For decades, parents were told by so-called parenting 'experts' that offspring would be best raised on the belief each is special and entitled to all life has to offer.
We must return optimism to our parenting. To focus on the joys, not the hassles the love, not the disappointments the common sense, not the complexities.
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.
No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly.
I want to have children, but my friends scare me. One of my friends told me she was in labor for 36 hours. I don't even want to do anything that feels good for 36 hours.
I have three daughters, so I can't be as tough as I want to be. When you have kids - especially daughters - they know how to work you. They're a lot smarter than we are, that's for sure. But I'll be m...
How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted.
A mother who is really a mother is never free.
No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.
The recent spate of magazines for parents (i.e., mothers) bombard the anxiety-induced mothers of America with reassurances that they can (after a $100,000 raise and a personality transplant) produce b...
The danger of motherhood. you relive your early self, through the eyes of your mother.
My parents were nonmaterialistic. They believed that money without knowledge was worthless, that education tempered with religion was the way to climb out of poverty in America, and over the years the...
Imagine what it must be like for teenagers who don't feel they have room to breathe in their own homes. If you are a parent reading this book, you care about your child. If she is quirky, unusual, or...
If you, as a parent, raise your children well, they won't need you anymore. If you did it properly, they go away.
But she needs me more than she needs him and I guess being needed is almost as good as being loved. Maybe better.
But kids don't stay with you if you do it right. It's the one job where, the better you are, the more surely you won't be needed in the long run.
Adolescents need tremendous support as they go about the task of figuring out their identities, their future selves. Too often what they get is intrusion. Intrusion and support are two fundamentally d...
Why shall we talk?To provide the right amount of clarity between family members in their home environment, and to spread the ambiance of honesty and trust between them on the way that uplifts the valu...
There is nothing that moves a loving father's soul quite like his child's cry.
The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant, and let the air out of the tires.