#pare

Why isn't there a commandment to "honor thy children" or at least one to "not abuse thy children"? The notion that we must honor our parents causes many people to bury their real feelings and set aside their own needs in order to have a relationship with people they would otherwise not associate with. Parents, like anyone else, need to earn respect and honor, and honoring parents who are negative and abusive is not only impossible but extremely self-abusive. Perhaps, as with anything else, honoring our parents starts with honoring ourselves. For many adult children, honoring themselves means not having anything to do with one or both of their parents. ↗

— Beverly Engel

#child #parent #respect

So much is asked of parents, and so little is given. ↗

— Virginia Satir

#given #little #much #parents

My brother and I were able to fantasize far more extravagantly about our parents' tastes and desires, their aspirations and their vices, by scanning their bookcases than by snooping in their closest. Their selves were on their shelves. ↗

— Anne Fadiman

#bookshelves #parents #shelves #aspiration

If we never have headaches through rebuking our children, we shall have plenty of heartaches when they grow up. ↗

— Charles H. Spurgeon

#heartache

I'm involved in some action scenes, so they'll train me for that. I'll be working with my acting coach to prepare for my character. ↗

— Aaliyah

#action #character #coach #i #involved

There is nothing that compares to an unexpected round of applause. ↗

— Lynn Abbey

#compares #nothing #round #unexpected

When fast food is not a treat but a dietary staple, the children surf the internet all day in dark corners of the room and are bombarded with latest gadgets. Things replace parental standards. ↗

— Diane Abbott

#bombarded #children #corners #dark #day

As a parent, I have a job as a role model to my children, and by extension, to other young people. ↗

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#extension #i #job #model #other

The unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he injures are always in his sight. ↗

— Joseph Addison

#always #his #injures #loaded #parent

Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue. ↗

— Hosea Ballou

#ambition #itself #often #parent #though