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.
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...
(n.) The state of a parent; the office or character of a parent.
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...
There are only three ways to teach a child. The first is by example, the second is by example, the third is by example.
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....
I have that hypocrisy of a parent in that I'm like,'Come on, you've got to toughen up at the same time let me take care of that for you.
I guess you just have to trust your kids, trust that their innate interest in life will win out in the end, don’t you think?
A love for his child was so profound, it spilled over to all humanity.
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,...
Acknowledge and voice the positives LOUDER than the negatives.
Every parent is at some time the father of the unreturned prodigal, with nothing to do but keep his house open to hope.
Parents are the bones on which children cut their teeth.
Parents are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fulfill the promise of their early years.
The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Teach them the quiet words of kindness, to live beyond themselves. Urge them toward excellence, drive them toward gentleness, pull them deep into yourself, pull them upward toward manhood, but softly...
What a kid I got, I told him about the birds and the bees and he told me about the butcher and my wife.
The fullness ends when we give Nature her ransom, when we make children for her. Then she is through with us, and we become, first inside, and then outside, junk. Flower stalks.
Fathers, provoke not your children to wrath.
I'm shadowboxing in a match the shadow is always going to win. (as a young man battling his deceased brother's heroic legacy)
The fundamental defect of fathers is that they want their children to be a credit to them.
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