Jim Bishop Quotes

The meaning of self-esteem is to feel lovable and capable. As parents, we must love our children unconditionally and give them a sense of being nurtured. That's the lovable part. Then, we must provide structure - rules, boundaries, daily or weekly household tasks that give them a sense they are making a contribution. That's what helps kids grow up feeling capable.

The raising of a child is the building of a cathedral. You can't cut corners.

Most people try to make a better world for our children when what they should be doing is making better children for our world.

You think my kids just popped out of the ground?

If you've not been loved as a child, you don't know how to love a child.

Raising children should mean helping them to become what they already are in God’s eyes.

Having and raising children is doing something with your life! ... And I have to say that having your kids is one of the greatest things you can do.

I see children as kites. You spend a lifetime trying to get them off the ground. You run with them until you're both breathless. They crash . . . you add a longer tail . . . you patch and comfort, adjust and teach. You watch them lifted by the wind and assure them that someday they'll fly.

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

Reading to children at night, responding to their smiles with a smile, returning their vocalizations with one of your own, touching them, holding them - all of these further a child's brain development and future potential, even in the earliest months.

You have nothing in this world more precious than your children. When you grow old, when your hair turns white and your body grows weary, when you are prone to sit in a rocker and meditate on the things of your life, nothing will be so important as the question of how your children have turned out... Do not trade your birthright as a mother for some bauble of passing value... The baby you hold in your arms will grow as quickly as the sunrise and the sunset of the rushing days.

many tender, delicate mothers, seem to think that to make their children eat, is all that is requisite to make them great.

Looking after children is one of the ways of looking after yourself.

It is not possible to 'spoil' a child with love and affection...a child needs all the love and affection it can possibly get.

I love playing and chatting with children...feed ing and putting them to bed with a little story, and being away from the family has troubled me throughout my...life.

Let us treat them [children], therefore, with all the kindness which we would wish to help to develop in them.

For that's what a woman, a mother wants - to teach her children to take an interest in life. She knows it's safer for them to be interested in other people's happiness than to believe in their own.

"The twins no longer derive their sustenance from Nature's founts - in short," said Mr. Micawber, in one of his bursts of confidence, "they are weaned..."

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

Children make that big a difference to you? He asked. I nodded. Yeah, they do. I never figured you as the maternal type. I'm not, but kids are people, Edward, little people trapped by the choices the adults around them make.

A dutiful mother is someone who follows every step her child makes...And a good mother is someone whose child wants to follow her.

Obviously, discipline is necessary for children. Training is necessary for children. Just like if you want to train a vine, you have to apply physical manipulation to get it to go where you want it to go, but as it learns, then you don't have to do that.

A child is not a salmon mousse. A child is a temporarily disabled and stunted version of a larger person, whom you will someday know. Your job is to help them overcome the disabilities associated with their size and inexperience so that they get on with being that larger person.

In my limited experience, shows are like children. You can teach them manners and dress them in little sailor suits, but in the end, they're going to be who they're going to be.