#parenting

Having a baby changes the way you view your in-laws. I love it when they come to visit now. They can hold the baby and I can go out. ↗

— Matthew Broderick

#baby #changes #come #go #having

If Mother had to be told not to shove the entire brick of Ivory up Junior's hindquarters, constipation is the least of his problems. ↗

— James Lileks

#parenting #age

Family life was wonderful. The streets were bleak. The playgrounds were bleak. But home was always warm. My mother and father had a great relationship. I always felt 'safe' there. ↗

— Robert Cormier

#always #bleak #family #family life #father

There's really no point in having children if you're not going to be home enough to father them. ↗

— Anthony Edwards

#children #enough #father #going #having

We do children an enormous disservice when we assume that they cannot appreciate anything beyond drive through fare and nutritionally marginal, kid-targeted convenience foods. Our children are capable of consuming something that grew in a garden or on a tree and never saw a deep fryer. They are capable of making it through diner at a sit-down restaurant with tablecloths and no climbing equipment. Children deserve quality nourishment. ↗

— Victoria Moran

#diet #food #nutrition #parenting #beauty

Love is staying up all night with a sick child - or a healthy adult. ↗

— David Frost

#adult #all night #child #healthy #love

Dads. Do you not realize that a child is what you tell them they are? That people almost always become what they are labeled? Was whatever your child just did really the “dumbest thing you’ve ever seen somebody do”? Was it really the “most ridiculous thing they ever could have done”? Do you really believe that your child is an idiot? Because she now does. Think about that. Because you said it, she now believes it. Bravo. ↗

— Dan Pearce

#arguing #break #child #children #dads

If you're asking your kids to exercise, then you better do it, too. Practice what you preach. ↗

— Bruce Jenner

#asking #better #exercise #kids #practice

If your boundary training consists only of words, you are wasting your breath. But if you 'do' boundaries with your kids, they internalize the experiences, remember them, digest them, and make them part of how they see reality. ↗

— Henry Cloud

#parenting #experience

Only those few who are able to surpass their fear of death completely can fully experience the highest forms of life; not the mundane life of the mortal, but the godly life of the resurrected. ↗

— Zeena Schreck

#buddhism #death #left-hand-path #magic #parenting