#parenting

Parenting, as an unpaid occupation outside the world of public power, entails lower status, less power, and less control of resources than paid work. ↗

— Nancy Chodorow

#entails #less #lower #occupation #outside

My kids love it. I thought I was the coolest dad in the world when I got to be in a Bond film, but 'Harry Potter', too? Well, I think I qualify for a medal for exceptional parenting or something, don't you? ↗

— Robbie Coltraine

#bond film #coolest #dad #exceptional #film

Believe me, my children have more stamina than a power station. ↗

— Robbie Coltrane

#believe #children #me #more #power

Even as kids reach adolescence, they need more than ever for us to watch over them. Adolescence is not about letting go. It's about hanging on during a very bumpy ride. ↗

— Ron Taffel

#about #adolescence #during #even #ever

No one knows his true character until he has run out of gas, purchased something on the installment plan and raised an adolescent. ↗

— Marcelene Cox

#adolescent #character #gas #his #installment

My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it. ↗

— Quentin Crisp

#father #me #mother #protected #threatened

I take parenting incredibly seriously. I want to be there for my kids and help them navigate the world, and develop skills, emotional intelligence, to enjoy life, and I'm lucky to be able to do that and have two healthy, normal boys. ↗

— Joan Cusack

#develop #emotional #enjoy #enjoy life #healthy

In short, with each of the thousand-and-one problems that present themselves in family life, our choice is between controlling and teaching, between creating an atmosphere of distrust and one of trust, between setting an example of power and helping children to learn responsibility, between quick-fix parenting and the kind that's focused on long-term goals. ↗

— Alfie Kohn

#family

Few things are more satisfying than seeing your children have teenagers of their own. ↗

— Doug Larson

#children #few #few things #more #own

Success for me its to raise happy, healthy human beings. ↗

— Kelly LeBrock

#beings #happy #healthy #human #human beings