Top 1200 Foster Parent Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

I grew up in a family with three brothers and sisters who joined my family through the foster care program, and I also have a sister who joined my family through a faith-based organization.

I think it is only when you marry and become a parent that you begin to understand that life isn't always straightforward.

Few things make the life of a parent more rewarding and sweet as successful children.

In some ways, I'm slightly like a single parent, so I need to be able to provide for my family.

I think the biggest problem is parents are so concerned with being friends with their kids. You're not their friend. You're their parent.

Start a program for gifted children, and every parent demands that his child be enrolled.

All over the world, as governments retreat from their traditional duty to foster the common good and reconceive of themselves as mere managers of national economies, universities have been coming under pressure to turn themselves into training schools equipping young people with the skills required by a modern economy.

What it's like to be a parent: It's one of the hardest things you'll ever do but in exchange it teaches you the meaning of unconditional love.

I believe our legacy will be defined by the accomplishments and fearless nature by which our daughters and sons take on the global challenges we face. I also wonder if perhaps the most lasting expression of one's humility lies in our ability to foster and mentor our children.

My foster mother always laughed and said it was his reputation for knowing everything that allowed for him to appear infallible: all he had to do was walk through the room and see who looked guiltiest when they saw him. Maybe she was right, but I tried looking innocent the next time, and it didn't work.

I feel that women - without wishing to foster any strict separatist notions, homo or hetero - indeed have a need for their own publications and organizations. Our problems, our experiences as women are profoundly unique as compared to the other half of the human race.

I'm always working, and I'm a single parent, so I don't think I have time for stuff most normal people do.

There are essential elements for our public schools to fully develop the potential of both students and educators. They should be centers of community, where students, families and educators work together to support student success. They should foster collaboration.

I was the third parent, growing up, and it did make me a very overly responsible adult.

I had to learn all the pieces backward and forward [to play it in "Florence Foster Jenkins"]. We practiced on weekends. It was very much like being in school, except it was with Meryl Streep. Like, I would go to her apartment and we would practice Mozart's "Queen of the Night."

You take responsibility for your children but you're not always the taxi driver and that doesn't make you a bad parent.

Sometimes in your career, you are at the right place at the right moment. But you have to be aware that eventually you may no longer be the right person for that position. So build your succession and foster for it while you are still at the peak of you career.

If kissing is man's greatest invention, then fermentation and patriarchy compete with the domestication of animals for the distinction of being man's worst folly, and no doubt the three combined long ago, the one growing out of the others, to foster civilization and lead Western humanity to its present state of decline.

I think if I tried to be the stern parent, we would have slipped into Cinderella mode - with me as the evil stepmother!

As a parent, I know that the State has no greater responsibility than protecting the safety of our children.

I thought if anyone need a leg up, it was our foster children. So, I started getting involved in education reform, and that was back in 1998. And as a result of all the reform work that I had done, people urged me to run for the Minnesota state Senate. I did, I was there for six years.

You have to decide what it is that shapes and defines you. I'm a big sister and a co-parent with my mom before anything. That's my root of all. It's my foundation.

Everything you worry about as a parent can be improved by sitting down regularly with your kids.

Economy is the parent of integrity, of liberty, and of ease, and the beauteous sister of temperance, of cheerfulness and health.

Wealth and poverty; one is the parent of luxury and indolence, and the other of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.

No one has ever found an organism that is known not to have parents, or a parent. This is the strongest evidence on behalf of evolution.

Our daughter was not damaged or hurt in any way. She was simply relinquished to foster care by two people who were not ready to be parents. I admire them for giving her the chance for a better life. And I am grateful they gave my husband and me the opportunity to be parents.

To be a visionary parent, we need to keep working on ourselves, becoming forever new and improved.

Fear of corporal punishment obscures children's awareness of the compassion underlying the parent's demands.

As a parent, do the right thing and you don't get in trouble. If you lead a charmed life, you better act like it.

No parent or coach can be true to any child and say he's ready for the N.F.L. out of high school.

For some people, becoming a parent does change them, but it never changed me.

Something we learned from foster kids after sitting down with them to hear their stories is that so many of them are invested in social justice, and they're all invested in making the system better for the kids behind them.

But the watchful care of the parent is endless. The youth is never free from the danger of grating interference.

When you're a single parent, you're often lonely, yet seldom alone. There is no backup ... It is mothering without a net.

I don't have children of my own so I can't say I know the plight of being a parent, but I can kinda understand some of the complexities of it.

In addition to that, having the items I needed to foster the breastfeeding process and give me an opportunity to bond with my baby in this way was something that I felt was so important in my life and my experience as a first-time mom. I love that I am able to play a role in giving that joy and support to the moms we will be helping.

To be a mother is a beautiful thing, but to be able to assume the role for a child in need is nothing less than amazing. I believe that any woman who takes on the role of a mother, whether it be naturally or through foster care or adoption, should be held in the highest regard.

Learning to drive is a scary thing for a parent. I had to basically lie to get the keys when I was a kid.

We have lost sight of nature's role in the whole process of maturation and growing up. Parents and nature are a team. And nature can't go on without the parental role of being able to foster individuality and viability unless the attachment needs are fully met.

I was raised in Washington, DC in a household where one parent was a Republican and the other was a Democrat, so I got both sides.

Everything a baby does strikes a parent as the most magical thing he/she has ever seen.

That experience is the parent of wisdom is an adage the truth of which is recognized by the wisest as well as the simplest of mankind.

I agree that a love of reading is a great gift for a parent to pass on to his or her child.

[I'm a conscious parent when I] believe that my child matters more than their relationship to academics or success.

You can imagine what a dorm room environment is to a CF parent. It's like, oh my God. It's crazy.

I think the key to being a good parent is to individualize your love for each child.

I grew up in an era of pretty severe poverty. My parents weathered the Great Depression, and money was always a very big concern. I was weaned on a shortage mentality and placed in foster homes largely because there simply wasn't enough money to take care of the most basic of needs.

I think any parent can imagine how difficult it would be to watch your child suffer.

Creating a child takes no love or skill; being a parent requires lots of both.

Society is a kind of parent to its members. If it, and they, are to thrive, its values must be clear, coherent and generally acceptable.

Leadership that exploits and sacrifices young people on the altar of its goals is nothing more than raw, demonic power. Genuine leadership is found in ceaseless efforts to foster young people, to pave the way forward for them.

We think we're saving time with microwaves, cell phones, beepers, computers and voice mail, but often these things help us create the illusion of getting somewhere - and they foster a chain of constant activity. We're really just squeezing extra activity into every minute that we gain.

The parent-child connection is the most powerful mental health intervention known to mankind.

I'm not a tech-savvy parent. I communicate with my children via the old-media format called yelling.

Our children are better served by speaking not of visitation versus custody, but of parent time.

I think the best thing a parent can do, when raising a child, is simply get out of their way.

Children can be happy when their parents are miserable. But a parent is never happier than her unhappiest child.

Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.

I'd like to know what law is it that says that a woman is a better parent, simply by virtue of her sex.