Being a parent is one of the best, stressful, guilty, rewarding, sad, happy, frustrating, cherished, disgusting, fun, ridiculous, time consuming, joyful, maddening, worrisome, hectic, magical, nostalg...
I have a neuroscience background - that's what my doctorate is in - and I was trained to study hormones of attachment, so I definitely feel my parenting is informed by that.
My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.
Morality in the general is well enough known by men, but the particular refinements of virtue are unknown by most persons; thus the majority of parents, without knowing it and without intending it, gi...
It wasn't right that you could only understand your parents' pain once you'd experienced the things they had, and by then they were gone.
When I think of Tomodachi, I think of your mother. Your mother, she too lose her baby. She lose you. That very sad thing for her. Maybe she come looking, and she not find you. You not there when she c...
The best antidote to worry is action. If there is an action that will lessen the likelihood of a dreaded outcome occurring, and if that action doesn't cost too much in terms of effort or freedom, then...
What a difference it makes to come home to a child!
No, I've never wanted kids. But I do read about parenting a lot.
What makes people good communicators is, in essence, an ability not to be fazed by the more problematic or offbeat aspects of their own characters. They can contemplate their anger, their sexuality, a...
Our children are only as brilliant as we allow them to be.
Autism is a neurological disorder. It's not caused by bad parenting. It's caused by, you know, abnormal development in the brain. The emotional circuits in the brain are abnormal. And there also are d...
A baby is born with a need to be loved - and never outgrows it.
Few things are more satisfying than seeing your children have teenagers of their own.
Who we are and how we engage with the world are much stronger predictors of how our children will do than what we know about parenting. In terms of teaching our children to dare greatly in the never e...
The only persons who seem to have nothing to do with the education of the children are the parents.
Each of Nora's children had arrived on this earth as him or herself, the more she knew them, the more she felt it to be true. They were so different from one another, and from her.
Spanking a child is about the parent not the child. The child will learn more from positive correction than physical manipulation.
Some people say I raised a good child. I like to think of it as my child raised a good parent.
One thing I had learned from watching chimpanzees with their infants is that having a child should be fun.