It's a huge change for your body. You don't even want to look in the mirror after you've had a baby, because your stomach is just hanging there like a Shar-Pei.
In my entire life, I never once heard either of my parents say they were stressed. That was just not a phrase I grew up being allowed to say. That, and the concept of Me time.
Raising human offspring is an endeavor nothing less than a continued labor of patience, hard work, organization and ongoing adaptation. All of which is unlike that expected of any other living creatur...
Expect progress, not perfection.
It takes a great woman to respect the little man in her child, and the little child in her man.
Father had stretched out his long legs and was tilting back in his chair. Mother sat with her knees crossed, in blue slacks, smoking a Chesterfield. The dessert dishes were still on the table. My sist...
You can say the same thing nicely.
Everything we say or don't say makes an imprint on our child's heart.
The best security blanket a child can have is parents who respect each other.
The most precious gift that you can give to the child is unconditional love and acceptance, which allows the child to discover his own inner being, his authentic self, his freedom to be himself.
There is no job more important than parenting. This I believe.
What lingers from the parent's individual past, unresolved or incomplete, often becomes part of her or his irrational parenting.
Parents should not smoke in order to discourage their kids from smoking. A child is more likely to smoke when they have been raised in the environment of a smoker.
When we say fathers are helping, we are suggesting that child care is a mother's territory, into which fathers valiantly venture. It is not.
At least he kept trying to express himself, his real self, as motley and inchoate for now as the outfit he was wearing. And maybe that was part of the purpose of middle school: to give you something t...
Correction badly undertaken creates distance.
So much is asked of parents, and so little is given.
To teach someone a lesson, show them how it's done. Force is a temporary solution. Judgment is no solution at all.
I've realised now that the reality of children is you have to be in the right place with the right person.
Very often when you see families it's all perfect and neat, and parenting isn't like that. You do have constant negotiations. Things are ever developing and ever changing, and you constantly have to e...