Artistic talent is far more common than the talent to artistic talent. Any parent with a hard hand can crush it, but to nurture it is much more difficult.
I think all of us are always five years old in the presence and absence of our parents.
We're [parents]) always bluffing, pretending we know best, when most of the time we're just praying we won't screw up too badly.
My parents were supportive of my creativity but did not have a lot of patience for whimsy with zero production value. They had stuff to do.
Have you ever noticed how parents can go from the most wonderful people in the world to totally embarrassing in three seconds?
I wanted to tell her that I loved her, and not in the complicated way I loved our parents, but in a simple way I never had to think about. I loved her like breathing.
A good coach can be a caring parent, a wise teacher, an exemplary pastor, a passionate friend or a devoted mentor. Keep in touch with all of them especially at the time they are needed.
Elisabeth had not had her future and her parents had not had theirs, there was nothing to this so-called future which was always promised to the young.
The classics tell us that, in relationships, the one between teacher and student comes second only to the one between parent and child.
On the whole she found erring children easier to deal with than their frantic parents, confirming her conclusion that marriage did strange things to the adult mind.
She has to live, Eliott. I owe her a lifetime of apologies.” “Sometimes I think that’s all we owe our parents.
Parenting is really just a matter of tracking, of hoping your kids do not get so far ahead you can no longer see their next moves.
In my family nudity just doesn’t exist; I’m pretty sure my parents were both born fully clothed and still shower that way.
I can trust in my parents' love. And it strikes me that is a big thing to trust, a big thing to have had, no matter what else happens.
If we keep punishing people for what their parents or their ancestors have done, the world as a whole can never move forward. Society will never grow.” -Triven
Stories arrest us. Parents use stories to capture the attention of active children. Preachers use stories to capture the attention of sleepy adults.
Our parents' generation carried the past memorialized in paint, porcelain, and wood; we cast it off. Even our national history is remembered in terms of the worst we did, not the best.
Anybody out there who is a parent, if your kids want to paint their bedrooms,as a favor to me, let them do it. It'll be OK.
The images I had were of people being driven mad by living in the city. Images of parents who were so hungry and unfulfilled that they ate their own children.
It takes dedicated parents to produce consecrated children.
It has become a cultural norm in Jewish families for parents to bring up their children to value wealth.
