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Slow parents understand that childrearing should not be a cross between a competitive sport and product-development. It is not a project; it's a journey. Slow parenting is about giving kids lots of love and attention with no conditions attached.

Raising a child is like taking care of someone who's on way too many shrooms, while you yourself are on a moderate amount of shrooms. I am not confident in my decisions, but I know you should not be eating a mousepad.

Respect the child. Be not too much his parent. Trespass not on his solitude.

Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

Relationships are complicated no matter what style of parenting you choose.

The family should be a closely knit group. The home should be a self-contained shelter of security; a kind of school where life's basic lessons are taught; and a kind of church where God is honored; a place where wholesome recreation and simple pleasures are enjoyed.

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widely spread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible.

The first half of our lives are ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.

The greatest tragedy of the family is the unlived lives of the parents.

The Internet is just bringing all kinds of information into the home. There's just a lot of distraction, a lot of competition for the parent's voice to resonate in the children's ears.

The pressures of being a parent are equal to any pressure on earth. To be a conscious parent, and really look to that little being's mental and physical health, is a responsibility which most of us, including me, avoid most of the time because it's too hard.

The Golden Rule of Parenting is; do unto your children as you wish your parents had done unto you!

The love of a parent for a child is the love that should grow towards separation.

The most precious things in speech are the pauses.

The parents exist to teach the child, but also they must learn what the child has to teach them; and the child has a very great deal to teach them

The persons hardest to convince that they're at the retirement age are children at bedtime.

There are going to be moments today you don't like me. You'll get over it.

There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.

The secret to success, to parenting, to life, is to not count up the cost. Don't focus on all the steps it will take. Don't stare into the abyss at the giant leap it will take. That view will keep you from taking the next small step.

The true test of a person's character is how they treat the people in life that they don't need.

The unconditional love for you child, it's truly amazing.

To an adolescent, there is nothing in the world more embarrassing than a parent.

~Trust me when I tell you I'm on my girls. And every time I am, I know from the outside it looks like I'm an overbearing, controlling parent. But I don't think we are responsible to anybody but our kids and ourselves.~

Very often when you see families it's all perfect and neat, and parenting isn't like that. You do have constant negotiations. Things are ever developing and ever changing, and you constantly have to evaluate how you deal with your kids.

Was it Gorky who had said, "If your children are no better than you are, you have fathered them in vain, indeed you have lived in vain".

We could be like a father determined to provide everything for his family. He devotes every energy to that end and succeeds; only then does he discover that what they needed most, to be together as a family, has been neglected. And he reaps sorrow in place of contentment.

The problem with children is that you have to put up with their parents.

Welcome to Lake Wobegon, where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average.

Well, I just want him to grow up happy. That's the main thing.

We're living in a time when parenting is not at all mirroring the way I was parented. For me, I just followed my parents around on their errands; when they were busy on the phone, I was quiet. It's a different kettle of fish these days: They run the house, and you listen to their music, and you go to their appointments.

We realized that the version of the world they rendered for us was not the version of the world they really believed in.

We ought to esteem it of the greatest importance that the fictions which children first hear should be adapted in the most perfect manner to the promotion of virtue.

What is a child? Ignorance. What is a child? Want of instruction.

~We were on a family trip to Death Valley, and there were moments when my husband and I wanted to just leave the kids there - all the whining! You think that no other kid can do it as much as yours. When they're with friends, they're great; when they're in the car with just the family, it's maddening at times. But you adore them anyway.~

What's a good investment? Go home from work early and spend the afternoon throwing a ball around with your son.

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

When you hold your baby in your arms the first time, and you think of all the things you can say and do to influence him, it's a tremendous responsibility. What you do with him can influence not only him, but everyone he meets and not for a day or a month or a year but for time and eternity.

When talking w/kids its not what we say but how we say it! Think about your tone of voice & non-verbal communication. When talking to my kids I can get them to listen better by not talking down to them, but talking to them at eyeball level

While not impossible, it is especially challenging for teenage parents to develop bonds with their children. A high percent of them were themselves children of teenage parents and have never experienced appropriate parenting.

When your kids come home, they don't necessarily want to talk to you. They just want to know you're standing there, ready to talk.

Where parents do too much for their children, the children will not do much for themselves.

Women are individuals in parenting, and why not?

You go through big chunks of time where you're just thinking, 'this is impossible - oh,this is impossible'. And then you just keep going and keep going, and you sort of do the impossible.

You have to support your children to have a healthy relationship.

~Wyatt [my adopted son] is definitely all mine. Little souls find their way to you whether they're from your womb or someone else's.~

You know the only people who are always sure about the proper way to raise children? Those who've never had any.

You may strive to be like them but seek not to make them like you. For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.

~You know how parents rattle on to you about, 'Oh, you won't believe your life will never be the same,' and you think, Why can't these people just get over it? All they're doing is yakking about their kids. It's such a bore. And then you have kids and you just want to do the same thing.~

Abigail Adams is willing to risk her son's exposure to danger in Europe so that he can be at his fathers side, at an age where he can "most benefit from his father's example and precepts.

80There is no greater influence in the lives of your children than the words you speak over them. The blessing of the father is incredibly potent and powerful. Your words give your children potential. As their father, you are prophesying their future!