Loving Children Quotes

It's easy enough to get along with a loved and loving child - at least till you try to get him to do something.

Till I loved I never lived.

I never want to lose the story-loving child within me, or the adolescent, or the young woman, or the middle-aged one, because all together they help me to be fully alive on this journey, and show me that I must be willing to go where it takes me, even through the valley of the shadow.

Of course I wanted children. Bright, gorgeous, loving children. I could almost see them.

My loving children, my children who were created with God's beauty, my wise children, whatever difficulty you may have, do not ever leave His charge. Just as the prophets of God kept their faith firm and were tolerant in spite of the problems they had, no matter what difficulties you may experience, be tolerant, be forbearant and embrace all living things as your own life.

No language can express the power and beauty and heroism of a mother's love.

Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.

Olive Ann describes Sanna as 'a perfectionist and a worrier.' She is obsessed with the idea of finding happiness, and for her, as Olive ann wrote in her notes for the novel, 'happiness means being first with somebody, having perfect, loving children...The theme of Sanna is disillusionment,' Olive Ann wrote. 'Her life is the pursuit of happiness and perfection, but she finds happiness and perfection impossible to obtain-her idea of happiness is constant joy, no changes.

Children, dear and loving children, can alone console a woman for the loss of her beauty.

A child seldom needs a good talking to as a good listening to.

Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.

Kids go where there is excitement. They stay where there is love.

Only mothers can think of the future - because they give birth to it in their children.

There's nothing that can help you understand your beliefs more than trying to explain them to an inquisitive child.

Encourage & support your kids because "Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.

If I had my child to raise all over again,I'd finger paint more, and point the finger less.I'd do less correcting, and more connecting.I'd take my eyes off my watch, and watch with my eyes.I would care to know less, and know to care more.I'd take more hikes and fly more kites.I'd stop playing serious, and seriously play.I'd run through more fields, and gaze at more stars.I'd do more hugging, and less tugging.I would be firm less often, and affirm much more.I'd build self esteem first, and the house later.I'd teach less about the love of power, and more about the power of love.

When you go into a college of education you've got aspirations of making a difference in people's lives, of loving children, of working with kids, but none of that is affirmed in your college of education. Then you go working in schools, especially in places like New York City and Chicago that I'm most familiar with, and you find these huge aspirations are beaten out of you in a very systematic way - and still people persevere.

Look at The Iliad, there's all this stuff about men loving children. The King of Sparta was the most brutal warrior of ancient Greece, and the only thing he liked to do was horse around with kids when he was back from slaughtering. One thing that feminism revealed is that being a distant patriarchal figure was not something men wanted to be. They want to be more involved in the lives of their children, and you can see that once they're allowed to have that connection, they crave it.

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Your children will become what you are; so be what you want them to be

Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.

Children are the anchors of a mother's life.

A baby is born with a need to be loved - and never outgrows it.

Women, you can have it all - a loving man, devoted husband, loving children, a fabulous career.

In order to develop normally, a child requires progressively more complex joint activity with one or more adults who have an irrational emotional relationship with the child. Somebody's got to be crazy about that kid. That's number one. First, last and always.

Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.

Nobody around here had ever seen a lady beekeeper till her. She liked to tell everybody that women made the best beekeepers, 'cause they have a special ability built into them to love creatures that sting. It comes from years of loving children and husbands.