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Parenting Quotes
"So much is asked of parents, and so little is given."
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"The best parenting advice I ever got was from a labor nurse who told me the following:1. After your baby gets here, the dog will just be a dog.2. The terrible twos last through age three.3. Never ask your child an open-ended question, such as "Do you want to go to bed now?" You won't want to hear the answer, believe me. "Do you want me to carry you upstairs, or do you want to walk upstairs to go to bed?" That way, you get the outcome you want and they feel empowered."
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"Ironically, parenting is a shame and judgment minefield precisely because most of us are wading through uncertainty and self-doubt when it comes to raising our children."
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"The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears."
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"Fathers, provoke not your children to wrath."
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"I now need to take a very aggressive approach to having a baby."
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"My parents were very loving, but disciplinarians."
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"Should kids check phones at dinner? I don't know. To me, that's a parenting choice."
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"This is my child, he said. I wash a dead man's brains out of his hair. That is my job."
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"I still speak Czech with my parents because I was born there."
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"I'm not a parenting expert. In fact, I'm not sure that I even believe in the idea of 'parenting experts.' I'm an engaged, imperfect parent and a passionate researcher. I'm an experienced mapmaker and a stumbling traveler. Like many of you, parenting is by far my boldest and most daring adventure."
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"You may not be able to read a doctor's handwriting and prescription, but you'll notice his bills are neatly typewritten."
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"Some children are threatened with loss of privileges such as money, cell phones, cars or even eviction from home if they do not 'toe-the-line' and 'act straight'. I don't think parents who do such things consider for a moment the kind of emotional damage they are doing to their children - or thinking beyond their own feelings about the situation - which will not change or go away simply because of their denial."
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"Don't you know, you idiot, that that is what every fool of a woman says about her child?Miss Bulstrode's thoughts."
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"My parents were horrified when I told them I wanted to be an author."
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"Impossible to spend sleepless nights and accomplish anything: if, in my youth, my parents had not financed my insomnias, I should surely have killed myself."
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"After having been standing by the gate of the garden for a long time, Siddhartha realised that his desire was foolish, which had made him go up to this place, that he could not help his son, that he was not allowed to cling him. Deeply, he felt the love for the run-away in his heart, like a wound, and he felt at the same time that this wound had not been given to him in order to turn the knife in it, that it had to become a blossom and had to shine."
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"I would say that my parents were supportive of me."
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"Even if you do something that others might consider wrong, you should at least be willing to talk about it and tell your parents what you're doing because you believe it's right."
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"My parents were second cousins. That is enough to explain all of my peculiarities."
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"Tyranny or slavery, born of selfishness, are the two educational methods of parents; all gradations of tyranny or slavery."
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"One thing I know for sure about raising children is that every single day a kid needs discipline.... But also every single day a kid needs a break."
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"My parents have been there for me, ever since I was about 7."
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"The portrait of my parents is a complicated one, but lovingly drawn."
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"First and foremost, we need to be the adults we want our children to be. We should watch our own gossiping and anger. We should model the kindness we want to see."
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"We watch them grow, with sadness and amazement and fear. We have stepped away, but not entirely away. They know this. They sense it. We are no longer here, but we are not yet gone. And we will be like that for the rest of their lives.We watch, and they surprise us.We watch, and they surpass us."
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"We have to be back in three hours," Ronan said. "I just fed Chainsaw but she'll need it again.""This," Gansey replied "is precisely why I didn't want to have a baby with you."
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"What we instill in our children will be the foundation upon which they build their future."
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"I can encourage my daughter to love her body, but what really matters are the observations she makes about my relationship with my own body."
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"I have two young girls, 8 and 10. They really keep me young."
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"Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain."
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"I approach serious subjects, and I like to have the good guys win and have the parents among the good guys."
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"The uncertainty of parenting can bring up feelings in us that range from frustration to terror."
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"Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur."
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