Faith can be very very dangerous, and deliberately to implant it into the vulnerable mind of an innocent child is a grievous wrong.
Our children are only as brilliant as we allow them to be.
(n.) The state of a parent; the office or character of a parent.
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.
If my children think I'm genuine, no one else's opinion matters to me.
Parents are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fulfill the promise of their early years.
He was fortified by a memory which kept only the good things and rejected the ill. Despite his sorrows, he had had a fair share of joys and these were ever fresh and accessible.
Shouldn't we also ask ourselves what the consequences are of scrambling to provide the "most" of everything to our children in a world of fast dwindling resources?
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...
The very lack of explicit pressure was itself a compelling force, for it created a world in which the expectation of success was simply there, a fact of life as basic as breakfast.
I watched 60 Minutes...and they showed this woman, she's in every kind of..thing like that. 'This woman', they say, 'she lost her first four children--died from malnutrition--and, now, she's afraid th...
Insanity is hereditary - you can get it from your children.
He has not shown the special interest in reading that we should like to see but he likes shop work. George H. W. Bush's parents on his Andover application
When one has not had a good father, one must create one.
Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.
Diogenes struck the father when the son swore.
It would have been helpful if there was a Mayo Clinic chapter about the topic of "leaving." Man, I would have read that chapter over and over -- leaving your wailing baby in the morning without wantin...
When we raise our children to Shine, the future becomes brighter!
Parents need to see that every situation that their kids find themselves in is a teaching situation, and they need to take the time to explore cost and effect. So talking to your children, explaining...
A mother who is really a mother is never free.