#parenting

Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to be wise... specialized competence and success are all that they can imagine. ↗

— Allan Bloom

#aspiration #children #competence #fathers #highest

A baby is born with a need to be loved - and never outgrows it. ↗

— Frank A. Clark

#baby #born #loved #need #never

I wasn't very good about juggling family and my career. I was interested in who was coming to the children's birthday party, what my son was writing. I was thinking about Legos. ↗

— Jill Clayburgh

#about #birthday #birthday party #career #children

I don't think children's inner feelings have changed. They still want a mother and father in the very same house; they want places to play. ↗

— Beverly Cleary

#changed #children #father #feelings #house

My childhood should have taught me lessons for my own fatherhood, but it didn't because parenting can only be learned by people who have no children. ↗

— Bill Cosby

#childhood #children #fatherhood #learned #lessons

It's a huge change for your body. You don't even want to look in the mirror after you've had a baby, because your stomach is just hanging there like a Shar-Pei. ↗

— Cindy Crawford

#after #baby #because #body #change

Women are individuals in parenting, and why not? ↗

— Erica Jong

#parenting #why #why not #women #women are

I tell Esther she should ease up on lard. There's no need to mix lard in with Scottie's rice, chicken, and beans. I tell her she hasn't read the blogs. I've read the blogs. I know what Scottie should eat. ↗

— Kaui Hart Hemmings

#food #nanny #parenting #food

Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk. ↗

— Carl Jung

#children #educated #grown-up #his #talk

Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted. ↗

— Garrison Keillor

#children #ever #eyes #hovering #never