Wordgrove Post & Review

Quoted in The Grove:
My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.
~Jim Valvano

A wise woman once said to me that there are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these she said is roots, the other, wings.
~William Hodding Carter

If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others.
~Haim Ginott

EndQuote:
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
~Theodore Hesburgh

 

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Exercise Prompt for 05/17:  wine

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Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.
~Elizabeth Stone

When you have brought up kids, there are memories you store directly in your tear ducts.
~Robert Brault

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Posted from the Grove

The hardest part of raising a child is teaching them to ride bicycles. A shaky child on a bicycle for the first time needs both support and freedom. The realization that this is what the child will always need can hit hard.
~Sloan Wilson

Instant availability without continuous presence is probably the best role a mother can play.
~Lotte Bailyn

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~Kevin Kelly:  Motes of Wisdom a Parent Might Impart
https://kk.org/thetechnium/68-bits-of-unsolicited-advice/?utm_source

Thx: Rusty’s Electric Dreams

 

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Do not raise your children the way your parents raised you; they were born for a different time.
~Ali ibn Abi Talib

When you teach your son, you teach your son’s son.
~The Talmud

Before I got married, I had six theories about bringing up children. Now I have six children — and no theories.
~Author unknown

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~Mental Floss:  24 Puzzling Parenting Tips From the 1800s   (14:12)
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/624150/parenting-tips-from-the-1800s-the-list-show

 

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The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new.
~Rajneesh

The commonest fallacy among women is that simply having children makes them a mother – which is as absurd as believing that having a piano makes one a musician.
~Sydney J Harris

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VIDEO:

~Dina Velikovskaya:  About A Mother – Pro Mamu   (7:19)
https://vimeo.com/channels/staffpicks/416460138

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~Trey Kennedy:  Day 1 vs. Day 50 in Quarantine  – First of several in a series of 3 minute comedy sketches
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCp2gZ-BMIw

Thx:  The Daily PNut

 

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The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.
~Peter De Vries

My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.
~Quentin Crisp

It is a story without a villain, the parent who tried to be the north star to a child desperate for the sun.
~Robert Brault

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MUSIC:

~Billy Joel:  Seen The Lights Go Out On Broadway   (4:34)

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~Riders in The Sky:  Back in The Saddle Again   (2:24)

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~Canadian Cancer Society Choir:  Here Comes the Sun   (3:16)   In grey and yellow

 

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Smack your child every day. If you don’t know why — he does.
~Joey Adams

When a child hits a child, we call it aggression. When a child hits an adult, we call it hostility. When an adult hits an adult, we call it assault. When an adult hits a child, we call it discipline.
~Haim Ginott

A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
~Frederick Douglass

Don’t let yourself become so concerned with raising a good kid that you forget you already have one.
~Glennon Melton

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Having children is like living in a frat house – nobody sleeps, everything’s broken, and there’s a lot of throwing up.
~Ray Romano

A two-year-old is kind of like having a blender, but you don’t have a top for it.
~Jerry Seinfeld

Always end the name of your child with a vowel, so that when you yell the name will carry.
~Bill Cosby

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My mom used to say it doesn’t matter how many kids you have… because one kid’ll take up 100% of your time so more kids can’t possibly take up more than 100% of your time.
~Karen Brown

In bringing up children, spend on them half as much money and twice as much time.
~Author Unknown

You have a lifetime to work, but children are only young once.
~Polish Proverb

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@Writers Platform

As parents, we guide by our unspoken example. It is only when we’re talking to them that our kids aren’t listening.
~Robert Brault

Don’t worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.
~Robert Fulghum

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Exercise Prompt:  parent

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~BarTalk:
School

Take a class in shrouded family secrets
Attend the annual Christmas field trips
Note the brawls, the schmaltz and squalor
The love beneath that hides transparently

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Karma sKids

She, a parent, Leigh by name
He, a parent, Lee the same
She, a paragon worth acclaim
He’s just gone, earns disdain
Hers the pride and love attained
His crime, the grime and moral stain
With no way, no chance to try again
Rides alone on the outbound train

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5-7-5-7-7

inventions on hold
brilliant ideas wait
warrant a parent
time grows late, the world debates
the need for art to create

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5-7-5 x 2

tears drop, stain the breast
soft eyes of a parent’s gaze
mother’s joy at birth
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tear drops cloud the eyes
parents die a thousand deaths
burn an empty crib

 

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When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.
~Sophia Loren

Whenever I held my newborn baby in my arms, I used to think that what I said and did to him could have an influence not only on him but on all whom he met, not only for a day or a month or a year, but for all eternity — a very challenging and exciting thought for a mother.
~Rose Kennedy

The most important thing she’d learned over the years was that there was no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one.
~Jill Churchill

If your children spend most of their time in other people’s houses, you’re lucky; if they all congregate at your house, you’re blessed.
~Mignon McLaughlin

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Curated by: Wordgrove

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