Parentage is a very important profession but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interests of the Children.
The best brought-up children are those who have seen their parents as they are. Hypocrisy is not the parents' first duty.
(n.) The state of a parent; the office or character of a parent.
A father is a banker provided by nature.
No matter how old a mother is she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement.
Train a child in the way he should go and when he is old he will not depart from it.
I suppose you're going to say that I'm not a good mother.'
It's the silliness--the profligacy, and the silliness--that's so dizzying: a seven-year-old will run downstairs, kiss you hard, and then run back upstairs again, all in less than 30 seconds. It's as u...
You know your children are growing up when they stop asking you where they came from and refuse to tell you where they're going.
We made mistakes trying to correct mistakes. Isn't that how we knew we were parents?
The goal of a true family is not that their children follow in their footsteps, but that their children surpass them in all ways.
Every beetle is a gazelle in the eyes of its mother.
Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son.
To become a father is not hard to be a father is however.
The thing about having a baby is that thereafter you have it.
In biblical times, they used to stone a few thirteen-year-olds with some regularity, which helped keep the others quiet and at home. The mothers were usually in the first row of stone throwers, and ha...
Memories particularly of when they weren’t being what parents are nine-tenths of the time, the taskmasters, the examples, the moral authorities, the nags of pick-that-up and you’re-going-to-be-late, k...
We are now parents. The love for our offspring has opened up fresh fountains of love for each other. Edwin Stanton to his wife.
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.
. . . I would have let him go one finger at a time, until, without his realizing, he'd be floating without me. And then I thought, perhaps that is what it means to be a [parent] - to teach your child...
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