There is no better example for our children,then the one we set before them every day
It could not have been easy for Mother, an only child, to grow up without a father and with a mother who was remote. Photos of her as a child show her extremely dressed up --Cornie's beautiful little...
We spend the first 12 months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next 12 months teaching them to sit down and shut up.
There is nothing that moves a loving father's soul quite like his child's cry.
Courageous parenting does not always involve saying no. Parents also need courage to say yes to the counsel of modern-day prophets. Our Church leaders have counseled us to establish righteous patterns...
The greatest possessions I leave for my children are books.
Time grants a unique perspective which allows us to see events through a filter of accumulated wisdom.
Parents are key when it comes to keeping kids off drugs. Good parenting is the best anti-drug we have.
The truth is that parents are not really interested in justice. They just want quiet.
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.
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...
Of course, everyone's parents are embarrassing. It goes with the territory. The nature of parents is to embarrass merely by existing, just as it is the nature of children of a certain age to cringe wi...
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...
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.
Listening to our kids with an open heart & mind is the strongest way to build a relationship with them - especially when they're wrong.
Mostly good is enough. Mostly good produces healthy kids who know they are valued and either forget the other parts or turn them into funny stories.
You'll never be hurt as much by being open as you have been remaining closed.
Remember, you are not managing an inconvenience; You are raising a human being.
For Parents: Never blame or scold a child for their first mistake after all family is the first school from where a child learns.
What makes you think children like childish things? Don't tell them how to be children. They want to grow up.