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Shifu and Shimu are the spiritual parents of the dizi, and the Tai Ji Men community would not have existed with only one of them.

Marco Respinti

Let France have good mothers, and she will have good sons.

Napoleon

The more boring a child is, the more the parents, when showing off the child, receive adulation for being good parents — because they have a tame child-creature in their house.

Frank Zappa

Parenting is the science of art of upbringing children.

Simon Soloveychik Parenting for Everyone (1996)

Man hands on misery to man.
It deepens like a coastal shelf.
Get out as early as you can,
And don't have any kids yourself.

Philip Larkin

Oh, didn't I know it's the best we can do, sometimes, simply not to wish our children ill.

Sheri S. Tepper Beauty (1991)

“Damn it, Dad. You make me crazy.”
“That’s part of my job as a parent. If I read the manual correctly.”

Charles E. Gannon Marque of Caine (2019)

The commonest fallacy among women is that simply having children makes one a mother, which is as absurd as believing that having a piano makes one a musician.

Sydney J. Harris

A father would do well, as his son grows up, and is capable of it, to talk familiarly with him; nay, ask his advice, and consult with him about those things wherein he has any knowledge or understanding.

John Locke Some Thoughts Concerning Education (1693)

I suppose that every parent loves his child; but I know, without any supposing, that in a large number of homes the love is hidden behind authority, or its expression is crowded out by daily duties and cares.

Abbott Eliot Kittredge

What..should be the effort on the part of parents and educators? First, and above everything else, the effort should be made to provide an atmosphere wherein certain qualities can flourish and emerge...

Alice Bailey Education in the New Age (1954)

When we talk of parental influence we do not think of terror in connection with it—that is not the primary idea—it is not terror and coercion, but kindness and affection, which may bias the child's mind, and induce the child to do that which may be highly imprudent, and which, if the child were properly protected, he would never do.

William Wood, 1st Baron Hatherley Turner v. Collins (1871)

Every young adult has the potential power to help the entire world. He just needs the right guidance and support. A garden with different flowers becomes beautiful when it blossoms. Similarly, if parents learn how to be a ‘gardener’ and are able to recognize their child's personality and nourish it, then their ‘garden’ will become fragrant! This is what positive parenting is all about!

Dada Bhagwan PARENT – CHILD INTERACTION IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF A JUVENILE’S PERSONALITY (2019)

Many children harbor hidden anger and resentment toward their parents and often the cause is inauthenticity in the relationship. The child has a deep longing for the parent to be there as a human being, not as a role, no matter how conscientiously that role is being played. You may be doing all the right things and the best you can for your child, but even doing the best you can is not enough.

Eckhart Tolle A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose (2005)

Every person needs to be parented. By this I mean that every person needs to be helped, encouraged, and supported in becoming accountable to themselves and others. To not be threatened by taking other people into account. To not be frightened of difference.

Sarah Schulman Conflict Is Not Abuse: Overstating Harm, Community Responsibility, and the Duty of Repair (2016)

The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children.

Edward VIII

I started life with two great advantages: no money, and good parents.

Margaret Thatcher

Parents—so essential yet sometimes like something you have stepped in and cannot get off your shoe. What else is there but to love them?

Jeffrey Ford The Empire of Ice Cream (2006)

His choice here, no one else to blame. Sometimes, he thought, life was easier when you had people to stop you. Maybe that was something parents were good for.

Guy Gavriel Kay Ysabel (2007)

The only group in America that ought to be the final arbiters, the only group in America that deserves to scrutinize what we are doing, and then judge its worth... are parents.

Jack Valenti

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