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
although the stress response was involuntary, the relaxation response required practice.[6]
(n.) The state of a parent; the office or character of a parent.
I wanted to explain so much to him at that moment, but you can't give a six-year-old the perspective of a 40-year-old, not really, so I gave him the short course.
It's quite sad that so many children go through life unsure whether their parents love them or not.
Happiness is when you realize that your kids have grown up to be AWESOME people!
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
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'm shadowboxing in a match the shadow is always going to win. (as a young man battling his deceased brother's heroic legacy)
Parenthood makes such sweet hypocrites of us all.
We have enough money. You don't want to be Uncle Daddy.
I don't have any babies or ambition. I have it all!
. . . I would have let him go one finger at a time, until, without his realizing, he'd be floating without me. And then I thought, perhaps that is what it means to be a [parent] - to teach your child...
Having kids - the responsibility of rearing good, kind, ethical, responsible human beings - is the biggest job anyone can embark on. As with any risk, you have to take a leap of faith and ask lots of...
A man can make a son but a true man would be a father. A lady can have a child, but a real mother raises the child.
Parenthood is a very sacred journey but only a few owe it!
The thing is, after having your first baby - there is no 'normal'. The reason form this is that there is actually no time for normality. Feeding, changing, washing muslins and generally cooing over yo...
Make me the father, O Lord, who will show my sons enough of a sense of humor, so that they will always be serious, but never take themselves too seriously. Give them humility, so they will always reme...
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.
The goal of a true family is not that their children follow in their footsteps, but that their children surpass them in all ways.
This anxiety to keep his father from anger was wearisome to him.
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