What a kid I got, I told him about the birds and the bees and he told me about the butcher and my wife.
A love for his child was so profound, it spilled over to all humanity.
(n.) The state of a parent; the office or character of a parent.
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.
The speaker says one of the blessings of the family of God is that the enthusiasm of children influences their elders while experience seasons the younger members.
Mothers burning inside the risen suns of their children.
Do not expect too much from your child and she will grow in your love... But if you push her too much, you will push her away. A child is not yours to own but to raise. She may not be what you will ha...
Parents accept their obsolescence with the best grace they can muster. . . they do all they can to make it easy for the younger generation to surpass the older while secretly dreading the rejection t...
We no longer get work out of our children; today we get meaning.
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...
There are times when parenthood seems nothing more than feeding the hand that bites you.
Oh, brothers and sisters, families can be forever! Do not let the lures [or the irritants] of the moment draw you away from them! Divinity, eternity, and family--they go together, hand in hand, and so...
The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother, and to b...
A few days after we came home from the hospital, I sent a letter to a friend, including a photo of my son and some first impressions of fatherhood. He responded, simply, 'Everything is possible again....
A Nobel Prize winner was asked how he became a scientist. He said that every day after school, his mother would ask him not what he learned but whether he asked a good question today. That, he said, w...
People should be free to find or make for themselves the kinds of educational experiences they want their children to have.
A father is a banker provided by nature.
Parenthood makes such sweet hypocrites of us all.
Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have 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...
The thing about having a baby is that thereafter you have it.