When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.
There comes a time when a woman needs to stop thinking about her looks and focus her energies on raising her children. This time comes at the moment of conception. A child needs a role model, not a supermodel.
- Astrid Alauda
“It is not what you do for your children, but what you have taught them to do for themselves that will make them successful human beings.”
-- Ann Landers
A cow is not the natural mother of your baby, neither is her milk the natural feed.
If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.
- Abigail Van Buren
Children may close their ears to advice. But their eyes are always open to examples.
Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy.
- Robert A. Heinlein
You don't really understand human nature unless you know why a child on a merry-go-round will wave at his parents every time around - and why his parents will always wave back.
- William D. Tammeus
A mother who is really a mother is never free.
- Honore de Balzac
Loving a child doesn't mean giving in to all his whims;
to love him is to bring out the best in him,
to teach him to love what is difficult.
- Nadia Boulanger
Believe me, my children have more stamina than a power station.
- Robbie Coltrane
Parenting is one of the hardest jobs on earth.
- Jennifer Aniston
Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.
- Anne Frank
Kids are a great analogy. You want your kids to grow up, and you don't want your kids to grow up. You want your kids to become independent of you, but it's also a parent's worst nightmare: That they won't need you. It's like the real tragedy of parenting.
- Jonathan Safran Foer
“What it's like to be a parent: It's one of the hardest things you'll ever do but in exchange it teaches you the meaning of unconditional love.”
- Nicholas Sparks
Mum, about those stretch marks, sleepless nights and endless dirty nappies... I promise, I'm worth it!
