Christopher Robin Milne Quotes

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

All the time a person is a child he is both a child and learning to be a parent. After he becomes a parent he becomes predominantly a parent reliving childhood.

A child's first teacher is its mother.

There comes a moment as a parent when you realize you will no longer be the center of your child's universe.

The character and history of each child may be a new and poetic experience to the parent, if he will let it.

Parents are the designated caregivers and are best suited for being able to raise children.

If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.

One thing they never tell you about child raising is that for the rest of your life, at the drop of a hat, you are expected to know your child's name and how old he or she is.

If the agency of the mother in forming the character of her children is, in truth, so considerable, as I think it - if she does so much toward making her son what she would wish him to be - how essential is it that she should be fitted for the beneficial performance of these important duties.

This whole head of the home thing has been blown way out of proportion. Some guys just take it way too far. Some parents take it way too far. Yet children need guidance. They need a parent to help and guide them. They also need a friend. They need a confidant.

When you have children, your perspective on the parent-child relationship alters.

I was raised mostly by my mom.

I'm coming to that realization that I'm going to be seen as a mom to someone, and it makes you think about your own parents. You know, who were they?

What I continue to learn as a parent is to be mindful of the fact that I am responsible for being the parent that my children need me to be and not necessarily the parent I want to be.

People forget how the same children brought up with affection, effort, and love are the ones who later kick their parents.

Every child needs both parents.

When we choose to be parents, we accept another human being as part of ourselves, and a large part of our emotional selves will stay with that person as long as we live. From that time on, there will be another person on this earth whose orbit around us will affect us as surely as the moon affects the tides, and affect us in some ways more deeply than anyone else can. Our children are extensions of ourselves.

Each child is biologically required to have a mother. Fatherhood is a well-regarded theory, but motherhood is a fact.

While having two biological parents at home is, the statistics tell us, best for children, a single-parent household is almost as good.

Parents are your teachers until a certain point, and if they don't give you love, you'll go somewhere else to find it.

I know how sobering and exhausting parenthood is. But the reality is that our children's future depends on us as parents. Because we know that the first years truly last forever.

As a parent I provide all I can, but I think in the best possible scenario you need to have a man.

Parents know how to push your buttons because, hey, they sewed them on.

And part of that is, what is the point of having children if you don't have the privilege of bringing them up?

I love children and I love family and I love that interaction. Because I had a really close relationship with my mother, I understand that deep powerful love, and it's so beautiful. To be a mother to a child is the most brilliant gift; it's gorgeous.