If I had to do it all again, I would still want my same daughter and two sons; through laughter, tears, prayers, and blessings.
All of us have moments in out lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.
(n.) The state of a parent; the office or character of a parent.
Drawing from 1.7 million Gallup surveys collected between 2008 and 2012, researchers Angus Deaton and Arthur Stone found that parents with children at home age fifteen or younger experience more highs...
It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn.
As long as Nelson was socked into baseball statistics or that guitar or even the rock records that threaded their sound through all the fibers of the house, his occupation of the room down the hall wa...
Originality must compound with inheritance.
An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.
It takes a tremendous amount of strength to be a single mother. To hold down the forte of a home, a life and your child's entire happiness.
Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.
It's a strange thing, having a child, he said. It completely alters your most fundamental priorities. When my eldest daughter was born, I realized that I would do anything - anything - to protect her....
There are no verdicts to childhood, only consequences, and the bright freight of memory.
Nobody works harder at learning than a curious kid.
Faith can be very very dangerous, and deliberately to implant it into the vulnerable mind of an innocent child is a grievous wrong.
Each of Nora's children had arrived on this earth as him or herself, the more she knew them, the more she felt it to be true. They were so different from one another, and from her.
I don't have any babies or ambition. I have it all!
Why do men like me want sons? he wondered. It must be because they hope in their poor beaten souls that these new men, who are their blood, will do the things they were not strong enough nor wise enou...
My son will wear the title well, the Duke thought, and realized with a sudden chill that this was another death thought.
It wasn't right that you could only understand your parents' pain once you'd experienced the things they had, and by then they were gone.
Incidentally, I have also learned a bit about the importance of avoiding feminine embarrassment ('Daddy,' wrote Sophia when she enrolled at the New School where I teach, 'people will ask why is old Ch...
I'm listening to my son right now.