Anne Bronte Quotes

If from infancy you treat children as gods, they are liable in adulthood to act as devils.

I'm not my mother. And so I'm not raising my kids in the same way. I don't respond in the same way. We don't spend our days in the same way because I don't necessarily enjoy the same things she likes to do.

It might suprise you to know I think I raised them too much, too

And Grandmother Hall really imagines that she can raise Eleanor and her two brothers differently than these children were raised. And if she is very strict and everything is very regimented and ordered and disciplined, that they will become the perfect children who her own children did not become.

The mother is the early care giver and primary source of identification for all children.... A daughter continues to identify with the mother

For example, parents who talk a lot to their children have kids with better language skills, parents who spank have children who grow up to be violent, parents who are neither too authoritarian or too lenient have children who are well-adjusted, and so on.

Anyone who has brought up children knows that consistency has absolutely nothing to do with discipline.

In a famous Middletown study of Muncie, Indiana, in 1924, mothers were asked to rank the qualities they most desire in their children. At the top of the list were conformity and strict obedience. More than fifty years later, when the Middletown survey was replicated, mothers placed autonomy and independence first. The healthiest parenting probably promotes a balance of these qualities in children.

Children are what the mothers are.

My mother and father have also raised five boys so they know there's only so much that can be controlled.

Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.

Some have said that 'Frankenstein' is a story of a bad parenting giving rise to a troubled child.

A child's first teacher is its mother.

While having two biological parents at home is, the statistics tell us, best for children, a single-parent household is almost as good.

When a father, absent during the day, returns home at six, his children receive only his temperament, not his teaching.

My mom was a terrible parent of young children. And thank God - I thank God every time I think of it - I was sent to my paternal grandmother. Ah, but my mother was a great parent of a young adult.

This whole generation of parents - I'm guilty of it too - does too much for their kids.

Parents should be the most important examples for their children.

If the agency of the mother in forming the character of her children is, in truth, so considerable, as I think it - if she does so much toward making her son what she would wish him to be - how essential is it that she should be fitted for the beneficial performance of these important duties.

Only recently - about five minutes ago, relative to the long-running human comedy - have parents been driving themselves to distraction by taking too seriously the idea that 'as the twig is bent the tree's inclined.'

Parents who obsess about every detail of child-rearing and orchestrate their children's 'resumes' may run themselves ragged while their own personal identities and adult relationships wither for lack of care.

Children are raised by single parents all the time. Those children - I'd like to claim myself as one, I was raised by a single mother who raised me incredibly well.

Cohabitation itself doesn't cause ineffective parenting.

When I was doing 'Family Ties,' I was not quite that mellow as a real father. In fact, my wife used to call me Captain Von Trapp from 'The Sound of Music.' I tended to be a little more authoritarian. I had been a very disciplined child myself, so I made the mistake of thinking one size fits all.

The way I'm raising my kids is so different than the way I was raised.