God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.
Children's as good as 'rithmetic to set you findin' out things.
(n.) The state of a parent; the office or character of a parent.
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...
No true...father would be unconcerned about discord in his family that may cause it to disintegrate in his absence...
In our society, if someone wants to be a hairstylist or a kickboxer or a hunting guide -or a schoolteacher- he or she must be trained and licensed by a state agency. No such requirement is necessary f...
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 most incredible thing about being a parent is seeing your own personality come out in your children.
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.
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...
The best brought-up children are those who have seen their parents as they are. Hypocrisy is not the parents' first duty.
You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's. He's more particular.
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...
Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.
Whatever you would have your children become strive to exhibit in your own lives and conversation.
Your children need your presence more than your presents.
People should be free to find or make for themselves the kinds of educational experiences they want their children to have.
Before they had kids, if asked to conjure images of parenthood they would have said things like Reading in bed, and Giving a bath, and Running while holding the seat of a bicycle. Parenthood contains...
But the truth is, the ten or twenty minutes I was somebody’s mother were black magic. There is no adventure I would trade them for; there is no place I would rather have seen. -Thanksgiving in Mongoli...
I wanted you to know that the world in its entirety could never be found in the schools, alone, nor the streets, alone, nor in the trophy case. I wanted you to claim the whole world, as it is.
In the mystifying world that was Victorian parenthood, obedience took precedence over all considerations of affection and happiness, and that odd, painful conviction remained the case in most well-hee...
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