Frank Pittman Quotes

Our children give us the opportunity to become the parents we always wished we'd had.

When we choose to be parents, we accept another human being as part of ourselves, and a large part of our emotional selves will stay with that person as long as we live. From that time on, there will be another person on this earth whose orbit around us will affect us as surely as the moon affects the tides, and affect us in some ways more deeply than anyone else can. Our children are extensions of ourselves.

Children can scarcely be fashioned to meet with our likes and our purpose. Just as God did us give them, so must we hold them and love them, nurture and teach them to fullness and leave them to be what they are.

It is easy to say that you can adopt the whole human race as your children, but it is not the same as living in a home with a child and shaping all you do to help him learn to be happy and whole and good. Don't live your life without ever holding a child in your arms, on your lap, in your home, and feeling a child's arms around you and hearing his voice in your ear and seeing his smile, given to you because you put it into your heart.

Parents are often so busy with the physical rearing of children that they miss the glory of parenthood, just as the grandeur of the trees is lost when raking leaves.

Since the beginning of time, every child on the planet has endeavored to please their parents.

I've had three of my own children and spent my professional life thinking about children. And yet I still find my relation to my children deeply puzzling.

I have two kids, and anyone who has a kid in order to feel loved is going to be in trouble because kids are first and foremost all about themselves. They'll say they love you, but 10 seconds later they'll turn on you.

That's what children are for—that their parents may not be bored.

You are not a man until you give your love, truly and freely to a child. And you are not a good man until you earn the love, truly and freely, of a child in return.

It's a long haul bringing up our children to be good; you have to keep doing that — bring them up — and that means bringing things up with them: Asking, telling, sounding them out, sounding off yourself — finding, through experience, your own words, your own way of putting them together. You have to learn where you stand, and make sure your kids learn [where you stand], understand why, and soon, you hope, they'll be standing there beside you, with you.

Kids grow up awfully fast these days,"she said. "You should try to have a good relationship with your kids, no matter what they do.

Someone once told me that children are like heroin. You always want more. Yet first-borns are special because you'll never have your first child again.

I hope everyone can examine what is the most important relationship in life - the relationship between parent and child.

I think being a parent is the most challenging thing you do. That's why we're here. It's at the heart of what it is to be a human being. It's the ultimate experience because it questions everything about who you are. But it's difficult.

Raising children is an enormously important part of life. I think one of the most important, or the most important, period.

The character and history of each child may be a new and poetic experience to the parent, if he will let it.

Witnessing the bond between a parent and their little ones firsthand really brought home to me how much I was missing.

I don't think people who have children are acting selfishly or unselfishly. Having a child who'll be loved, to parents who love each other, is the important thing.

I am basically in awe of every family's ability to make decisions for their kids.

We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us.

I mostly want to be friends with my children.

I think having children in general is always very helpful for acting.

And part of that is, what is the point of having children if you don't have the privilege of bringing them up?

Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them.