We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do. We should set them an example that we wish them to imitate.
Do not let the endless succession of small things crowd great ideals out of sight and out of mind.
We are born, we grow up, we live our lives as best we can. If we are thoughtful we are good parents and good partners. If we are wise we strive for integrity and intimacy. If we are fortunate we disco...
It may be that mothers have a hard time discerning between when sons need comforting and when they need bucking up. Here's a rule of thumb: If he hasn't faced the trial yet, or he's in the midst of it...
One reason we have children I think is to learn that parts of ourselves we had given up for dead are merely dormant and that the old joys can re emerge fresh and new and in a completely different form...
What a kid I got, I told him about the birds and the bees and he told me about the butcher and my wife.
If you possess the character that you have in your daily lives, nobody can't forcefully change your personality unless you embrace their influence.
My father was a farmer and my mother was a farmer, but, my childhood was very good. I am very grateful for my childhood, because it was full of gladness and good humanity.
We all have an interest in making sure teens grow up healthy and drug-free.
The interesting thing about being a mother is that everyone wants pets, but no one but me cleans the kitty litter.
Girls are the future mothers of our society, and it is important that we focus on their well-being.
It's hard enough to work and raise a family when your kids are all healthy and relatively normal, but when you add on some kind of disability or disease, it can just be such a burden.
When a parent shows up with an attitude of entitlement, understand that under it is a boatload of anxiety.
The world is in a mad dash of personal peace and affluence. Sadly, too often the evangelical church is not much different. Of course, we want our children to become Christians. But that is just an add...
Patty believed that parents have a duty to teach their children how to recognize reality when they see it.
If we can keep ourselves from interfering with the natural laws of life, mistakes can be our child's finest teachers.
I thank my mother (Ma, you're only second cause you got the dedication), who used to make me write essays whenever I got into trouble, explaining exactly what I'd done and why I'd done it.
Watch it,' her mom snapped. 'Don't start a fight just because it's the easiest thing to do.
There are parents who use their small children as weapons. They are weak people. Sick people. And their children are watching them, watching how Mom and Dad use them as weapons.
The greatest gift a parent can give a child is self-confidence.