Katherine Dunn Quotes

If the agency of the mother in forming the character of her children is, in truth, so considerable, as I think it - if she does so much toward making her son what she would wish him to be - how essential is it that she should be fitted for the beneficial performance of these important duties.

There's nothing more damning in life than a child calmly and coldly saying, 'Are you aware that you're teaching me bad habits?'

Wizard's Second Rule The greatest harm can result from the best intentions.

For only as we ourselves, as adults, actually move and have our being in the state of love, can we be appropriate models and guides for our children. What we are teaches the child far more than what we say, so we must be what we want our children to become.

The parents have not only to train their children: it is of at least equal importance that they should train themselves.

My kids get everything they want and are raised well.

People don't necessarily do evil deeds because they want to; people happen to do something with horrible consequences even if they meant to be kind.

Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequence than to have a really affectionate mother.

An unhappy mother does not raise a happy child.

I love my son. He's a great soul. He's a sweet person, but events that have happened to him in his life, some of his own making - as a parent, you really can't take full responsibility for the destruction that can happen to a child.

As parents, we must be mindful that our actions are matching our words.

The best way to raise positive children in a negative world is to have positive parents who love them unconditionally and serve as excellent role models.

When you think you're a really good person, you're actually capable of doing some real harm to people, either knowingly or unknowingly. It's the big little lie that we all live in.

People forget how the same children brought up with affection, effort, and love are the ones who later kick their parents.

I think our jobs as parents is to raise our children with empathy - to figure out who this little character is, almost from birth, and then guide them to fulfill their best potential.

Every child needs both parents.

My parents never sat down to teach me anything; they lived exemplary life to set a lesson for me.

Computers shouldn't be parents, but they are. Please, spend time with your kids. If you don't want to, then I don't want to. It might hurt you to discipline your offspring, but it saves the child from being disciplined later by someone less forgiving. Like a criminal court judge. If you don't spank your child, someone else will.

I appreciate my parents for everything they instilled in me and my brothers.

As a child, you are influenced by your parents' actions.

There's no question that aggression can be learned through modeling. When a child sees her parent behave in a particular way, she may be tempted or even rewarded for being that way.

Kids grasp what you teach them, from crawling to walking, for everything they look up to their parents.

When a child is small, it is his mother who is mainly responsible for the way he is brought up. So it was with me. I belonged in those days to my mother rather than my father.

My mum did encourage me, perhaps most of all by never discouraging me from anything I wanted to do. If you tell kids not to, they're going to do it in the end anyway. I'd finished all that staying-out-all-night-drinking bit when everybody else came to it. Probably why I don't like alcohol today. I had it all by the age of 10.

As parents, we should remember that our lives may be the book from the family library which the children most treasure. Are our examples worthy of emulation? Do we live in such a way that a son or a daughter may say, ‘I want to follow my dad,’ or ‘I want to be like my mother’? Unlike the book on the library shelf, the covers of which shield its contents, our lives cannot be closed. Parents, we truly are an open book in the library of learning of our homes.