{"quotes":[{"text":"An exhausted parent can’t provide the best care, although occasionally, we have all had to do so.","author":"Charisse Montgomery","tags":["caregiver","disability","parent","parenting","special-needs"],"id":4477,"author_id":"Charisse+Montgomery"},{"text":"Chilled ice tea that tempered tepid summer days lathered thick with humidity. Frothy hot chocolate that cut winter’s chill. Bedtime prayers that sent our fears scrambling in panicked flight. Golden bouquets of dandelions aromatically rich with the gift of summers scent. Family meals that wove yet another binding thread in and through the tapestry of those seated around the table. These are but the slightest sampling of the innumerable gifts my mother handed to this child of hers. And without them, my life would be impoverished beyond words to describe.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["family","gifts","giving","mom","mother","mother-s-day","parent","parenting","raising-children","sacrifice"],"id":7137,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"What lingers from the parent's individual past, unresolved or incomplete, often becomes part of her or his irrational parenting.","author":"Virginia Satir","tags":["past","parent","her "],"id":8258,"author_id":"Virginia+Satir"},{"text":"When you become a parent, or a teacher, you turn into a manager of this whole system. You become the person controlling the bubble of innocence around a child, regulating it.","author":"Kazuo Ishiguro","tags":["child","parent","innocence "],"id":9017,"author_id":"Kazuo+Ishiguro"},{"text":"Blessed is the womb that born you.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["advice","childbirth","children","daily-inspirational","motivational","parent","pregnancy","womb"],"id":11011,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"},{"text":"Mothers cowered over their small children, defenceless as their backs blossomed with red lines or swords were sunk into their flesh to reach the young ones they hid.","author":"Osman Welela","tags":["mother","parent","protection","sacrifice","war"],"id":14101,"author_id":"Osman+Welela"},{"text":"Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children’s strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms even if it doesn’t comprehend. Don’t ask for advice from them and don’t expect any understanding; but believe in a love that is being stored up for you like an inheritance, and have faith that in this love there is strength and blessing so large that you can travel as far as you wish without having to step outside it.","author":"Rainer Maria Rilke","tags":["child","children","love","parent","parents","unconditional-love"],"id":15761,"author_id":"Rainer+Maria+Rilke"},{"text":"What you can do, has nothing to do with your parents' last name! What you can do has nothing to do with the colour of your skin! What you can do is fully determined by God! It’s simple!","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["christ","color","color-of-your-skin","colour","colour-of-your-skin","do-it","father-s-name","first-name","food-for-thought","god","god-loves-you","israelmore-ayivor","jehovah","last-name","mother-s-name","name","parent","parents","skin","skin-color","skin-colour","surname","you-can-do-it","your-name"],"id":15901,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"From stoplights to skyscrapers, turn anywhere in civilization and you will see imagination at work. It's in our inventions, advances and remedies and how a single parent masterminds each day. Imagination is boundless, surrounds us and resides in us all.","author":"Geoffrey S. Fletcher","tags":["work","day","parent "],"id":16942,"author_id":"Geoffrey+S.+Fletcher"},{"text":"The child is brought up to know its social duties by means of a system of love-rewards and punishments, and in this way it is taught that its security in life depends on its parents (and, subsequently, other people) loving it and being able to believe in its love for them.","author":"Sigmund Freud","tags":["child","dependent","love","parent","punishment","reward","security","social-duties","system","trust"],"id":17804,"author_id":"Sigmund+Freud"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":237,"pages":24,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}