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It is crucial that young people are taught sustainable child production and rearing. -- Alice Walker
Spanking and verbal criticism have become, to many parents, more important tools of child rearing than approval. -- Phil Donahue
I get most of my inspiration from older records and older production styles, and that ends up rearing its head in the records that I make. -- M. Ward
No longer is the female destined solely for the home and the rearing of the family and only the male for the marketplace and the world of ideas. -- William J. Brennan, Jr.
Parents are often so busy with the physical rearing of children that they miss the glory of parenthood, just as the grandeur of the trees is lost when raking leaves. -- Marcelene Cox
The proper care and rearing of a child is integral to their development. It breaks my heart to know that some children's futures are being destroyed within their own homes. -- Lawrence Jackson
Why in almost all societies have married women specialized in bearing and rearing children and in certain agricultural activities, whereas married men have done most of the fighting and market work? -- Gary Becker
My father was trained as a saddler, but in fact as a young man worked in his father's business of rearing and selling cattle, so he grew up in the countryside. -- Aaron Klug
Just as the unique characteristics of both males and females contribute to the completeness of a marriage relationship, so those same characteristics are vital to the rearing, nurturing, and teaching of children. -- David A. Bednar
One of the most difficult parental challenges is to appropriately discipline children. Child rearing is so individualistic. Every child is different and unique. What works with one may not work with another. -- James E. Faust
In the matter of the maintenance and rearing of children the Anarchists would neither institute the communistic nursery which the State Socialists favor nor keep the communistic school system which now prevails. -- Benjamin Tucker
The Lord clearly defined the roles of providing for and rearing a righteous posterity. In the beginning, Adam, not Eve, was instructed to earn the bread by the sweat of his brow. -- Ezra Taft Benson
Their humble dwellings were of their own rearing; it was they themselves who had broken in their little fields; from time immemorial, far beyond the reach of history, had they possessed their mountain holdings. -- Hugh Miller
Dare to Discipline' was published in 1970 in the midst of the Vietnam War and a culture of rebellion. The book was written in that context, but the principles of child rearing have not changed. -- James Dobson
A woman whose life is involved in the righteous rearing of her children has a better chance of keeping up her spirits than the woman whose total concern is centered in her own personal problems. -- Ezra Taft Benson
I am always suspicious of those who impose 'rules' on child rearing. Every child is different in terms of temperament and learning, and every parent responds to a particular child, not some generalized infant or youngster. -- Siri Hustvedt
Mothers, stay close to your daughters. Earn and deserve their love and respect. Be united with their father in the rearing of your children. Do nothing in your life to cause your daughters to stumble because of your example. -- Ezra Taft Benson
Even now, after whatever gains feminism has made in involving fathers in the rearing of their children, I still think virtually all of us spend the most formative years of our lives very much in the presence of women. -- Reynolds Price
The bearing, rearing, feeding and educating of children; the running of a house with its thousand details; human relationships with their myriad pulls - women's normal occupations in general run counter to creative life, or contemplative life, or saintly life. -- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Yeah, I wanted to know where they got it from, what it was all about, you know, and it seemed to strike something in me that was you know rearing it's head and I still don't know what that is. -- Eric Clapton
I looked on child rearing not only as a work of love and duty but as a profession that was fully as interesting and challenging as any honorable profession in the world and one that demanded the best that I could bring to it. -- Rose Kennedy
I had the experience last year of directing my first feature while I had a 1-year-old son and while I was also pregnant, so I am now well aware of the difficulties women who are rearing children face when they're also trying to make headway in mainstream of film. -- Diablo Cody
The sensation of writing a book is the sensation of spinning, blinded by love and daring. It is the sensation of a stunt pilot's turning barrel rolls, or an inchworm's blind rearing from a stem in search of a route. At its worst, it feels like alligator wrestling, at the level of the sentence. -- Annie Dillard
I'd gotten myself into a kind of journalism that wasn't really compatible with rearing an infant. I'd been a foreign correspondent for a long time and had this subspecialty in covering catastrophes. It had spoiled me a little because you have a tremendous amount of autonomy, and I couldn't really see being an editor in an office. -- Geraldine Brooks
Child-rearing can be a tedious and thankless undertaking. -- Jessica Valenti
Child-rearing is my main interest now. I'm a hands-on father. -- Sean Penn
We need to start talking about child-rearing in the workplace. -- Sheryl Sandberg
He had no imagination either-fatal for one engaged in child-rearing -- Mary Ann Shaffer
