The interesting thing about being a mother is that everyone wants pets, but no one but me cleans the kitty litter.
No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly.
It is a sad commentary of our times when our young must seek advice and counsel from 'Dear Abby' instead of going to Mom and Dad.
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.
Family life was wonderful. The streets were bleak. The playgrounds were bleak. But home was always warm. My mother and father had a great relationship. I always felt 'safe' there.
I get whatever placidity I have from my father. But my mother taught me how to take it on the chin.
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.
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.
I barely have time for my own children. To adopt more children and not have time for them, that would be poor parenting on my part.
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...
The mother is the child's first relationship, his whole world, his existence. If there is love in the relationship between the child and the mother, the child learns to trust himself, to trust others...
As the adults, we are the ones who set the stage for vitality, love, or disharmony in the home. We set ourselves up for one or the other, and our children take their cues from us.
The best gift you can give to your kids is a happy marriage.
Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them.
The best way to make children good is to make them happy.
My job is to make you think what you think is your businessRjS
If your parents are getting older, you must treat them as your own child
As children we are taught, "Sticks and stones may break my bones but words can never hurt me!" As adults we teach those same words to our own children while simultaneously we sue one another for defam...
Correction badly undertaken creates distance.
I figure when my husband comes home from work, if the kids are still alive, then I've done my job.
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