Quotes of: Parental Keyword

Children do not experience our intentions, no matter how heartfelt. They experience what we manifest in tone and behavior.

Hold On to Your Kids: Why Parents Need to Matter More Than Peers

Alcoholism or addiction is a disease because it fits the definition of disease. It is progressive and chronic, and left untreated, it will kill.

Not Like My Mother: Becoming a Sane Parent After Growing Up in a Crazy Family

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.

Mommy Knows Worst: Highlights from the Golden Age of Bad Parenting Advice

The risks of liberty we must let everyone take; but the risks of ignorance and self-helplessness are another matter.

Misalliance/The Dark Lady of the Sonnets/Fanny's First Play with a Treatise on Parents and Children

One of pleasures of parenting, future reader: parent can positively influence kid, make moment kid will remember for rest of life, moment that alters his/her trajectory, opens up his/her heart + mind.

Tenth of December

A wife who loses a husband is called a widow. A husband who loses a wife is called a widower. A child who loses his parents is called an orphan. There is no word for a parent who loses a child. That’s how awful the loss is.

An Orphan's Tale

Kids will remember less what we did for them and more how we spoke and reacted to them.

The "Perfect" Parent: 5 Tools for Using Your Inner Perfection to Connect with Your Kids

Listening is an attitude of the heart, a genuine desire to be with another which both attracts and heals. (attr to J. Isham)

Respectful Parents, Respectful Kids: 7 Keys to Turn Family Conflict into Cooperation

For a child, it is in the simplicity of play that the complexity of life is sorted like puzzle pieces joined together to make sense of the world.

Two Thousand Kisses a Day: Gentle Parenting Through the Ages and Stages

It’s tough to lose one parent, but to lose two—in a murder/suicide no less! But it’s OK, soon after the incident I found out I was abandoned as a baby, so they weren’t my real parents anyway.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

I grew up in an environment where the onus of raising a child was not on the parents alone but of the entire community. The logic is in that a child who becomes a burden or an armed robber becomes a threat not only to the parents but to a whole socie...

Through the Gates of Thought

I’m an only child, so logically I gave birth to my parents, because if it weren’t for me they wouldn’t be parents at all, they’d simply be a married couple. (Or maybe without me they wouldn’t even have been married!) 

This Book Has No Title

This communal parenting brought me out of the privacy of our foreign enclave and into the public life of the community. Here, parenting was everyone’s responsibility; all adults were "aunties" and "uncles".

Unsavory Elements: Stories of Foreigners on the Loose in China

How we feel about our kids isn't as important as how they experience those feelings and how they regard the way we treat them.

Unconditional Parenting: Moving from Rewards and Punishments to Love and Reason

Women are brought up to believe you are going to be the better parent and you know what's best. I don't think that's necessarily true. As much as we have to ask men to step it up, we have to take a look at ourselves and be willing to give up some of ...

Jessica Valenti

Courage starts with showing up and letting ourselves be seen.

Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead

My father spoke with his hands. He was deaf. His voice was in his hands. And his hands contained his memories.

Hands of My Father: A Hearing Boy, His Deaf Parents, and the Language of Love

The parent is the strongest statement that the child hears regarding what it means to be alive and real. More than what we say or do, the way we are expresses what we think it means to be alive. So the articulate parent is less a telling than a liste...

Polly Berrien Berends

...And so we go and I meet his parents. And it's a very strange thing meeting your girlfriend's boyfriend's parents for the first time. Part of you is angry for obvious reasons and part of you still wants to make a good impression. On a side note, th...

Mike Birbiglia

Start worshipping your parents and grandparents before you worship God. You will see a glimpse of divinity in that process. Practice worshipping your parents first and MickeyMize your chances for being worthy of higher worship. Share this to increase...

Mickey Mehta

As parents, can we counter the effect of television violence? One worrying feature in Britain is that so many TV sets are in a child's bedroom; this means that the mediating effect of watching with a parent, the ability to discuss and interpret what ...

Robert Winston