#parenting

Shouldn't we also ask ourselves what the consequences are of scrambling to provide the "most" of everything to our children in a world of fast dwindling resources? ↗

— John Taylor Gatto

#education #environment #parenthood #parenting #resources

Children are people, and they should have to reach to learn about things, to understand things, just as adults have to reach if they want to grow in mental stature. Life is composed of lights and shadows, and we would be untruthful, insincere, and saccharine if we tried to pretend there were no shadows. Most things are good, and they are the strongest things; but there are evil things too, and you are not doing a child a favor by trying to shield him from reality. The important thing is to teach a child that good can always triumph over evil. ↗

— Walt Disney Company

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He could not construct for the child's pleasure the world he'd lost without constructing the loss as well and he thought perhaps the child had known this better than he. ↗

— Cormac McCarthy

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I gave you life. You’re wasting it. ↗

— Stephenie Meyer

#live-life #parenting #life

I was delighted to see him growing more cautious and skeptical about what he heard, especially when he heard it from someone in apparent authority. I think that is fundamental to a good education. And if it comes back to bite me from time to time, that's a price worth paying. ↗

— Martine Millman

#parenting #education

Teaching our children to live a quiet, sane, and balanced life is one of the most important parental tasks of our day. ↗

— Brent L. Top

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A child may be "spoiled" by a lack of training or by inappropriate love that gives or trains incorrectly. ↗

— Garry Chapman

#love #parenting #love

Mina wanted some of the kind of love Momma gave to her children, wheere love was the first and deepest thing, and the questions came later and the answers wouldn't matter much measured up against the love. ↗

— Cynthia Voigt

#love

Tantrums are not bad behavior. Tantrums are an expression of emotion that became too much for the child to bear. No punishment is required. What your child needs is compassion and safe, loving arms to unload in. ↗

— Rebecca Eanes

#gentle-parenting #parenting-children #parenting-tip #positive-parenting #preschoolers

Where did we ever get the crazy idea that in order to make children do better, first we have to make them feel worse? Think of the last time you felt humiliated or treated unfairly. Did you feel like cooperating or doing better? ↗

— Jane Nelson

#discipline #motivation #parenting #punishment #motivational