Parental Needs Quotes

This mother needs happy, reputable children, and that one needs unhappy ones: otherwise she cannot show her kindness as a mother.

The big thing with all parents is they just want to be left alone. I want no demands. That's the best gift for Father's Day, just leave them alone.

That's what children are for—that their parents may not be bored.

The father who raises a son to have a profession he once dreamed of, and the mother who uses her daughter as the adult companion her husband is not; the parents who urge their children into accomplishments as status symbols-all these and many more are ways of subordinating a child's authentic self to a parent s needs.

Parents need a full continuum of care and support from birth to kindergarten that is affordable and accessible - that means full day and full year. And let's not forget that even in elementary school, working parents need access to the same kind of quality, affordable after-school programs!

In a way, every parent is sort of dependent on the benevolence of the society around them to take care of their children.

When you are caring about your children perhaps you always have to remember at what point you can become over involved because of something you need rather than something the child needs.

Many experts are concerned that the parents who need safe havens the most are the least likely to use them.