The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant, and let the air out of the tires.
It takes a society to raise a generation.
(n.) The state of a parent; the office or character of a parent.
Happiness is when you realize that your kids have grown up to be AWESOME people!
We made mistakes trying to correct mistakes. Isn't that how we knew we were parents?
Train a child in the way he should go and when he is old he will not depart from it.
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...
Mothers burning inside the risen suns of their children.
We no longer get work out of our children; today we get meaning.
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...
The child's existence turned a plain world to riches. Her life raised up like this, the child giving point and purpose to each day, the care of him transforming her, widening and deepening her.
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.
although the stress response was involuntary, the relaxation response required practice.[6]
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.
Insanity is hereditary - you can get it from your children.
Their lifelong love of learning, their remarkable wide-ranging intellectual curiosity, was fostered primarily by their father. He read aloud to them at night, eliciting their responses to works of his...
In the midst of the affliction He counsels, strengthens confirms, nourishes, and favors us.... More over, when we have repented, He instantly remits the sins as well as the punishments. In the same ma...
It is eighteen years ago, almost to the day-A sunny day with the leaves just turning,The touch-lines new-ruled - since I watched you playYour first game of fotball, then, like a satelliteWrenched from...
It's quite sad that so many children go through life unsure whether their parents love them or not.
Parenthood makes such sweet hypocrites of us all.
This anxiety to keep his father from anger was wearisome to him.
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