Passion stimulates you, love intoxicates you, marriage sobers you, and parenthood tries you.
If I had to do it all again, I would still want my same daughter and two sons; through laughter, tears, prayers, and blessings.
(n.) The state of a parent; the office or character of a parent.
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.
An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.
I'm listening to my son right now.
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...
Nobody works harder at learning than a curious kid.
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.
A rich child often sits in a poor mother's lap.
I don't have any babies or ambition. I have it all!
Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.
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.
Dinner is a cacophonous exercise of holy sanctification.
Parenthood is a very sacred journey but only a few owe it!
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...
Parents are the bones on which children cut their teeth.
There are no verdicts to childhood, only consequences, and the bright freight of memory.
My son will wear the title well, the Duke thought, and realized with a sudden chill that this was another death thought.
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....