Quotes of: Single-parent Keyword

And most of the failures in parent-child relationships, from my observation, begin when the child begins to acquire a mind and a will of its own, to make independent decisions and to question the omnipotence or the wisdom of the parent.

The Best of Sydney J. Harris

My parents were concerned that I would not get good schooling, so they put me up in my uncle's house in Dharwad, and I spent about six years there. So at a very young age, I was away from my parents. I developed an amount of independence and learned ...

Nandan Nilekani

No matter who you are, what you've accomplished, what your financial situation is - when you're dealing with a parent with Alzheimer's, you yourself feel helpless. The parent can't work, can't live alone, and is totally dependent, like a toddler. As ...

Maria Shriver

I know some of my parents' friends think 'Little Britain' is in incredibly poor taste. But swimming the Channel? You can't really say anything negative about that, can you? There's nothing better than making your parents happy. The glee on my father'...

David Walliams

We come from fallible parents who were kids once, who decided to have kids and who had to learn how to be parents. Faults are made and damage is done, whether it's conscious or not. Everyone's got their own 'stuff,' their own issues, and their own an...

Chris Pine

Passion is not a reaction to an external event. It is the left over emotions from the internal battles you have won that propels you forward.

300 Questions to Ask Your Parents Before It's Too Late

Learn to love someone when they least deserve it, because that is when they need your love most.

Advice My Parents Gave Me: and Other Lessons I Learned from My Mistakes

Many people are so poor that the only thing they have is money. Cultivate your spiritual growth.

Advice My Parents Gave Me: and Other Lessons I Learned from My Mistakes

Erase self-doubt by working to build your strengths instead of focusing on your weaknesses.

Advice My Parents Gave Me: and Other Lessons I Learned from My Mistakes

When it is managed effectively, in-home nursing can become a support for caregivers and families stressed with the care of a medically fragile child.

Home Care CEO: A Parent's Guide to Managing In-home Pediatric Nursing

Think of instinct as an unscientific, unquantifiable tool that can be used along with more concrete evaluations to make a well-rounded decision.

Home Care CEO: A Parent's Guide to Managing In-home Pediatric Nursing

Being thoughtful about the comfort and needs of the people who work in your home is a characteristic of a great Home Care CEO.

Home Care CEO: A Parent's Guide to Managing In-home Pediatric Nursing

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