Don't stand unmoving outside the door of a crying baby whose only desire is to touch you. Go to your baby. Go to your baby a million times. Demonstrate that people can be trusted, that the environment...
Before I got married I had six theories about raising children; now, I have six children and no theories.
Learning to accept powerlessness has profound spiritual implications for your child. When we accept the reality of our human condition -- that we are ultimately powerless to change our fallen state, y...
A person who has proper guidance from his or her early childhood can himself or herself expanding his or her horizons living in a well established environment with great level of knowledge and being f...
To me luxury is to be at home with my daughter, and the occasional massage doesn't hurt.
We sucked in atheism with our canned milk.
As a mother I see the future in the present. Every little thing she does or says makes me form a hypothesis of how she will see life and treat others in 20 years. So I plan for how amazing she will be...
Do you want to be an artist and a writer, or a wife and a lover? With kids, your focus changes. I don't want to go to PTA meetings.
Of course, the ideal scenario for parenting is obviously two parents of a mature age.
You are born into a family and those are your people, and they know you and they love you, and if you are lucky they even on occasion manage to understand you. And that ought to be enough. But it is n...
Without the support from religion--remember, we talked about it--no father, using only his own resources, would be able to bring up a child.
Don't count on me to take you in because I'm angry. I'm angry at you for leading us on such a song and dance all these years, not just these few years but all the years, skipping all those holidays an...
Mothering Oxymoron: Reminding the kids to not talk with food in their mouths, yet I have food in my mouth while trying to correct them in the moment.
Who's crazy: people who trust other people, or people who don't?
When our feet talk to us, we listen.
If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them, and half as much money.
If you're asking your kids to exercise, then you better do it, too. Practice what you preach.
The well-being and welfare of children should always be our focus.
It's not politically correct to say that you love one child more than you love your others. I love of my kids, period, and they're all your favorites in different ways. But ask any parent who's been...
The greatest challenge of parenting is in the inner work it requires: the strength and confidence in believing that we are not in control of, but the answer for our children.