Eckhart Tolle Quotes

I will never understand children. I never pretended to. I meet mothers all the time who make resolutions to themselves. 'I'm going to ... go out of my way to show them I am interested in them and what they do. I am going to understand my children.' These women end up making rag rugs, using blunt scissors.

Kids need to open up to their parents. And parents should realize that when kids are pushing you away, that's the time to really step in.

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

Of children as of procreation -- the pleasure momentary, the posture ridiculous, the expense damnable

When a child walks in the room, your child or anybody else’s child, do your eyes light up? That’s what they’re looking for.

A baseball manager has learned a lot about his job from having played the game, but a parent has not learned a thing from having once been a child.

I firmly believe, however, that if your children have never hated you, you have failed as a parent.

The moment when you are most repelled by a child's behavior, that is your warning light to draw the very closest to that child.

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

They say that parenting is like dancing. You take one step, your child takes another.

[Children] use up the same part of my head as poetry does. To deal with children is a matter of terrific imaginative identification. And the children have to come first. It's no use putting off their evening meal for two months.

I thought that once we were out of the baby stage, parenting would be a breeze.

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

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

That's one thing I find about having children - it does unlock a door that separates you from other women who've had children.

Being a developmental psychologist didn't make me any better at dealing with my own children, no. I muddled through, and, believe me, fretted and worried with the best of them.

I'm not a parenting expert by any means, but I've been interviewing and writing about kids for almost 20 years.

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.

It is not possible for any institutions to interfere in the way parents raise their children.

The early socialization of a child is crucial.

I have never had a nanny with any of my children.

I'll never get sick of raising my children, but other people might get sick of them.

In considering the ledger equal, understand the greatest gift you have given your parents is the opportunity to raise you. The things a child gets from parents can't compare to the things a parent gets from raising a child. Only by experiencing this can you understand the degree to which children give meaning to parents' lives.

I think when you have children, it just changes your worldview.