements, learning space and listening carefully are my goals. ↗

— Emma Thompson

#consistent #dream #goals #indeed #judgements

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

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

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

Maybe you had to leave in order to really miss a place; maybe you had to travel to figure out how beloved your starting point was... ...Parents aren't the people you come from. They're the people you want to be, when you grow up. I sat between my mother and my father, watching strangers on TV carry in Shaker rockers and dusty paintings and ancient beer tankards and cranberry glass dishes; people and their hidden treasures, who had to be told by experts that they'd taken something incredibly precious for granted. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#parenting

I thought that once we were out of the baby stage, parenting would be a breeze. ↗

— Tori Spelling

#breeze #i #once #out #parenting

That so many thousands of children around the world are available for adoption is a sign of our impoverished humanity. That so many persons around the world open their hearts and homes each year to embrace a few of these children is a lasting testimony to humanity's enduring nobility. ↗

— Deborah A. Beasley

#deborah-beasley #family-relationships #foster-care #parenting #psycology

My kids love it. I thought I was the coolest dad in the world when I got to be in a Bond film, but 'Harry Potter', too? Well, I think I qualify for a medal for exceptional parenting or something, don't you? ↗

— Robbie Coltraine

#bond film #coolest #dad #exceptional #film

Believe me, my children have more stamina than a power station. ↗

— Robbie Coltrane

#believe #children #me #more #power

In short, with each of the thousand-and-one problems that present themselves in family life, our choice is between controlling and teaching, between creating an atmosphere of distrust and one of trust, between setting an example of power and helping children to learn responsibility, between quick-fix parenting and the kind that's focused on long-term goals. ↗

— Alfie Kohn

#family