#rearing

Child-rearing is my main interest now. I'm a hands-on father. ↗

— Sean Penn

#child-rearing #father #hands-on #i #interest

I looked on child rearing not only as a work of love and duty but as a profession that was fully as interesting and challenging as any honorable profession in the world and one that demanded the best that I could bring to it. ↗

— Rose Kennedy

#best #bring #challenging #child #could

There are a hundred ways in which a boy can injure—if not indeed kill—himself. The more adventurous he is and the greater his initiative, the more ways he will find. If you protect him from each of the first hundred, he is sure to find the hundred and first. Though most men can look back on their boyhood and tremble at the narrowness of some of their escapes, most boys do in fact survive more or less intact, and the wise father is the trusting father. ↗

— Christopher Milne

#over-protectiveness #parenting #trust #men

A mother is a child's first looking glass into the world. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#children #growing #learning #mom #mother

The first principle of child-rearing is to choose a good mother. ↗

— Christian Morgenstern

#choose #first #first principle #good #good mother

He had no imagination either-fatal for one engaged in child-rearing ↗

— Mary Ann Shaffer

#imagination

No longer is the female destined solely for the home and the rearing of the family and only the male for the marketplace and the world of ideas. ↗

— William J. Brennan, Jr.

#family #female #home #ideas #longer

I'd love to adopt, but having a daughter, Daisy, who's in the middle of her teens, I'm now thinking: Is this a time to start all over again or is this a time to realise those child-rearing years are over? ↗

— Joely Richardson

#again #child-rearing #daisy #daughter #having