Joyce Maynard Quotes

But kids don't stay with you if you do it right. It's the one job where, the better you are, the more surely you won't be needed in the long run.

To have a baby, raise him and educate him, is something very valuable. But we, as a society, don't see it that way.

I don't believe we own our children, they're their own souls who make their own choices, we just guide and support them.

You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.

I've raised three kids: my wife and I have three kids. I've observed through direct contact the adults they are now is partially the product of where they came from and what we did. With them growing up, but partially how they were wired at birth.

Being a parent is very important to me.

But I think role models also start in the home with your parents.

I'd also say having Jack's son Chris living with us from his 13th year on helped in raising Rick.

We are our children's first teachers.

I think children learn through their parents.

I think that it takes one person in the household to be a baseball fan for people to love baseball. And if you don't love baseball as a parent, your kids are not going to love it because you're not watching it.

Parents should be told that if they invest in the education and upbringing of a girl child, she will also make contributions for the family and society.

There's some people that are 24 hours with the baby and it doesn't make a difference. They could be anywhere.

Like Adam, formed from clay, children are formed from the biological material of which they are made or by the hands of their parents.

All people, even one's own children, come with baggage. When they're little, you have to help them carry it. But when they grow up, you have to do that difficult thing of setting their baggage down and taking up your own again.

I know of no more sacred duty than to rear and educate a child.

Training moments occur when both parents and children do their jobs. The parent's job is to make the rule. The child's job is to break the rule. The parent then corrects and disciplines. The child breaks the rule again, and the parent manages the consequences and empathy that then turn the rule into reality and internal structure for the child.

This is our first task-caring for our children. It's our first job. If we don't get that right, we don't get anything right. That's how, as a society, we will be judged.

The home is the child's first school, the parent is the child's first teacher, and reading is the child's first subject.

Parenthood is an endless series of small events, periodic conflicts, and sudden crises which call for a response. The response is not without consequence: it affects personality for better or for worse.

(About parenting:) ... all that tedium, broken up by little spurts of high drama.

The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up.

You think my kids just popped out of the ground?

I reckon that’s the risk you run, letting somebody else raise you chilluns.

To be a parent, especially to rock & roll kids, I think being a parent is the most difficult job on the face of the earth. You hate to say things that will upset your kids, but then sometimes you have to because you can't let them run around wild.