#parenting

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

Our children want more than presents, that want our PRESENCE. ↗

— Heather Schuck

#motherhood #parental-love #parenting-children #parenting-tips #inspirational

Mom and Dad would stay in bed on Sunday morning, but the kids would have to go to church. ↗

— Lynn Johnston

#bed #church #dad #go #kids

I want to have children, but my friends scare me. One of my friends told me she was in labor for 36 hours. I don't even want to do anything that feels good for 36 hours. ↗

— Rita Rudner

#anything #children #even #feels #friends

You have to support your children to have a healthy relationship. ↗

— Connie Sellecca

#children #healthy #relationship #support #you

I get whatever placidity I have from my father. But my mother taught me how to take it on the chin. ↗

— Norma Shearer

#chin #father #get #how #i

There are 80 million moms in the United States. Forty million stay at home with their children. ↗

— Andrew Shue

#children #forty #home #million #moms

The interesting thing about being a mother is that everyone wants pets, but no one but me cleans the kitty litter. ↗

— Meryl Streep

#about #being #cleans #everyone #interesting

It's a great mistake, I think, to put children off with falsehoods and nonsense, when their growing powers of observation and discrimination excite in them a desire to know about things. ↗

— Anne Sullivan

#about #children #desire #discrimination #excite

Yes it's true, you wake the child inside of you up because you're a Mom! ↗

— Sandra Chami Kassis

#life #motherhood #mothers #parenting #wisdom