The first principle of child-rearing is to choose a good mother. -- Christian Morgenstern
The job of rearing a child consists of making conscious activities unconscious. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
A perfect parent is a person with excellent child-rearing theories and no actual children. -- Dave Barry
Computer system analysis is like child-rearing; you can do grievous damage, but you cannot ensure success. -- Tom DeMarco
They were bound for college, husbands, child-rearing, unhappiness only dimly perceived- bound, in other words, for life. -- Jeffrey Eugenides
If writing and publishing a book is like giving birth to a child, then book marketing is like rearing it. -- Heather Hart
One learns more of Christ in being married and rearing children than in several lifetimes spent in study in a monastery. -- Martin Luther
This is one thing they forget to mention in most child-rearing books, that at times you will just lose your mind. Period. -- Anne Lamott
The rearing of children is considered too important to be left to the individual and should be the responsibility of the state. -- Jostein Gaarder
Whatever we refuse to recognize about ourselves has a way of rearing its head and making itself known when we least expect it. -- Debbie Ford
The reward of child rearing is spending the rest of your life proudly knowing this person you helped guide. Let him be himself. -- Mike Sager
Let us not fool ourselves - without Christianity, without Christian education, without the principles of Christ inculcated into young life, we are simply rearing pagans. -- Peter Marshall
No one who traces the history of motherhood, of the home, of child-rearing practices will ever assume the eternal permanence of our own way of institutionalizing them. -- Jessie Bernard
There's never been a civilization, ever in history, that has embraced homosexuality and turned away from traditional fidelity and traditional marriage, traditional child rearing, and has survived. -- Pat Roberts
No longer is the female destined solely for the home and the rearing of the family and only the male for the marketplace and the world of ideas. -- William J. Brennan, Jr.
You need more than your own wisdom in rearing [your children]. You need the help of the Lord. Pray for that help and follow the inspiration which you receive. -- Gordon B. Hinckley
Women who work at home rearing children and attending to various household tasks are expected to provide something that is absolutely essential yet costs nothing, like the air we breathe. -- Mary Jo Weaver
The greatest job that any mother will ever do will be in nurturing, teaching, lifting, encouraging and rearing her children in righteousness and truth. None other can adequately take her place. -- Gordon B. Hinckley
Most exotic animals are not particularly interested in people, which makes it hard to provoke them. Human-rearing gets them used to and sometimes imprinted on humans, which makes them potentially dangerous. -- Frans de Waal
My keepers, why keepers, I'm in no danger of stirring an inch, ah I see, it's to make me think I'm a prisoner, frantic with corporeality, rearing to get out and away. -- Samuel Beckett
In my opinion, the teaching, rearing, and training of children requires more intelligence, intuitive understanding, humility, strength, wisdom, spirituality, perseverance, and hard work than any other challenge we might have in life. -- James E. Faust
The temple of truth is built indeed of stones of crystal, but, inasmuch as men have been concerned in rearing it, it has been consolidated by a cement composed of baser materials. -- Charles Caleb Colton
The Complex of color...every colored man feels it sooner or later. It gets in the way of his dreams, of his education, of his marriage, of the rearing of his children. -- Jessie Redmon Fauset
We must look towards societies that set a high value on nonaggression and noncompetitive ness, and therefore handle conflicts by nonviolent means. We can see how child rearing patterns produce nurturing adult behaviors. -- Elise M. Boulding
Only with maturity did I come to appreciate my own Chinese roots: not just the food and the ancient history, but also the philosophy of child-rearing and the respect for education and knowledge. -- Tess Gerritsen
'Dare to Discipline' was published in 1970 in the midst of the Vietnam War and a culture of rebellion. The book was written in that context, but the principles of child rearing have not changed. -- James Dobson
At a time when the American family is threatened as never before, redefining it away from the union of one man and one woman only promises to weaken it as a child-rearing, values-conveying institution. -- Marco Rubio
The degree to which the child-rearing professionals continue to be out of touch with reality is astounding. For example, a widely read manual on breast-feeding, devotes fewer than two pages to the working mother. -- Sylvia Ann Hewlett
In Los Angeles, parenting is a competitive sport. From Beverly Hills baby boutiques to kids' yoga classes, L.A. fuses high style, industrial-strength materialism, and parental outsourcing into our own unique version of child-rearing. -- Shawn Amos
I'm very lucky that my husband is a true partner in child-rearing. If I get home late, he gets home early or vice-versa. I travel more, and he's able to spell me when I'm gone. -- Bonnie Hammer
The fact is that child rearing is a long, hard job, the rewards are not always immediately obvious, the work is undervalued, and parents are just as human and almost as vulnerable as their children. -- Benjamin Spock

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