God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.
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...
(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 struggle of today, is not altogether for today - it is for a vast future also.
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...
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....
People should be free to find or make for themselves the kinds of educational experiences they want their children to have.
Who takes the child by the hand takes the mother by the heart.
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...
Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.
I can do one of two things. I can be President of the United States or I can control Alice Roosevelt. (His 19-year-old daughter.) I cannot possibly do both.
A mother who is really a mother is never free.
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...
The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant, and let the air out of the tires.
Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children.
Theodore Roosevelt's father wrote him, I fear for your future. We cannot stand so corrupt a government for any great length of time.
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 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...
I demand for the unmarried mother as a sacred channel of life the same reverence and respect as for the married mother for Maternity is a cosmic thing and once it has come to pass our conventions...
Acknowledge and voice the positives LOUDER than the negatives.