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Quotes about Parenting

Repeating "because I said so" a thousand times is not nearly as effective as one irrational explanation.

Krista Delle Femine
 
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We have to teach young people that "No" is a complete sentence.

Gavin De Becker
Source: The Gift of Fear
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We must learn and then teach our children that niceness does not equal goodness. Niceness is a decision, a strategy of social interaction; it is not a character trait. People seeking to control others almost always present the image of a nice person in the beginning.

Gavin De Becker
Source: The Gift of Fear
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Our babies cried when we left them and we cry when they leave us.  Echoes.  Proud almost to arrogance then, we pushed them about in their carriages.  Dutifully, wearily now, they push us about in our chairs.
Our children don't know us as we are now.  Less do they know us as we were.  Oh, how I wish they could have known us as we were.  Do rou think they would recognize their young selves in our young selves?  I wish they could have seen us in all our clumsiness and selfishness, which is so like their own clumsiness and selfishness right now.  There's another echo for you.
We believed the fairy tales we told our children and we loved them beyond reason even when we were green and bungling about it.  We were children loving our children.  And that's who we are still.

Marlena De Blasi
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Children follow your footsteps, not your advice.

Krista Delle Femine
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Learning how to become emotionally literate is one of the best investments that human beings can make for themselves, their children, and the future.

Ayman Sawaf
 
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Ignorance can be bliss--without it, far fewer children would be born!

Jennifer Hart
Source: Marley Rides, Page: 16
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You can't raise positive people on negative feedback.

Kare Anderson
Source: Say it Better blog- Kare Anderson
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(as spoken by Atticus Finch)

When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness' sake.  But don't make a production of it. Children are children, but they can spot an evasion quicker than adults, and evasion simply muddles 'em.

Harper Lee
Source: To Kill a Mockingbird
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A woman has the greatest opportunity to provide the best outcome for a baby and its potentialities. Not only by having a conscious and definite will to form the child accordingly to the highest ideal she can conceive, but first and foremost having the aspiration to work on herself.

Sri Aurobindo : Gaia Explorer
Sri Aurobindo
Source: Sri Aurobindo/Mother on Education
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Healing the Earth, through Healing Birth.

Jeannine Parvati Baker
 
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