#parenting

Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence. ↗

— Plato

#bequeath #children #parents #reverence #riches

No, I've never wanted kids. But I do read about parenting a lot. ↗

— Fiona Apple

#i #i do #kids #lot #never

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

Education, like neurosis, begins at home. ↗

— Milton Sapirstein

#begins #education #home #like #neurosis

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

We expect teachers to handle teenage pregnancy, substance abuse, and the failings of the family. Then we expect them to educate our children. ↗

— John Sculley

#abuse #children #educate #expect #failings

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

Nurturing a child’s sense of personal worth and therefore hope and dreams for a wonderful future is perhaps the most important responsibility of every grownup in a child’s life. ↗

— Wess Stafford

#dreams #parenting #dreams

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