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.
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...
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...
Then the dreaded words, Your child has autism. These words echo in their heads like a freight train blasting through their hopes and dreams.
If you bungle raising children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.
That's the news from Lake Woebegon, where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average.
If you remain dependent on your parents all your life, do not carry a wrong pretence that you are even born.
Asking a parent not to be a parent is like asking the sun not to be hot or snow not to be cold.
Parenting is a partnership. Loving each other has a big impact on your children.
Reckless behavior, particularly in young boys, may be the uncontrolled expression of a legitimate, even Godly, desire to strive after great and noble deeds. And when the desire for adventure follows a...
When a child is locked in the bathroom with water running and he says he's doing nothing but the dog is barking, call 911.
Three great lessons for my children; love God, love yourself and love your neighbour as yourself.
The answer to violence is the improvement of childhood.
I'm torn about late parenting. I believe people should spend their twenties living and having fun and not having any regrets later. I also think people in their thirties generally make better parents...
Success for me its to raise happy, healthy human beings.
Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.
Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process.
Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them.