Top 1200 Foster Parent Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

In one way or another, every parent is curious what their children... what are they doing when we don't see?... What double lives are they leading? Is there something else?

All I can think of is the emaciated bodies of children on our kitchen table as my mother prescribes what the parent's can't give. More food.

I have a partner who can be there alongside me, who's taking up a huge part of that joint responsibility, because he's a parent, too - he's not a babysitter.

If a parent knows that their kid is suddenly becoming infatuated with ISIS, they face a very difficult choice, which is, you know, do I - what do I do?

My mum Margaret was a single parent, but though life was a bit of a struggle she gave me every encouragement.

If one is devoid of hope and thanksgiving, he cannot for long remain sinless, for he will, in despair, have slackened his resolve. Feelings of futility foster vulnerability. Self-pity is such a busy stagehand, rearranging the scenery to help sin make its entrance. No wonder the prophets say that without faith in the Lord, there is no hope.

People ask me how I've raised three children as a single parent but honestly, parenting has been a breeze.

I have a fall-back fund for the quiet months. I am a single working parent and it gets lonely when things are insecure.

Being a parent is not an easy job, which is why we try to create cartoons parents know are safe for their kids.

Every parent is at some time the father of the unreturned prodigal, with nothing to do but keep his house open to hope.

Sometimes as a parent, you have to give your child that doesn't do his or her chores some tough love and withhold the allowance.

Like any doting parent, I believe the most important work we do is the way we bring up our children.

I think there is a time in every person's life where they have to let their parents go and figure out what being a parent means for themselves.

When you see a parent pass, and you literally are there, and you're sitting at that deathbed, man, and you have to tell them to go, it defines life for what it really is.

I love having different cultures around, but when the parent culture kind of dissipates, you're left thinking, 'Well, what's going on?'

All great directors - however, they do it - make you want to be good. I hope I do it. It's like being a parent, a psychiatrist, a disciplinarian and a friend.

Within a single school, teachers often encounter differences in poverty levels, parent involvement, and student readiness.

Earthquakes would be great if they could hit specific areas, like the parent lounge at a children's beauty pageant.

Ultimately, very few people parent their kids in ways that strike anybody else as reasoned, appropriate or sane.

That's the potential power of a single voice - a neighbor's, a teacher's, a parent's, a friend's. It can change you, make you feel as if you have a place in the world.

Education has for its object to develop the child into a man of well proportioned and harmonious nature-this is alike the aim of parent and teacher.

Years later, nothing makes me more grateful as a parent than my daughters' encounters with classroom wizards.

I ...understand how a parent might hit a child- it's because you can look into their eyes and see a reflection of yourself that you wish you hadn't.

We need a new Latin American policy that is bold - different. We need to focus on building civil society, focus on the lack of infrastructure. We need look at ways to foster economic opportunity. There needs to be a more comprehensive economic vision in the region.

I think that the hardest thing about working with young people in foster care who've been through this kind of neglect and abuse is really to convince them that they are worthy of being loved. And I think because often they don't feel worthy of it, that's why they push people away.

At home, he's a 100-percent softie; that's who he is. I just blew his cover. When Howard has a really stressful day at work or he feels overwhelmed, it's funny, I point to the foster room. After 30 seconds of being there with these baby kittens or these special needs cats, it just changes your whole mood.

It is the duty of every parent, citizens, yours and mine to strengthen among boys the sense of respect towards women.

We won't win until the average parent believes drug reform protects kids better than the war on drugs.

I'm a single parent, a working mother, an executive, and an author. My greatest accomplishment will be to raise three wonderful children.

Worrying seems like a fairly natural state of being for a parent, so feel free to worry as much as you want.

If every parent knew that the best way to prevent lice from spreading is by looking for them, cases decrease dramatically.

Though I'm a very broad-minded girl, I don't think any parent would appreciate their daughter stripping on-screen.

The right to life does not depend, and must not be declared to be contingent, on the pleasure of anyone else, not even a parent or sovereign.

Imagine being the parent of a six or seven-year-old who needs a transplant and there is no match. I understand now what that means.

Being older, I can't imagine a parent not wanting to be in their kid's life. I will just never understand it. To me, it's priceless.

I realize that I was being the kind of parent that I thought my daughter needed. I was a good role model for her on what a working mom can do.

What the Chinese parent is conveying to the child is not that 'you've got to get A's or else I won't like you.' On the contrary, it's, 'I believe in you so much, I know that you can be excellent.'

Before I became a parent, I was a bestselling author and speaker pounding up the escalators of a different airport every week.

Is the parent better than the child into whom he has cast his ripened being? Whence, then, this worship of the past?

I think for every parent, they know their kids better than anybody else, and they have to just trust their own instincts.

I was almost surprised to realize that I had actually done something right as a parent by insisting on regular family dinners.

What lingers from the parent's individual past, unresolved or incomplete, often becomes part of her or his irrational parenting.

As a parent, I know I speak for millions when I say that every child deserves to grow up in a stable, loving home.

To foster creativity, I think a little pressure can be good, but stress isn't good. Knowing that you have a defined window of time and you're going to dedicate your attention to it is a positive - but you can't think of it as needing a track that's going to change your life.

The organization reflects the behavior and characteristics of the CEO, and that establishes the culture. Foster an environment of open communication, and the organization inherits a culture of open communication.

Simplicity is always a virtue. One kid on a riverbank working out a Stephen Foster tune on his new harmonica heard from the correct esthetic distance projects more magic and power than the entire Vienna Philharmonic and Chorus laboring (once again) through the Mozart Requiem or Bach's B Minor Mass.

All I want, and I think all any parent with a semblance of a moral psychology wants, is for my kid to have his own experience, uninhibited.

We didn't have a whole lot of cash growing up. My mom was a single parent for a while before my stepdad came into the picture.

As a member of Congress, and a parent, I understand the importance of ensuring that families are able to provide a meaningful and proper burial for their loved ones.

Anyone who has a parent can relate to this idea of not quite understanding who your parents are or making up stories about them.

Parenthood is a great equalizer. It doesn't matter how famous you are - once you become a parent, you are just like everyone else.

Witnessing the bond between a parent and their little ones firsthand really brought home to me how much I was missing.

I didn't even realize this at first, but there's almost no central character in any of my 24 books who doesn't have a dead mother or a lost parent.

My own parents were very un-neurotic, so I never thought that I had to change enormously in order to become a parent.

Being a lazy parent and letting your kid watch stuff that's not appropriate for their age is one of the bigger mistakes you can make.

Both in the lower and the middle classes the wiseacres urge young men 'to think it over' before taking the decisive step. Thus they foster the delusion that the choice of a wife or husband may be governed by a certain number of accurately weighable pros and cons. This is a crude delusion on the part of common sense.

You know, I think becoming a parent has really changed the way that I feel impacted by what's going on in the world around me.

You never stop being a parent, Adam, no matter how old or wise your child becomes you'll see.

Raising parent awareness on how to support their students to be safe, responsible and discerning users of technology continues to be a challenge.

I have a very steadfast tendency to parent myself, to monitor my development into the person I want to be. I've tried to keep the corruption minimal.