#parenting

While not impossible, it is especially challenging for teenage parents to develop bonds with their children. A high percent of them were themselves children of teenage parents and have never experienced appropriate parenting. ↗

— Jane Fonda

#bonds #challenging #children #develop #especially

Parenting is an impossible job at any age. ↗

— Harrison Ford

#any #impossible #job #parenting

Children that are raised in a home with a married mother and father consistently do better in every measure of well-being than their peers who come from divorced or step-parent, single-parent, cohabiting homes. ↗

— Todd Tiahrt

#better #children #come #consistently #divorced

Parents should not smoke in order to discourage their kids from smoking. A child is more likely to smoke when they have been raised in the environment of a smoker. ↗

— Christy Turlington

#been #child #discourage #environment #kids

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

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

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

Even as kids reach adolescence, they need more than ever for us to watch over them. Adolescence is not about letting go. It's about hanging on during a very bumpy ride. ↗

— Ron Taffel

#about #adolescence #during #even #ever