#parenting

Howard adores Sam's looks. He loves the strong cut of jaw made satin with thickening peach fuzz, loses himself in the green eyes. Howard stares at them like a lover, but always obliquely. (Sometimes we watch our son from a distance. "I wonder what he's thinking," Howard will say.) ↗

— Chandler Burr

#literature #love #parenting #love

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

Realizing the emptiness of a "spirituality" -- and of a "spiritual" nurture -- that remains in the clouds need not bring us or our children to a dead end. It is a turning point. Now we can begin to deepen our awareness of the genuine spirituality of life's humblest moments. ↗

— Jean Grasso Fitzpatrick

#parenting #spirituality #inspirational

The parent must always self-parent first, self-preach before child-teach, because who can bring peace unless they’ve held their own peace? ↗

— Ann Voskamp

#parenting #inspirational

Each suburban wife struggles with it alone. As she made the beds, shopped for groceries, matched slipcover material, ate peanut butter sandwiches with her children, chauffeured Cub Scouts and Brownies, lay beside her husband at night- she was afraid to ask even of herself the silent question-- 'Is this all? ↗

— Betty Friedan

#feminism #housekeeping #inspirational #marriage #parenting

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

— Barbara Johnson

#parenting #inspirational

I'd just as soon stay home and raise babies. ↗

— June Allyson

#babies #home #i #just #raise

I figure that if the children are alive when I get home, I've done my job. ↗

— Roseanne Barr

#alive #children #done #figure #get

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

We do children an enormous disservice when we assume that they cannot appreciate anything beyond drive through fare and nutritionally marginal, kid-targeted convenience foods. Our children are capable of consuming something that grew in a garden or on a tree and never saw a deep fryer. They are capable of making it through diner at a sit-down restaurant with tablecloths and no climbing equipment. Children deserve quality nourishment. ↗

— Victoria Moran

#diet #food #nutrition #parenting #beauty