The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
At best, IQ contributes about 20 percent to the factors that determine life success, which leaves 80 percent to other forces.
(n.) The state of a parent; the office or character of a parent.
The aphorism "If you want something done, ask a busy woman" is in direct acknowledgment of the efficiency boot camp parenthood puts you through.
The fullness ends when we give Nature her ransom, when we make children for her. Then she is through with us, and we become, first inside, and then outside, junk. Flower stalks.
Mothers burning inside the risen suns of their children.
Train a child in the way he should go and when he is old he will not depart from it.
Whatever you would have your children become strive to exhibit in your own lives and conversation.
A man with no children can easily be lulled into a sense that time is standing still. It's not. It's marching past us, relentlessly. Having a child growing and changing before your eyes makes this una...
Happiness is when you realize that your kids have grown up to be AWESOME people!
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.
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...
I was too old for my father to (be protective), too young to be flattered.
But I got through the review, for all their Latin and French; I did, and if you doubt me, you just look at the end of the great ledger, turn it upside down, and you'll find I've copied out all the fin...
You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's. He's more particular.
Parentage is a very important profession but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interests of the Children.
They are full of wonder and awe and can play creatively. Sometimes they can sense things that adults often take time to perceive or know. For example, young children are able to make quick intuitive d...
Parenthood makes such sweet hypocrites of us all.
although the stress response was involuntary, the relaxation response required practice.[6]
Anyone can dig a ditch. There's no way to dig smarter. Or dig faster. Having a baby is like being assigned to dig a ditch. That goes all the way to the horizon.
I looked at Lucas with the pang that a parent feels when he knows his child will be hurt and that it's no one's fault and that to try to preempt the rites of passage is an act of contempt for the chil...