Rearing A Child Quotes:

Child abuse is still sanctioned — indeed, held in high regard — in our society as long as it is defined as child-rearing. It is a tragic fact that parents beat their children in order to escape the emotions from how they were treated by their own parents.

- Alice Miller

topic: Children, Order, Long, Rearing A Child, Child Abuse

The first principle of child-rearing is to choose a good mother.

- Christian Morgenstern

topic: Christian, Mother, Children, Good Mother, Rearing A Child

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

- Robert Fulghum

topic: Marriage, Mother, Children, Happy Children, Inspirational Parenting

I looked on child rearing not only as a work of love and duty but as a profession that was fully as interesting and challenging as any honorable profession in the world and one that demanded the best that I could bring to it.

- Rose Kennedy

topic: Children, Women, Parenting, Inspirational Parents, Rearing A Child

Child-rearing is my main interest now. I'm a hands-on father.

- Sean Penn

topic: Children, Father, Hands, Rearing A Child, Child Rearing

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

- Harry S. Truman

topic: Funny, Leadership, Witty, Kid At Heart, Inspirational Parenting

Why in almost all societies have married women specialized in bearing and rearing children and in certain agricultural activities, whereas married men have done most of the fighting and market work?

- Gary Becker

topic: Marriage, Children, Fighting, Married Man, Rearing A Child

There are only two things a child will share willingly; communicable diseases and its mother's age.

- Benjamin Spock

topic: Funny, Mother, Children, Pediatrician, Funny Family

The fact is that child rearing is a long, hard job, the rewards are not always immediately obvious, the work is undervalued, and parents are just as human and almost as vulnerable as their children.

- Benjamin Spock

source: Benjamin Spock, Robert Needlman (2012). “Dr. Spock's Baby and Child Care: 9th Edition”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

topic: Jobs, Children, Parenting, Rearing A Child, Child Rearing

Child-rearing can be a tedious and thankless undertaking.

- Jessica Valenti

topic: Children, Child Rearing, Thankless, Rearing A Child

So no, it's not all in the genes, but what isn't in the genes isn't in the family environment either. It can't be explained in terms of the overall personalities or the child-rearing practices of parents.

- Steven Pinker

source: "A biological understanding of human nature". Edge Interview, www.edge.org. September 18, 2017.

topic: Children, Practice, Personality, Rearing A Child, Child Rearing

I'd love to adopt, but having a daughter, Daisy, who's in the middle of her teens, I'm now thinking: Is this a time to start all over again or is this a time to realise those child-rearing years are over?

- Joely Richardson

source: "Joely Richardson wants to adopt but not like Madonna". The Daily Mirror Interview, www.mirror.co.uk. May 30, 2008.

topic: Daughter, Mother, Children, Rearing A Child, Having A Daughter

Spare the rod and spoil the child.

- Samuel Butler

topic: Children, Punishment, Moments, Spanking, Spoiled Children

Selective ignorance, a cornerstone of child rearing. You don't put kids under surveillance: it might frighten you. Parents should sit tall in the saddle and look upon their troops with a noble and benevolent and extremely nearsighted gaze.

- Garrison Keillor

source: Garrison Keillor (1990). “Leaving Home”, p.22, Penguin

topic: Children, Ignorance, Kids, Rearing A Child, Selective

I had the experience last year of directing my first feature while I had a 1-year-old son and while I was also pregnant, so I am now well aware of the difficulties women who are rearing children face when they're also trying to make headway in mainstream of film.

- Diablo Cody

source: "Diablo Cody on the Challenge of Directing While Raising a Toddler, and Women in Film (Q&A)". Interview with Jordan Zakarin, www.hollywoodreporter.com. January 30, 2013.

topic: Children, Son, Years, Rearing A Child

One learns more of Christ in being married and rearing children than in several lifetimes spent in study in a monastery.

- Martin Luther

topic: Education, Children, Study, Rearing A Child

The job of rearing a child consists of making conscious activities unconscious.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

topic: Jobs, Children, Conscious, Rearing A Child

If you should prefer to understand that children are those human beings who have not yet found the grasp of their own minds, then the task you have given yourself, that task of rearing a child wisely and well, is suddenly transformed from indoctrination to education, in its truest sense, and made not only possible but even likely--provided, to be sure, one little prerequisite, which is that you are not a child, that you have come into the grasp of your mind.

- Richard Mitchell

topic: Children, Mind, Littles, Rearing A Child, Indoctrination

Heaven is the perfect place to raise children. Everything will be just the way it was intended to be in the beginning, a perfect environment without pain and danger, accidents and death and the horrors of this world. Babies won't have to cry. - They'll have everything they need. We'll be able to read their little minds, and we won't have to wonder what they're needing. Just think of all the advantages of rearing children in Heaven. It will be pure pleasure!

- David Berg

topic: Baby, Children, Pain, Rearing A Child, Little Minds

Pluck from under the family all the props which religion and morality have given it, strip it of the glamour, true or false, cast round it by romance, it will still remain a prosaic, indisputable fact, that the whole business of begetting, bearing and rearing children, is the most essential of all the nation's businesses.

- Eleanor Rathbone

topic: Family, Children, Romance, Rearing A Child, Begets

Writing a book is like rearing children -- willpower has very little to do with it. If you have a little baby crying in the middle of the night, and if you depend only on willpower to get you out of bed to feed the baby, that baby will starve. You do it out of love.

- Annie Dillard

topic: Baby, Children, Book, Middle Of The Night, Rearing A Child

Women who work at home rearing children and attending to various household tasks are expected to provide something that is absolutely essential yet costs nothing, like the air we breathe.

- Mary Jo Weaver

topic: Children, Home, Air, Rearing A Child

As far as rearing children goes, the basic idea I try to keep in mind is that a child is a person. Just because they happen to be a little shorter than you doesn't mean they are dumber than you.

- Frank Zappa

source: Frank Zappa, Peter Occhiogrosso (1990). “Real Frank Zappa Book”, p.251, Simon and Schuster

topic: Children, Mean, Ideas, Rearing A Child