Quotes about "Family & Parenting"

I've been lucky enough to live through all the things that are supposed to give meaning to our lives, like parenting, grandparenting, art, celebrity. All these things you expect meaning to come from, and sometimes it comes when you're not expecting it. ”

Never Have Your Dog Stuffed' is really advice to myself, a reminder to myself not to avoid change or uncertainty, but to go with it, to surf into change. ”

It's a funny feeling to work with people who you consider your colleagues and to realize that they actually are young enough to be your children. ”

In France, Christmas is a family holiday. You stay home. New Year's Eve is when you go out. ”

I do very well three things: my job, stupidities and children. ”

Nurturing an inclusive culture begins in the family. Home is the first place to foster openness and a culture of inclusion. ”

I like the values associated with a medical family - common sense, being practical but also thoughtful. ”

Where is instruction in relationships, in the management of career, in the raising of children, in the pursuit of friendship, in the wise approach to anxiety and death? All this sort of stuff I craved to learn about when I was a student and down to this day. ”

Parents become very good at not hearing the explicit words and listening instead to what the child means but doesn't yet know how to say: 'I'm lonely, in pain, frightened' - distress which then unfairly comes out as an attack on the safest, kindest, most reliable thing in the child's world: the parent. ”

I tell my children what I think myself: That religion is not necessarily convincing, but it is still interesting and not to be laughed at or denigrated. ”