#parenting

I feel very blessed to have two wonderful, healthy children who keep me completely grounded, sane and throw up on my shoes just before I go to an awards show just so I know to keep it real. ↗

— Reese Witherspoon

#awards #before #blessed #children #completely

We must return optimism to our parenting. To focus on the joys, not the hassles; the love, not the disappointments; the common sense, not the complexities. ↗

— Fred G. Gosman

#common sense #complexities #disappointments #focus #hassles

A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone. ↗

— Billy Graham

#allowed #anyone #child #disrespectful #his

It's hard enough to work and raise a family when your kids are all healthy and relatively normal, but when you add on some kind of disability or disease, it can just be such a burden. ↗

— Patricia Heaton

#add #burden #disability #disease #enough

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

My mom's a Catholic, and my dad's a Jew, and they didn't want anything to do with anything. ↗

— Isabelle Huppert

#anything #catholic #dad #jew #mom

Maybe you had to leave in order to really miss a place; maybe you had to travel to figure out how beloved your starting point was... ...Parents aren't the people you come from. They're the people you want to be, when you grow up. I sat between my mother and my father, watching strangers on TV carry in Shaker rockers and dusty paintings and ancient beer tankards and cranberry glass dishes; people and their hidden treasures, who had to be told by experts that they'd taken something incredibly precious for granted. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#parenting

I thought that once we were out of the baby stage, parenting would be a breeze. ↗

— Tori Spelling

#breeze #i #once #out #parenting

That so many thousands of children around the world are available for adoption is a sign of our impoverished humanity. That so many persons around the world open their hearts and homes each year to embrace a few of these children is a lasting testimony to humanity's enduring nobility. ↗

— Deborah A. Beasley

#deborah-beasley #family-relationships #foster-care #parenting #psycology