It's quite sad that so many children go through life unsure whether their parents love them or not.
When you push your stroller past a group of elderly women, you'll see in the turning gladness of their bodies a glimpse of the children they had been, turning toward the tin music of the ice cream van...
(n.) The state of a parent; the office or character of a parent.
The most incredible thing about being a parent is seeing your own personality come out in your children.
There are only three ways to teach a child. The first is by example, the second is by example, the third is by example.
When (The World According To) Garp was published, people who’d lost children wrote to me. ‘’I lost one, too,’’ they told me. I confessed to them that I hadn’t lost any children. I’m just a father with...
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.
Children's as good as 'rithmetic to set you findin' out things.
Who doesn't desire his father's death?
The fundamental defect of fathers is that they want their children to be a credit to them.
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...
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...
At best, IQ contributes about 20 percent to the factors that determine life success, which leaves 80 percent to other forces.
The aphorism "If you want something done, ask a busy woman" is in direct acknowledgment of the efficiency boot camp parenthood puts you through.
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...
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.
Whatever you would have your children become strive to exhibit in your own lives and conversation.
Happiness is when you realize that your kids have grown up to be AWESOME people!
Train a child in the way he should go and when he is old he will not depart from it.
You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's. He's more particular.
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.