~As a mom, you have to look at how much time you're spending with your kids. There is nothing you will regret more in your life - nothing - than not being present for your children.~
Interpretation
This quote emphasizes the importance of being present in your children's lives to avoid future regrets.
Jamie Lee Curtis highlights the value of quality time with one’s children, stressing that one of the profound regrets in life is not being there for them. The quote serves as a reminder for parents to prioritize their involvement and presence, as meaningful connections during childhood have lasting impacts on both the parent and child.
In practice
A speaker at a parenting workshop could use this quote to start a discussion about work-life balance.
Modern women are just bombarded. There's nothing but media telling us we're all supposed to be great cooks, have great style, be great in bed, be the best mothers, speak seven languages, and be able to understand derivatives. And we don't really have women we're modeling after, so we're all looking for how to do this.
The most rewarding aspect of parenting is seeing my children be authentic. The most rewarding thing for me is to see them do anything that they're proud of.
I am appalled that the term we use to talk about aging is 'anti'. Aging is human evolution in its pure form. Death, taxes and aging .... We are ALL going to age and soften and mellow and transition.
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The more I like me, the less I want to pretend to be other people.
I understood that my family was rich in love but would probably never own the land my father, John, dreamed of owning. My mother, Willie Ella Mays Clarke, was a washerwoman for poor white folks in the area of Columbus, Georgia where the writer Carson McCullers once lived.
Asking me to describe my son is like asking me to hold the ocean in a paper cup
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When God thought of mother, He must have laughed with satisfaction, and framed it quickly - so rich, so deep, so divine, so full of soul, power, and beauty, was the conception.
Every child needs at least one adult who is irrationally crazy about him or her.
All the time a person is a child he is both a child and learning to be a parent. After he becomes a parent he becomes predominantly a parent reliving childhood.
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