“Basically, I believe the world is a jungle, and if it's not a bit of a jungle in the home, a child cannot possibly be fit to enter the outside world.”
Others on Parenting
Barbara Kingsolver
2 quotes“But kids don't stay with you if you do it right. It's the one job where, the better you are, the more surely you won't b...”
Gordon B. Hinckley
2 quotes“work at our responsibility as parents as if everything in life counted on it, because in fact everything in life does co...”
Jodi Picoult
2 quotes“(24/7) once you sign on to be a mother, that's the only shift they offer.”
Jojo Moyes
2 quotes“Nobody ever feels they’re doing well with teenagers,' he said. 'I think that’s kind of the point of them.”
Khalil Gibran
2 quotes“You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.”
Marianne Williamson
2 quotes“There's no single effort more radical in it's potential for saving the world than a transformation of the way we raise o...”
Fred Rogers
1 quote“Parents are like shuttles on a loom. They join the threads of the past with threads of the future and leave their own br...”
Nicholas Sparks
1 quote“It's impossible to protect your kids against disappointment in life.”
P.D. James
1 quote“If from infancy you treat children as gods, they are liable in adulthood to act as devils.”
Bill Cosby
1 quote“My childhood should have taught me lessons for my own fatherhood, but it didn't because parenting can only be learned by...”
Jim Henson
1 quote“[Kids] don't remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are.”
Plato
1 quote“A boy is of all wild beasts the most difficult to manage.”