parents


Random quote of the day:

“Women without children are also the best of mothers, often, with the patience, interest, and saving grace that the constant relationship with children cannot always sustain. I come to crave our talk and our daughters gain precious aunts. Women who are not mothering their own children have the clarity and focus to see deeply into the character of children webbed by family. A child is fortunate who feels witnessed as a person, outside relationships with parents by another adult.”

― Louise Erdrich, The Blue Jay’s Dance: A Memoir of Early Motherhood

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Random quote of the day:

“Children rarely want to know who their parents were before they were parents, and when age finally stirs their curiosity there is no parent left to tell them.”

—Russell Baker, Growing Up

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Random quote of the day:

“Most of our earliest programming comes from our parents. Whether we like it or realize it, we absorb their habits and beliefs at an age when we are under their control and unable to do much about it. Their concerns and values act on us for the better part of our lives, and unless we redefine ourselves and form our own beliefs, we continue to run our parents’ programs in our thoughts and actions.”

—Famous Amos, Watermelon Magic

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Random quote of the day:

“If you think you are so enlightened go and spend a week with your parents.”

—attributed to Ram Dass

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Random quote of the day:

“Love your children reliably and they’ll gracefully outgrow you. Ignore them and they’ll be obsessed with you for life.

—Alain de Botton, Twitterfeed, January 17, 2012

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Random quote of the day:

“Any suburban mother can state her role sardonically enough in a sentence: it is to deliver children—obstetrically once and by car forever after.”

—Peter De Vries, “Humorists Depict the Suburban Wife,” Life Magazine, Dec. 24, 1956

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Random quote of the day:

“Parenting is a serious responsibility. It is the hardest job in the world to do, yet it’s the easiest job to get—no education, no training, no experience with kids (of any age), no test, no interviews, no probation period, no periodic evaluations and hardly any risk of being fired.”

—Jerry Steinberg, “License to Parent,” Founder of No Kidding!

(Thanks to adarkjewel for this quote.)

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