If you remain dependent on your parents all your life, do not carry a wrong pretence that you are even born.
You can say the same thing nicely.
Parenting is a partnership. Loving each other has a big impact on your children.
If there is any truth to my parenting the dreamwork movement, it comes from the power of the press.
Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to be wise... specialized competence and success are all that they can imagine.
I realize that of all people, I am no expert on parenting or marriage.
There's really no point in having children if you're not going to be home enough to father them.
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.
If you want to be treated like a mother, act like one.
I myself, said Gibbon, am slightly underdone in the personal worthlessness line. It was Papa's fault. He used no irony. The communications mix offered by the parent to the child is as you know twelve...
I don't remember who said this, but there really are places in the heart you don't even know exist until you love a child.
Fear of the Dark I’ve always been prone to worry and anxiety, but after I became a mother, negotiating joy, gratitude, and scarcity felt like a full-time job. For years, my fear of something terrible...
Do not expect too much from your child and she will grow in your love... But if you push her too much, you will push her away. A child is not yours to own but to raise. She may not be what you will ha...
But I think parents aren't teachers anymore. Parents -- or a whole lot of us, at least -- lead by mouth instead of by example. It seems to me that if a child's hero is their mother or father -- or eve...
Correction badly undertaken creates distance.
I don't understand why some kids git a good school and mother and father and some don't. But Rita say forgit the WHY ME shit and git on to what's next.
Intensive mothering is the ultimate female Olympics: We are all in powerful competition with each other, in constant danger of being trumped by the mom down the street, or in the magazine we're readin...
Parenting is a giant responsibility forever, so we need to learn how to drop the guilt and go easy on ourselves when we mess up.
There's no single effort more radical in it's potential for saving the world than a transformation of the way we raise our children.
Three great lessons for my children; love God, love yourself and love your neighbour as yourself.