Jane Fonda Quotes

I believe my readers are crazy about their parents and want to be just like them when they grow up.

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.

I had good parents, and even though they weren't around, they were always an influence on me.

What a child doesn't receive he can seldom later give.

It is a truism that children need more of Mother than of money.

It's about strengthening the relationship and the bond of parent to child.

Siblings are the guarantors that the private childhood world - so unlike the adult world that scientists are only just beginning to understand it - is a fully shared and objective one.

If you asked me, parents were supposed to affect the life of their child in such a way that the child grows up to be responsible, able to participate in life and in community.

When a child grows up without a father, there is an empty place where someone must stand, providing an example of character and confidence.

Words, especially when yelled in anger, can be very damaging to a child's self-confidence. The child probably already feels bad enough just from seeing the consequences of his or her behavior. Our sons and daughters don't need more guilt and self-doubt heaped upon their already wounded egos.

The fate of a child is in the hands of his parents.

She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.

It is no wonder that people are so horrible when they start their life as children.

An unhappy mother does not raise a happy child.

Growing up, my dad and my mom were there for my sister and I.

My mom was always very, very careful with my mind: what I saw and didn't see.

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

I appreciate my parents for everything they instilled in me and my brothers.

All things considered, there's nobody better for children than parents.

I believe that you need your parents the most. That's the most important thing.

The best way to raise positive children in a negative world is to have positive parents who love them unconditionally and serve as excellent role models.

If parents are the fixed stars in the child's universe, the vaguely understood, distant but constant celestial spheres, siblings are the dazzling, sometimes scorching comets whizzing nearby.

The greatest thing you can give a child is confidence.

I don't take it lightly that I brought a life into this world. They're waiting for you every day, these sweet little angels. You have to have time for them to interact on a daily basis.

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