Esther Hicks Quotes

If you see in your children most of your own faults, you have failed as a parent, but succeeded as a neurotic.

For me, as much about being a parent as it is about being a child.

All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped.

Of some forty families I have been able to observe, I know hardly four in which the parents do not act in such a way that nothing would be more desirable for the child than to escape their influence.

The children of childish parents age quickly.

He saw the cause of his unhappiness in the family--the family as a social institution, which does not permit the child to become an independent individual at the proper time.

I think too often in our society parents, who may have good impulses, overreach and try to mold and shape and direct their child.

I think it's up to the parents to determine whether what they're doing is consigning their child to difficulty. It's not as though they were crippling their children after they were born.

If parents would only realize how they bore their children.

Good mothers and good fathers and good families don't always have great children.

A child identifies his parents with God, whether or not the adults want that role. Most children 'see' God the way they perceive their earthly fathers.

It is in the encounter of the maternal guiding instincts with the sensitive periods of the newly born that conscious love develops between parent and child.

There are two facts that all children need to disprove sooner or later; mother and father. If you go on believing in the fiction of your own parents, it is difficult to construct any narrative of your own.

Nobody can misunderstand a child as much as his own parents.

Like Adam, formed from clay, children are formed from the biological material of which they are made or by the hands of their parents.

One thing I have is that I have never been afraid to expose myself in a way, and I really think I got that from my mother. That's a great gift you can give to a child, that they have confidence in their abilities.

Parents cannot expect advice to have the same force upon their children as experience has upon themselves.

If you just got enough expertise and enough special techniques and read up enough, then you could shape a child into the kind of adult you wanted. There's almost this kind of competitive enterprise. That picture is the picture I think people often imply when they use the word "parenting".

When you have a child yourself, you go back and think about how you were parented, how you were mothered and what your parents did for you, and you just want to be able to call and ask them.

Whatever the parents are doing, the kids will follow suit.

What usually has the strongest psychic effect on the child is the life which the parents have not lived

As the family goes, so go the children.

Often parents communicate most effectively with their children by the way they listen to and address each other. Their conversations showing gentleness and love are heard by our ever-alert, impressionable children.

All of my short films are about marriages, and I think that this probably comes from some kind of unconscious fascination with my parents' story and what they went through.

Every word, movement and action has an effect. No other person or outside force has a greater influence on a child than the parent.