Healthy Family Dynamics Quotes

Where love exists with self-respect and joy, where a fine environment is provided for the child, where the parents live under conditions that neither stunt the imagination nor let it run to uncontrolled fantasy, there you have the family that modern men are seeking to create.

Every parent can imagine the joys of child abuse.

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.

I've learned that a family can have little glitches without being labeled dysfunctional.

Fathers, provoke not your children to wrath.

Good homes are still the best source of good humans.

The secret of a happy home is that members of the family learn to give and receive love.

Let the child see Mama and Daddy both at least once a day. Never quarrel or argue in front of a baby or a child-it destroys security.

I don't think people should try to force their will on their family.

The secret to raising children is to love them... And teach them to operate in a way you can tolerate them the best.

The perfect family doesn't exist, nor is there a perfect husband or a perfect wife, and let's not talk about the perfect mother-in-law! It's just us sinners. A healthy family life requires frequent use of three phrases: "May I? Thank you, and I'm sorry" and "never, never, never end the day without making peace."

When a family is free of abuse and oppression, it can be the place where we share our deepest secrets and stand the most exposed, a place where we learn to feel distinct without being better, - and sacrifice for others without losing ourselves.

Better a loving single-parent family than a 'conventional' family where the parents hate each other and the father is a demagogue.

I think there are families that are very kind and supportive of people's ability to change. People who come from such families may go through life without dipping into the dark night.

Good parenting give headaches but bad parenting gives heartaches.

Studies show that the more often families eat together, the less likely kids are to smoke, drink, do drugs, get depressed, develop eating disorders and consider suicide, and the more likely they are to do well in school, delay having sex, eat their vegetables, learn big words and know which fork to use.

I'm not sure if I know any 'functional' families, if functional means a family without difficult times and members who don't have a full range of problems.

Most important to me is my home life and the well-being of my children.

I have the most incredible parents and they didn't put pressure on me. I grew up in a house and no matter what they thought of things, it was always about my choice.

My parents were like June and Ward Cleaver; there was nothing dysfunctional about them.

I was lucky that my mother had a very well-adjusted perspective of the world, and never pressured me to do anything I didn't want to do.

I'm very fortunate to have parents who have kept me grounded, so I hopefully won't end up in a bad situation when I grow up.