127 private quotes tagged parenting

“It's a great mistake, I think, to put children off with falsehoods and nonsense, when their growing powers of observation and discrimination excite in them a desire to know about things.” — Anne Sullivan

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“I regret not having had more time with my kids when they were growing up.” — Tina Turner

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“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

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“I think I'm going to have to live vicariously through my daughter's rebellion because I certainly never did go through adolescence.” — Brooke Shields

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“Believe me, my children have more stamina than a power station.” — Robbie Coltrane

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“That's my ideal day, time with my boys.” — Kenny G

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“We criticize mothers for closeness. We criticize fathers for distance. How many of us have expected less from our fathers and appreciated what they gave us more? How many of us always let them off the hook?” — Ellen Goodman

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“Home life's great, man. The kids are great, happy and healthy. I've reached this sort of wonderful precipice.” — Ryan Phillippe

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“We all have an interest in making sure teens grow up healthy and drug-free.” — John Walters

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“I'd just as soon stay home and raise babies.” — June Allyson

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“There are some great questions to ask your doctor. If he says 'no,' then you find yourself a different doctor. There really has to be a change in how we medically look at women at this time. I mean, this is not just baby gloom.” — Marie Osmond

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“My father was a farmer and my mother was a farmer, but, my childhood was very good. I am very grateful for my childhood, because it was full of gladness and good humanity.” — Roberto Benigni

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“What lingers from the parent's individual past, unresolved or incomplete, often becomes part of her or his irrational parenting.” — Virginia Satir

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“Autism is a neurological disorder. It's not caused by bad parenting. It's caused by, you know, abnormal development in the brain. The emotional circuits in the brain are abnormal. And there also are differences in the white matter, which is the brain's computer cables that hook up the different brain departments.” — Temple Grandin

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“I'm hosting weekend retreats all over America. It is like a 24-hour slumber party for moms. We laugh, eat, play games, get massages, win prizes, talk about parenting and even cry a bit.” — Lisa Whelchel

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“I hope to find the roles that are age appropriate but not yearning to be younger, or parenting ad nauseam.” — Debra Winger

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“Parenting is an impossible job at any age.” — Harrison Ford

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“In truth, I am a single mother. But I don't feel alone at all in parenting my daughter. Krishna has a whole other side of her family who loves her, too. And so Krishna is parented by me, but also by her grandmother and aunts and cousins and uncles and friends.” — Padma Lakshmi

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“What good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is usually best after all.” — Benjamin Spock

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“Childhood obesity is best tackled at home through improved parental involvement, increased physical exercise, better diet and restraint from eating.” — Bob Filner

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“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

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“Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth.” — Erma Bombeck

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“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

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“I'm a parent, especially when you've had the intense parenting the way I had. It's all in the bank. It's all in the great experience bank. Those are your secrets. That's the stuff that makes your work rich, that's what you dip into.” — Hector Elizondo

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“For me, Twitter works best as a way of taking pictures of being stuck in traffic on the Brooklyn Bridge. If people really want to read really funny quips about life, parenting, and pop culture, then by all means read Michael Ian Black's tweets.” — Michael Showalter

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