Parent Child Relationship Quotes

There's a really unique relationship between a single parent and their child. Marriages so easily break up. There's kind of this temporary deal about marriages. That's one of the things that makes it stressful, and that's something that's nonexistent in a parent-child relationship.

When you have children, your perspective on the parent-child relationship alters.

It's about strengthening the relationship and the bond of parent to child.

Children are our second chance to have a great parent-child relationship.

There's always the syndrome of the parent-child relationship: when someone has known you since you were very young, it doesn't matter how much more independent, how much older or more mature you get - there is still that element, the dynamic of the relationship that is very hard to successfully transform, and that has nothing to do with the music-making, in the end.

I'm attracted to how fraught the parent-child relationship is, swerving so easily between love and hostility, with almost no plausible way to end, unless someone dies.

The parent-child relationship in the home usually reflects the objective cultural conditions of the surrounding social structure. If the conditions which penetrate the home are authoritarian, rigid, and dominating, the home will increase the climate of oppression. As these authoritarian relations between parents and children intensify, children in their infancy increasingly internalize the paternal authority.

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

Live so that when your children think of fairness, caring, and integrity, they think of you.

What a child doesn't receive he can seldom later give.

When any relationship is characterized by difference, particularly a disparity in power, there remains a tendency to model it on the parent-child-relationship. Even protectiveness and benevolence toward the poor, toward minorities, and especially toward women have involved equating them with children.

Children do learn what they live. Then they grow up to live what they've learned.

Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.

We never know the love of the parent for the child till we become parents.

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

In Afghan society, parents play a central role in the lives of their children; the parent-child relationship is fundamental to who you are and what you become and how you perceive yourself, and it is laden with contradictions, with tension, with anger, with love, with loathing, with angst.

Children are just different from one another, especially in temperament. Some are shy, others bold; some active, others quiet; some confident, others less so. Respect for individual differences is in my view the cornerstone of good parent-child relationships.

And most of the failures in parent-child relationships, from my observation, begin when the child begins to acquire a mind and a will of its own, to make independent decisions and to question the omnipotence or the wisdom of the parent.

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

The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.

When you look at your life the greatest happinesses are family happinesses.

The best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.

It is a wise father that knows his own child.