Jane Gardam Quotes

We can't have children growing up feeling unloved - the price is too high for that.

Children need loving attention, closeness and deep affection and also loving touch. Love will make them feel safe.

Your parents don't give you much love, do they?' 'I don't need that stuff,' I told her. 'Henry, everybody needs love.' 'I don't need anything.' 'You poor boy.

Praise the child, and you make love to the mother.

Elie Wiesel says that the greatest evil in the world is not anger or hatred, but indifference. If that is true, then the opposite is also true: that the greatest love we can show our children is the attention we pay them, the time we take for them. Maybe we serve children the best simply by noticing them.

Children are like puppies: you have to keep them near you, and look after them, if you want their affection.

Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.

I have a passion for not only my own kids but just kids in general.

The best inheritance a parent can give his children is a few minutes of his time each day.

We're not raising children with the love that we need to.

The real question isn't whether you love your kids or not, but how well you are able to demonstrate your love and caring so that your children really feel loved.

As a person, the only people who matter are my kids and how they see me.

There is no job more important than parenting. This I believe.

When you have children love is always there in the best form.

Parents are supposed to give the child back to herself with love. If they've got duct tape over their eyes because of narcissism, it doesn't happen.

The most important seed I can sow in this life is my children, and the love and knowledge that I can bestow upon them and the help I can give them.

A parent who is high is unavailable to attend to the needs of a child.

Children in day care get the short end of the emotional stick.

As parents, we all want the best for our children.

Many parents know that hugging your children - telling them how amazing they are - is so important. Some parents, through no fault of their own, don't realise this. My mum was one of those who didn't realise, and I almost was too.

Not everybody loves their children. If that was a fact, all the children would be happy and they would make happy adults. Instead, we have lots of miserable children that later became miserable adults. This is a fact. We cannot change that.

And above all, children need our unconditional love - whether they succeed or make mistakes; when life is easy and when life is tough.

With children Love is spelled TIME.

Just be loving. You also have to recognize that you need to take the focus off yourself and put it on your children to give them a proper start in life.

I am most anxious to give my own children enough love and understanding so that they won't grow up with an aching void in them--like you and I and Harold and Martha. That can never be filled, and one goes around all one's life trying, trying to make up for what one didn't get that was one's birthright, asking the wrong people for it.