Neither your mother nor I have any imagination at all and we certainly didn't bring you up to have one
No mother is ever, completely, a child's idea of what a mother should be, and I suppose it works the other way around as well. But despite everything, we didn't do too badly by one another, we did as...
The natural term of the affection of the human animal for its offspring is six years.
There's nothing like your mother's sympathetic voice to make you want to burst into tears.
We're taught to expect unconditional love from our parents, but I think it is more the gift our children give us. It's they who love us helplessly, no matter what or who we are.
She hated everything her parents loved
The greatest gift a parent can give a child is self-confidence.
Maybe I am getting too grown to want to sleep with Mama. But like a baby, I still have this smallness to my mind. I don't need her hands to convince me the world I can't see from under my blanket is r...
And if one day there's distanceBetween your hand and mine,When our hands join once again,My heart and soul will shine.
Is that what love is all about? Needing them to come back to you when they're away? To come home and keep you safe?
The best thing parents can do for their children is allow them to be who they were born to be.
Only children simply accept the fact that their parents have the right to make choices for them. Even disobedient children never question the fact that their parents have that right. They may choose t...
The affection of parents makes infants feel safe in this dangerous world, and gives them boldness in experimentation and in exploration of their environments.
To reform the world - means to reform upbringing...
Oh no-"she began.It shocked her to be right. Parent's were right, not children. Children could say anything, Arriety knew and enjoy saying it- knowing always they were safe and wrong.
Out of all the things I do, I think being a mom is the most important and satisfying.
Our parents can show us a lot of things: they can show us how we are to be and what things we ought to strive for, or they can show us how not to be and what things we ought to stray from, then you ma...
Actually, they were very strange parents,' I told her. 'Neither of them were what you might call conventional people. And they had an extremely peculiar approach to parenting. Sometimes I felt as if I...
There are parents who use their small children as weapons. They are weak people. Sick people. And their children are watching them, watching how Mom and Dad use them as weapons.
Who you are is enough for me. I look at you and all I see, is the champion I knew you would be.
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