Children know when they are being sold a sanitised version of the world, and I think that's a betrayal of the relationship between author and reader.
A house is never small or empty, when filled with love.
Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.
There would definitely be way fewer instances of cheating, if the average couple did not have sex only when the woman feels like it.
And when the earth began to rumble and quake, as fear and frantic set in, he ran back inside the house past his wife and children, gathering all the valuables and things he thought of importance, and...
It is childish to eat primarily or only to please your tongue.
You know all that sympathy that you feel for an abused child who suffers without a good mom or dad to love and care for them? Well, they don't stay children forever. No one magically becomes an adult...
Life is a process during which one initially gets less and less dependent, independent, and then more and more dependent.
The hurt that troubled children create is never greater than the hurt they feel.
Children imitate their parents, employees their managers.
The father who has selflessly poured himself into the life of his children may leave no other monument than that of his children. But as for a life well lived, no other monument is necessary.