#parenting

What lingers from the parent's individual past, unresolved or incomplete, often becomes part of her or his irrational parenting. ↗

— Virginia Satir

#her #his #incomplete #individual #irrational

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

— Connie Sellecca

#children #healthy #relationship #support #you

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

The Tone is the Message. ↗

— Kevin T. McCarney

#connecting #honest #leadership #listening #management

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

What feeling is so nice as a child's hand in yours? So small, so soft and warm, like a kitten huddling in the shelter of your clasp. ↗

— Marjorie Holmes

#child #feeling #hand #kitten #like

Always kiss your children goodnight, even if they're already asleep. ↗

— H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

#already #always #asleep #children #even

Parenting, as an unpaid occupation outside the world of public power, entails lower status, less power, and less control of resources than paid work. ↗

— Nancy Chodorow

#entails #less #lower #occupation #outside

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