The Mother Thing makes our world.
Lee was a born pedagogue, never happier than when his children were learning to do something the right way. It is a testament to Lee's affection and patience that his children did not rebel. In fact,...
(n.) The state of a parent; the office or character of a parent.
Fathers, provoke not your children to wrath.
Excitement about things became a habit, a part of my personality, and the expectation that I should enjoy new experiences often engendered the enjoyment itself.
The only thing you really need to be a writer is time. Regular, consistent time, quality time when you're not tired. I write on the bus to and from work, that's my time, 1 or 2 hours every single day....
Through the blur, I wondered if I was alone or if other parents felt the same way I did - that everything involving our children was painful in some way. The emotions, whether they were joy, sorrow, l...
Raising teenage sons and daughters is a long and tiresome journey. With God's help the final outcome will be worthwhile.
God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.
I'm shadowboxing in a match the shadow is always going to win. (as a young man battling his deceased brother's heroic legacy)
George III was incapable of passing on a sense of mission to his son might a given some purpose to the crown prince's existence
To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while.
Every parent is at some time the father of the unreturned prodigal, with nothing to do but keep his house open to hope.
In the mystifying world that was Victorian parenthood, obedience took precedence over all considerations of affection and happiness, and that odd, painful conviction remained the case in most well-hee...
But the truth is, the ten or twenty minutes I was somebody’s mother were black magic. There is no adventure I would trade them for; there is no place I would rather have seen. -Thanksgiving in Mongoli...
Parenthood...It's about guiding the next generation, and forgiving the last.
A good mother does not live only for her children. She always has some bond with other mothers, no matter what class, nationality or race they may be. All mothers have the same joys, the same sorrows,...
Your children need your presence more than your presents.
Who takes the child by the hand takes the mother by the heart.
We have enough money. You don't want to be Uncle Daddy.
It takes a society to raise a generation.