Nurturing Environment Quotes

Nature, like a kind and smiling mother, lends herself to our dreams and cherishes our fancies.

Don't try to make children grow up to be like you, or they may do it.

My mother dreamed dreams for Joaquin and for me long before we could dream them for ourselves.

This is what a family is all about - one another, sitting around the table at night. And it's very, very important, I think, for the kid to spend time not only around the table eating with their parents, but in the kitchen.

It takes a village to raise a child.

I'm lucky to attribute my success to the foundation my family gave me. I've always felt grounded in them.

I don't remember my mother ever playing with me. And she was a perfectly good mother. But she had to do the laundry and clean the house and do the grocery shopping.

They're not the sharpest people - babies. So, you must be everything to them.

I was a terrible father. The most I ever did for my children was to teach them chess. At least they got that.

The child becomes largely what it is taught; hence we must watch what we teach it, and how we live before it.

I adore my mother, and I am probably a chef because of my mother. She was adventurous.

I had a strong, really good upbringing, not puritanical.

I'm afraid in my family we still laugh now about the fact that I was called 'stubborn' and my brother was called 'determined.'

It's one thing to support your kid, but if you have an interest in what your child is doing, it makes it a whole lot easier.

The number one predictor of a man being successful is seeing his father loving his mother. […] That’s defined as a dad who stays home, and is faithful to mom. As a dad, you have one job. Love her. If you want to raise successful kids, especially boys, you have one job: Love his mom.

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

Every mom believes her kid's school doodles are amazing, and I'm no different.

My mother is a professor of early childhood education. When I was two she would say she knew I was going to be an actor.

It is not weird for a dad to be doing the dishes, the laundry, and taking the kids to school, and read them stories for bed.

I am positive I was not a neglected child. I remember reading 'The Jungle Book' and 'The Sleeping Beauty.'

I saw as a teacher how, if you take that spark of learning that those children have, and you ignite it, you can take a child from any background to a lifetime of creativity and accomplishment.

To be honest my mentor was my mom and dad. I was very blessed and fortunate to have parents like I had.

At the end of the day, I'm a dad, and I try to give my kids everything I never had as a kid.

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.

If I feel my child is being deprived of anything that could affect her progress as a person, then I become extremely neurotic and douse the situation with as much help as humanly possible.