Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.
Acknowledge and voice the positives LOUDER than the negatives.
(n.) The state of a parent; the office or character of a parent.
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.
The struggle of today, is not altogether for today - it is for a vast future also.
If your child is constantly interrupting or doing other things to get your attention, he is not getting enough communication of the right kind. Just the fact that you are in the house with him all day...
No true...father would be unconcerned about discord in his family that may cause it to disintegrate in his absence...
The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant, and let the air out of the tires.
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?
She was an alien, really - a sort of eating, pooping, tantrum machine - and he didn't understand anything about her species.
It'll be when you first learn to walk that I get daily demonstrations of the asymmetry in our relationship. You'll be incessantly running off somewhere, and each time you walk into a door frame or scr...
Theodore Roosevelt's father wrote him, I fear for your future. We cannot stand so corrupt a government for any great length of time.
The best way to bring up some children is short.
The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
I believe my mother was smart enough to know that in the night, you are willing to tell all. If she waited until the next day, she knew she'd get one-syllable answers.
Children are God's gift.
It's my responsibility to cultivate the man in my son. I can't be passive about that.
Fatherhood to us was an act of passion, soon forgot; but not to Orem ap Avonap. Never guessing that the blond and happy farmer was no blood of his, Orem had taken a part of that simple man into himsel...
To become a father is not hard to be a father is however.
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...
Every beetle is a gazelle in the eyes of its mother.