#parenting

If you're asking your kids to exercise, then you better do it, too. Practice what you preach. ↗

— Bruce Jenner

#asking #better #exercise #kids #practice

Girls are the future mothers of our society, and it is important that we focus on their well-being. ↗

— Miriam Makeba

#focus #future #important #mothers #our

When a child hits a child, we call it aggression. When a child hits an adult, we call it hostility. When an adult hits an adult, we call it assault. When an adult hits a child, we call it discipline. ↗

— Haim G. Ginott

#parenting #violence #parenting

The life of a mother is the life of a child: you are two blossoms on a single branch. ↗

— Karen Maezen Miller

#life #motherhood #parenting #life

I think I'm going to have to live vicariously through my daughter's rebellion because I certainly never did go through adolescence. ↗

— Brooke Shields

#adolescence #because #certainly #daughter #did

Honor your relationships by developing listening skills. ↗

— Allan Lokos

#marriage #parenting #relationships #art

It's not politically correct to say that you love one child more than you love your others. I love all of my kids, period, and they're all your favorites in different ways. But ask any parent who's been through some kind of crisis surrounding a child--a health scare, an academic snarl, an emotional problem--and we will tell you the truth. When something upends the equilibrium--when one child needs you more than the others--that imbalance becomes a black hole. You may never admit it out loud, but the one you love the most is the one who needs you more desperately than his siblings. What we really hope is that each child gets a turn. That we have deep enough reserves to be there for each of them, at different times. All this goes to hell when two of your children are pitted against each other, and both of them want you on their side. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#favoritism #love #parenting #love

Often people ask, "How can you say you're blessed to have a son with Down syndrome?" My outlook on life has forever changed. I see my own challenges differently. He's always showing me that life is so much bigger than self. ↗

— Yvonne Pierre

#inspirational #life #parent #parenting #special-needs

Perhaps it takes courage to raise children.. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#parenting #courage

Mama and Daddy King represent the best in manhood and womanhood, the best in a marriage, the kind of people we are trying to become. ↗

— Coretta Scott King

#become #best #daddy #kind #king