Parenting Quotes - Page 6

An environment-based education movement-at all levels of education-will help students realize that school isn't supposed to be a polite form of incarceration, but a portal to the wider world.

The woods were my Ritalin. Nature calmed me, focused me, and yet excited my senses.

We have such a brief opportunity to pass on to our children our love for this Earth, and to tell our stories. These are the moments when the world is made whole. In my children's memories, the adventures we've had together in nature will always exist.

Why children?' he asked. 'Why always children? For love to end where it begins is far more beautiful, and Nature knows it.

In its complexity and sensuality, nature invites exploration, direct contact, and experience. But it also inspires a sense of awe, a glimpse of what is still "un-Googleable" . . . life's mystery and magnitude.

If we can keep ourselves from interfering with the natural laws of life, mistakes can be our child's finest teachers.

When we pour out our miseries, He hears a melody of us needing and desiring what only He can give.

The world talks to the mind. Parents speak more intimately; they talk to the heart.

On top of the abuse and neglect, denial heaps more hurt upon the child by requiring the child to alienate herself from reality and her own experience. In troubled families, abuse and neglect are permitted; it's the talking about them that is forbidden.

It was an earthquake, tearing at the sons of America, trying to swallow them up. Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful sons, that women had reared, had kissed and screamed at, and that fathers had stared intently in their cots, to see themselves in the wondrous mirrors of their babies.

There were nine casualties during the battle of Kirkuk. My husband was among them.

Every parent is an artist, but not every artist is apparent.

We usually need to have pain, trial or challenge to be motivated to learn or change. Learning in the midst of ease and prosperity comes from the pure inner soul’s inspired desire for improvement.

Expect to change yourself in order to change your life experience.

Realizing the emptiness of a "spirituality" - and of a "spiritual" nurture - that remains in the clouds need not bring us or our children to a dead end. It is a turning point. Now we can begin to deepen our awareness of the genuine spirituality of life's humblest moments.

You can't judge your parenting by the choices of your kids.

Your son is heir to an enormous fortune and name. Someone would be bound to bid for you him and take him as his ward.

Before I got married I had six theories about raising children; now, I have six children and no theories.

The value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults.

If you want kids, choose your girlfriend like your future child has the deciding vote.