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As every parent knows, children go through an adolescent growth spurt, during which they put on inches at an alarming rate. Humans are unique in this respect: most mammalian species, including apes, progress almost directly from infancy to adulthood (Parent Quotes)
Romance fails us and so do friendships, but the relationship of parent and child, less noisy than all the others, remains indelible and indestructible, the strongest relationship on earth (Parent Quotes)
The fear of hell, the punishment of sin, how the modern parent revolts from such teaching. Yet I will assert that far from doing us children harm, it was a sure foundation to the world of our confidence, a master girder in our palace of delight (Parent Quotes)
Anxiety is the poison of human life; the parent of many sins and of more miseries. In a world where everything is doubtful, and where we may be disappointed, and be blessed in disappointment, why this restless stir and commotion of mind? Can it alter the cause, or unravel the mystery of human events? (Parent Quotes)
How many hopes and fears, how many ardent wishes and anxious apprehensions are twisted together in the threads that connect the parent with the child! (Parent Quotes)
Our culture has become something that is completely and utterly in love with its parent. It’s become a notion of boredom that is bought and sold, where nothing will happen except that people will become more and more terrified of tomorrow, because the new continues to look old, and the old will always look cute (Parent Quotes)
In every dispute between parent and child, both cannot be right, but they may be, and usually are, both wrong. It is this situation which gives family life its peculiar hysterical charm (Parent Quotes)
Ambition is a gilded misery, a secret poison, a hidden plague, the engineer of deceit, the mother of hypocrisy, the parent of envy, the original of vices, the moth of holiness, the blinder of hearts, turning medicines into maladies, and remedies into diseases (Parent Quotes)
Whatever parent gives his children good instruction and sets them at the same time a bad example, may be considered as bringing them food in one hand and poison in the other (Parent Quotes)
Don’t assume your child is weak. If you, the parent, assume that they can’t take anymore, what kind of signal are you sending them? (Parent Quotes)
For all that being a parent is normal statistically, it’s not normal psychologically. It produces some of the most extreme emotions you’ll ever have (Parent Quotes)
My first priority is my children. If at any moment I put aside something that I want to do to be a better parent than that is more than okay for me (Parent Quotes)
The one thing about being a parent is the ability to be selfless: To give up the things you want and need for the benefit of someone else (Parent Quotes)
Being a parent is the hardest thing in the world... the psychological toll it takes on you because these lives are in your hands. I take it very seriously (Parent Quotes)
All parents gush about what it’s like to be a parent. I love it (Parent Quotes)
As a parent, you experience the most of everything. The most love, the most fear, the most hurt and the most tired, the most of every emotion (Parent Quotes)
A parent can seem very kind and gentle, but as any child knows, as soon as that parent gets stressed, they can suddenly turn and get a bit angry (Parent Quotes)
Every parent wants to know that their children are protected against those who have a particular agenda until they get old enough to make decisions for themselves (Parent Quotes)
There are times as a parent when you realize that your job is not to be the parent you always imagined you’d be, the parent you always wished you had. Your job is to be the parent your child needs, given the particulars of his or her own life and nature (Parent Quotes)
As any new parent knows, you’re only too happy to show off your new child and, you know, proclaim that he is the best looking or the best everything (Parent Quotes)
I don’t think I realised how stressed I was, being a single parent. It was really, really stressful. It’s not easy on anybody (Parent Quotes)
A book is meant not only to be read, but to haunt you, to importune you like a lover or a parent, to be in your teeth like a piece of gristle (Parent Quotes)
The classics tell us that, in relationships, the one between teacher and student comes second only to the one between parent and child (Parent Quotes)
You can’t teach children to be good. The best you can do for your child is to live a good life yourself. What a parent knows and believes, the child will lean on (Parent Quotes)
Training moments occur when both parents and children do their jobs. The parent’s job is to make the rule. The child’s job is to break the rule. The parent then corrects and disciplines. The child breaks the rule again, and the parent manages the consequences and empathy that then turn the rule into reality and internal structure for the child (Parent Quotes)
Nothing is ever quite right, is it, after a parent dies? No matter how well things go, something always feels slightly off (Parent Quotes)
There was so much of beauty here: the neat, small tracks of a foraging creature, stoat or marten; the inticate tracery of a skeleton leaf, still clinging vainly to its parent tree as, little by little, time stripped it of its substance, leaving only the delicate remembrance of what it had been (Parent Quotes)
You try as a parent. You love beyond reason. You fight beyond endurance. You hope beyond despair. You never think, until the very last moment, that it still might not be enough (Parent Quotes)
You want to give him the book of his own life, the book that will locate him, parent him, arm him for the changes (Parent Quotes)
I just want my kids to love who they are, have happy lives and find something they want to do and make peace with that. Your job as a parent is to give your kids not only the instincts and talents to survive, but help them enjoy their lives (Parent Quotes)