#parenting

Parenting is one of the hardest jobs on earth. ↗

— Jennifer Aniston

#hardest #jobs #parenting

A mother who is really a mother is never free. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#free #mother #never #really #who

If your boundary training consists only of words, you are wasting your breath. But if you 'do' boundaries with your kids, they internalize the experiences, remember them, digest them, and make them part of how they see reality. ↗

— Henry Cloud

#parenting #experience

Only those few who are able to surpass their fear of death completely can fully experience the highest forms of life; not the mundane life of the mortal, but the godly life of the resurrected. ↗

— Zeena Schreck

#buddhism #death #left-hand-path #magic #parenting

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

Children are gifts. They are not ours for the breaking. They are ours for the making. ↗

— Dan Pearce

#arguing #break #child #children #dads

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

You become a parent, and your whole life becomes about worrying. You just worry constantly whether they'll be okay. And the idea that I'll be worried forever about them and what they do...I almost have a panic attack when I think about it. I'm worried, and I'm worried about having to worry so goddamn much. ↗

— Drew Magary

#worrying #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

I had a friend whose family had dinner together every day. The mother would tuck you in at night and make breakfast in the morning. It just seemed so amazing to me. ↗

— Moon Unit Zappa

#etiquette #etiquette-and-attitude #manners #parenting #parenting-children