Don't assume your child is weak. If you, the parent, assume that they can't take anymore, what kind of signal are you sending them?
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It's very hard when your child doesn't want to talk to you and you want to talk to them, and you want to touch them, you want to hold them.
Due to my sometimes erratic behavior, my children tried very hard to avoid me and not do anything to set me off.
No use to shout at them to pay attention. If the situations, the materials, the problems before the child do not interest him, his attention will slip off to what does interest him, and no amount of exhortation of threats will bring it back.
Being a parent is weird. It changes people in subtle and unsubtle ways. In my case, it awoke a kind of manic sentinel in my brain. Anything in the house that might be a threat to the kids or to my wife gets terminated - food, sharp edges, poor wiring.
It's hard to say no to your kid. It's hard for them to stomp off and not be happy with you for an hour.
Parents should talk to their children, even when they are babies and can't talk back.
If you think a child is going to be your accessory... it's not like a micro pig. It's not about putting them in front of the television. You need to read to them at night.
It's quite difficult for a parent to know that their daughter is in great danger.
When my son first started to take the subway, my husband and I used to follow him to make sure he was all right, and then we had to stop following him and let him do it by himself.
Once your kids get older and get out of the house, it's not like it stops. They're on the phone with me every day; I'm intimately involved in their problems.
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