I regret not having had more time with my kids when they were growing up.
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.
Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted.
I realize that of all people, I am no expert on parenting or marriage.
I figure that if the children are alive when I get home, I've done my job.
I wasn't very good about juggling family and my career. I was interested in who was coming to the children's birthday party, what my son was writing. I was thinking about Legos.
Loving a child doesn't mean giving in to all his whims to love him is to bring out the best in him, to teach him to love what is difficult.
When a parent shows up with an attitude of entitlement, understand that under it is a boatload of anxiety.
Patty believed that parents have a duty to teach their children how to recognize reality when they see it.
It was love without reason, love for something futureless, love that appeared to exist only to be itself, imperious and all demanding, the kind that would cause him to make a fool of himself in an ins...
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.
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.
Misbehavior and punishment are not opposites that cancel each other - on the contrary they breed and reinforce each other.
Children make your lives a mess and set your priorities straight.
If there is any truth to my parenting the dreamwork movement, it comes from the power of the press.
I've become sort of an accidental advocate for attachment parenting, which is a style of parenting that... basically, the way mammals parent and the way people have parented for pretty much all of hum...
Relationships are complicated no matter what style of parenting you choose.
My childhood should have taught me lessons for my own fatherhood, but it didn't because parenting can only be learned by people who have no children.
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.
Mama and Daddy King represent the best in manhood and womanhood, the best in a marriage, the kind of people we are trying to become.