Parenting Quotes - Page 8

All problems, though appearing outside of you, must be resolved within YOU.

Look Beyond Motherhood and Parenting; Focus on the uniqueness of every Child.

As a parent who raised his children in dysfunction, I know the parental wounds my children received were not intentional; often they were my best expression of love, sometimes coming out sideways, not as I intended.

Applying parents values back to them allot of the time is like trying to pay back a guy who is a counterfeiter with his own counterfeit bills. "No, your supposed to think this is real money. I know it's not. I'm only pretending this is real money to get away with something. I don't actually want to receive it because I know it's fake money.

My husband says this longing for isolation is not a good quality, that if I wanted to be a hermit I should have moved to the West Coast and adopted a lot of cats, not gotten married and had children that demand to be fed several times a day.

Parenting should always come from a place of unconditional loving.

Embrace your beautiful mess of a life with your child. No matter how hard it gets, do not disengage... Do something - anything - to connect with and guide your child today. Parenting is an adventure of the greatest significance. It is your legacy." - Andy Kerckhoff, from Critical Connection

Adoption is the most intentional process on Earth.

Adoption is a beautiful, burdensome blessing.

Adoption is grief in reverse.

Responsibilities fall heaviest on those willing to take the load.

Stop using him, and start protecting him. I know he thinks he doesn't need it, but sometimes he does. Sometimes we all do.

And most of the failures in parent-child relationships, from my observation, begin when the child begins to acquire a mind and a will of its own, to make independent decisions and to question the omnipotence or the wisdom of the parent.

Genuine love for a child, it seems to me, must include a desire for his maturity and ultimately his independence. WAtching a personality unfold is perhaps the deepest pleasure of parenthood; wishing, or trying, to retard this growth is one of the deepest sins.

Parenthood doesn’t improve one’s character, it exposes it.

Beware of what you teach your children in the womb.

When a child reaches puberty, parents become so curious about their sex lives and whereabouts, put them behind bars to their own detriment. When such a child breaks free, don't be surprised to see him/her in porn movies.

I'm so cool that the kids come to my bedroom and go, 'Mom! Turn the music down!

I've realised now that the reality of children is you have to be in the right place with the right person.

But I was beginning to feel like it all fit together, the same way everything in the bowl ends up in the bisquits, as Amma would say.