Responsible parenting is NOT a crime. Responsible parenting is most valuable tool of our society.
I'm worried about parents who aren't parenting.
It's a great mistake, I think, to put children off with falsehoods and nonsense, when their growing powers of observation and discrimination excite in them a desire to know about things.
Now and again, one could detect in a childless woman of a certain age the various characteristics of all the children she had never issued. Her body was haunted by the ghost of souls who hadn't lived...
If you can give your son or daughet only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.
My mom is cool and my mom will treat you right.
In the United States today, there is a pervasive tendency to treat children as adults, and adults as children. The options of children are thus steadily expanded, while those of adults are progressive...
I'd just as soon stay home and raise babies.
Ha! Kids! You have no idea what you put your parents through, either. Wait till you have your own, you'll see. That's when you'll know what it really feels like." .. "What what feels like?"..."Love,"...
Motherhood isn't just about making babies, it's about making lives and molding destinies.
Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.
Maybe we swore we would never be harsh with our children the way others were harsh with us. Then, just when they need us most - when they act up and misbehave and call us names and son on - we get ang...
No occupation in this world is more trying to soul and body than the care of young children. What patience and wisdom, skill and unlimited love it calls for. God gave the work to mothers and furnished...
What we are teaches the child far more than what we say, so we must be what we want our children to become.
Kid's don't care how many sermons you preach to them. The only sermon they'll hear is how you live your life in front of them.
Why shall we talk?To depend on the conversation style as a primary language of effectiveness on the other person, in a way that respects the feelings without hurting the human soul dignity, or humilia...
If your boundary training consists only of words, you are wasting your breath. But if you 'do' boundaries with your kids, they internalize the experiences, remember them, digest them, and make them pa...
If the sound of happy children is grating on your ears, I don't think it's the children who need to be adjusted.
No one knows his true character until he has run out of gas, purchased something on the installment plan and raised an adolescent.
Whatever emotional state you’re in while you’re parenting conveys more to your child than the content of what you're doing with them, no matter how perfect your intervention looks on paper. In other w...