The fundamental condition of childhood is powerlessness.
I tried to teach them [his sons] that about the importance of self-discipline, and that the culture of yes is built on a foundation of no.
The way we talk to our children becomes their inner voice.
If from infancy you treat children as gods, they are liable in adulthood to act as devils.
I can speak of our baby like this to no one else. Who but his father would linger over the exact width of his gummy little smile or the blueness of his eyes, or the sweetness of his little lick of taw...
Perhaps it is different for humans, dear prince," she said, sounding sad, "but we have found that the underdisciplined child will bump up against life eventually and learn their lesson that way - albe...
You put a certain amount of effort into stitching a jacket or dress and you get the garment you expect. There's no mystery. But you put a thousand times more effort into raising your child and the res...
Children can be told anything—anything. I've always been struck by seeing how little grown-up people understand children, how little parents even understand their own children. Nothing should be conce...