Parenting Quotes

"The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother and become fully independent" "You're never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child." "It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one’s children will become than for the children one’s “mature” critics often are." "Faith can be very very dangerous, and deliberately to implant it into the vulnerable mind of an innocent child is a grievous wrong" "Do not indoctrinate your children. Teach them how to think for themselves, how to evaluate evidence, and how to disagree with you" "I think sometimes when children grow up, their parents grow down" "My daughter is my biggest achievement." "Mothers are freedom fighters for their kids. They wake up, swaddle, change, entertain, love, feed, and do it all over again" "By profession I am a soldier and take pride in that fact but I am prouder infinitely prouder to be a father" "Accept the children the way we accept trees with gratitude because they are a blessing." "There are ways of being abandoned even when your parents are right there" "A father is someone who carries pictures where his money used to be" "One thing they never tell you about child-raising is that for the rest of your life, at the drop of a hat, you are expected to know your child's name and how old he or she is." "My kids always perceived the bathroom as a place where you wait it out until all the groceries are unloaded from the car." "Hugs can do great amounts of good, especially for children "