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.
I've said it before, but it's absolutely true: My mother gave me my drive, but my father gave me my dreams. Thanks to him, I could see a future.
In truth, I am a single mother. But I don't feel alone at all in parenting my daughter. Krishna has a whole other side of her family who loves her, too. And so Krishna is parented by me, but also by h...
[My dad] didn't do much apart from the traditional winning of bread. He didn't take me to get my hair cut or my teeth cleaned; he didn't make the appointments. He didn't shop for my clothes. He didn't...
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...
What we are most passionate about becomes our legacy.
It reminds me that we are born innocent but ignorant, and that to remedy the second of these conditions we inevitably surrender the first.
It is high time that we had a subject called Childrening, as we have one called Parenting!
It's not only children who grow. Parents do too. As much as we watch to see what our children do with their lives, they are watching us to see what we do with ours. I can't tell my children to reach f...
Do not let the endless succession of small things crowd great ideals out of sight and out of mind.
The best gift you can give to your kids is a happy marriage.
We must return to optimism in our parenting. To focus on the joys, not the hassles; the love, not the disappointments; the common sense, not the complexities.
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...
Parenting: Nobody really wants the job, but everybody thinks they can do better.
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...
Children are made readers on the laps of their parents.
What a kid I got, I told him about the birds and the bees and he told me about the butcher and my wife.
Sometimes, kids want you to hurt the way they hurt.
I came to parenting the way most of us do - knowing nothing and trying to learn everything.
Believe me, my children have more stamina than a power station.