Stephanie Klein Quotes

The original 'Artist's Way' focused on the nurturing of the self. The 'Artist's Way for Parents' focuses both on nurturing the self and nurturing the children in our care.

As a parent, if give yourself what you need, your children will watch you doing that and will give themselves what they need.

To me, Slow parenting is about bringing balance into the home. Children need to strive and struggle and stretch themselves, but that does not mean childhood should be a race. Slow parents give their children plenty of time and space to explore the world on their own terms.

If you're not yelling at your kids, then you're not spending enough time with them!

Having lived a full and stimulating life before I had my kids, I've relished every minute I've had to spend with them and felt a degree of confidence in dealing with their trials and tribulations to date.

I think a child requires initial years of a mother's attention, which is very important, and I did it without any thought in the world. That's what I wanted to do.

I've realised now that the reality of children is you have to be in the right place with the right person.

Perhaps the soundest advice for parents is: Lighten up. People have been raising children for approximately as long as there have been people.

I only know how to play bad mums because they're the best parts.

My job is to help parents give their children the best start in life.

Your kids want to know that you can see them and that you care and we're fortunate enough to be able to do that.

Moms, you should parent in whatever way works for your family and spend less time worrying about other people's perceptions of how you're doing.

I feel like I'm a really good mom.

It is very important for both the parents to spend quality time with their children, at least till they are eight years old, whatever be our social status, or even if grandparents are available to take care of them, and that is the message we try to drive home in 'Pasanga 2.'

My best parenting advice would be not to take the job too seriously. Teach your kids to be nice, and everything else falls into place.

Children succeed when grown-ups care about them.

It is important to give your kids that individualized attention while also making time for your marriage and for yourself.

I am a single mum. I raised my daughter, and she was very listened to.

I was a truly loving mom, but I didn't have the tools to do the job.

We're trying to raise good humans, and some days, we're better at it than others. You don't always get treats.

Nobody wants to be a bad parent.

If the day ever came when we were able to accept ourselves and our children exactly as we and they are, then, I believe, we would have come very close to an ultimate understanding of what 'good' parenting means.

How well we understand the kids' world is very important, and I myself am not claiming to be the perfect dad, and from feedbacks from Jo, I understand that more time should be spent with our children.

Parenting is no sport for perfectionists.

I want my children to see me first every morning, so I wake up at 5 and make sure to shower and exercise before they get up.