Top 1175 Parental Guidance Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

There's a good amount of research out there that shows generous parental leave policies have a significant positive impact on employee retention and morale.

Children don’t require of their parents a past and they find something faintly unbelievable, almost embarrassing, in parental claims to a prior existence.

Shared parental leave is good for dads. Looking after their newborn on their own is a unique learning experience.

When we seek daily spiritual guidance, we are guided toward the next step forward for our art. Sometimes the step is very small. Sometimes the step is, "Wait. Not now." Sometimes the step is, "Work on something else for a while." When we are open to Divine Guidance, we will receive it. It will come to us as the hunch, the inkling, the itch. It will come to us as timely conversations with others. It will come to us in many ways--but it will come.

Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-imposed nonage. Nonage is the inability to use one's own understanding without another's guidance. This nonage is self-imposed if its cause lies not in lack of understanding but in indecision and lack of courage to use one's own mind without another's guidance. Dare to know!

Computers allow architects to remain parental instead of being marginalized by the contractors and managers.

The essential thing about mothers is that one needs to know that they are there, particularly at that age when, paradoxically, one is trying so hard to break away from parental influence.

Signs usually come in threes. The same book is recommended to you several times within the space of a day, for example. You overhear someone mention the same company three times in a week. Or, you get the same feeling again and again. Notice your feelings. Again, true divine guidance feels safe, even if it does feel intimidating. False guidance feels edgy, shaky - like you're sneaking under the wire. It doesn't feel right.

The children who are 'our future' will inherit a world created not just by parental devotion but by the sort of zealous, focused endeavors that can preclude good parenting.

As a parent, I can empathize with how difficult raising children can be. There are challenges, especially within the framework of divorce, when parental guilt can sometimes blur what should be the best decision.

I leave it to be settled, by whomsoever it may concern, whether the tendency of this work be altogether to recommend parental tyranny, or reward filial disobedience.

I have been driven to the edge by parental alienation for many years now. You have to go through this to understand.

In an age that is sometimes nowadays frightening or confusing, we feel reassured by the almost parental-like authority of experts who tell us so clearly what it is we can and cannot do.

The competitive nature of most mums and dads is astounding. The fear they instil in our promising but sensitive Johnny is utterly depressing. We need a parental cultural revolution.

Even the humblest mammal's strong sexual, parental, and social instincts give rise to 'do unto others as yourself' and 'love thy neighbor as thyself'.

The parental, and filial affections seem to be as ardent, their sensibility and attachment, as active and faithful, as those observed to be in human nature.

If you look at any superior athlete, you will find a strong parental influence. Parents introduce their children to a sport, and then they support them.

Maternity leave and parental leave is absolutely vital for strengthening families. It's an issue for men and women.

My father had retained an emotional affection for the ceremonial of his parental home, without allowing it to influence his intellectual freedom.

I know parental embarrassment usually stops somewhere at fifteen, but he just kept on giving me good reasons.

I didn't have a rigidly enforced religious parental pressure, but I did have a few years in my mid-teens of turning to religion, and it was very meaningful to me.

There is a natural rhythm to parent-child interactions, including the fact that some parental insights prove poignant and veridical decades after they were first shared with us.

My mother felt it was time that I had some parental control, so I went off to America and went to New York.

I resent the fact that a parental warning sticker has to be included on an album as cover art. To me that's censorship.

The worst problems for children stem from parental conflict, before, during, and after divorce or within marriage.

There is a strange kind of parental pride when 'Topdog' ends up on Broadway, or 'Elaine Stritch.'

Prayer is never just an emergency flare or desperate anxious gamble. God's attention is not based on our performance but parental love.

Hi, Mom. (Devyn) It’s the other parental unit. Not as pretty or as fierce as your mother, but loving nonetheless. (Syn)

I would have rebelled against parental authority, no matter what. When I was 15, I started painting my face and making my own clothes.

As for the American child's classic problem - too much mother, too little father - that would be cured by an equalization of parental responsibility.

People need a parental divine love which will attend to them above all else, no matter what happens

On the weekends I do the usual parental things, going to the boys' football tournaments or getting out for a hike along the Great Wall.

Once, the parental bed collapsed because all the children sat on it at once.

Some people are just self-motivated - my husband was. I also believe there are many children for whom parental involvement is key.

The government cannot overcome bad parenting. What our leaders can do is publicly condemn irresponsible parental behavior in vivid terms.

Love, whether sexual, parental, or fraternal, is essentially sacrificial, and prompts a man to give his life for his friends.

Most children turn out badly because they have the wrong parental image. This doesn't mean their parents are criminal. It means they are boring and cruel.

there is such a rebound from parental influence that it generally seems that the child makes use of the directions given by the parent only to avoid the prescribed path.

My theory is that one needs to be loved completely, unconditionally, and unfettered by parental disapproval, if one is to get happily through life which, after all, presents its own hurdles.

Education spending will be most effective if it relies on parental choice & private initiative -- the building blocks of success throughout our society.

We know the parental support, community support, makes a difference. It's not just the metrics of testing and putting pressure on the schools and on the teachers.

My father had retained an emotional affection for the ceremonial of his parental home, without allowing it to influence his intellectual freedom

Teaching our children to live a quiet, sane, and balanced life is one of the most important parental tasks of our day.

One of the blessings that comes with parental territory is that children tug you into experiences you're pretty sure you'd never otherwise contemplate.

We will not achieve gender equality in the workplace until we fix our system of parental leave.

The United States is the only advanced economy with no paid parental leave for either mothers or fathers.

Such a woman is called "Mother's FRIEND" always ready to give judicious Parental advice and living vicariously on the experience of others

I suppose I'd characterize myself as having a faith-based optimism. My faith is parental and Darwinian.

I've solved my phone addiction by deleting all the apps I was addicted to - email, browser - and getting my wife to add parental controls, to limit access even further.

President Hinckley is not only a living prophet but also a living seer. He sees things that others do not see. He has the gift of discernment; he is an optimist and a realist. . . . Through President Hinckley's divine guidance, the Church has received many far-reaching blessings, many that are not obvious. I strongly encourage each of you to more closely follow his counsel and guidance, for truly 'a seer hath the Lord raised up unto his people' (Moses 6:36).

I'm not looking for guidance.

Childhood obesity is best tackled at home through improved parental involvement, increased physical exercise, better diet and restraint from eating.

When Elton John sang a duet with the white rapper Eminem on a Grammy telecast, rap went mainstream. Massive parental headaches followed.

On the weekends, I do the usual parental things, going to the boys' football tournaments or getting out for a hike along the Great Wall.

For some small number of people, a parental loss appears to be, ultimately, a desirable difficulty - again, not a large number.

It is the institutions of society, not parental genes, that bestow the blessings of ownership of productive capital.

It is my pleasure that my children are free and happy, and unrestrained by parental tyranny. Love is the chain whereby to bind a child to its parents.

That a good fit between parental handling and child temperament is vital to help children adapt to the imperatives of their society is a crucial concept that can be applied to other cultures.

It is only when parental feelings are ineffective or too ambivalent or when the mother's emotions are temporarily engaged elsewhere that children feel lost.

The last step in parental love involves the release of the beloved; the willing cutting of the cord that would otherwise keep the child in a state of emotional dependence.