The greatest possessions I leave for my children are books.
Since God lives in the heart, I was not to seek some Being way up in the sky . . . my journey to God was not outward, but inward! The only way to get closer to God was to become ordered enough inside...
The answer to violence is the improvement of childhood.
Time grants a unique perspective which allows us to see events through a filter of accumulated wisdom.
Parents have become so convinced educators know what is best for children that they forget that they themselves are really the experts.
Having children is like living in a frat house - nobody sleeps, everything's broken, and there's a lot of throwing up.
To be in your children's memories tomorrow,You have to be in their lives today.
I grew up with no money. My kids will grow up with a lot of money and so it's really important to me, and it will always be a part of my parenting, to keep them conscientious and connected socially to...
My grandmother was a kind of Scarsdale, New York, society woman, best known in her day as the author of the 1959 book 'Growing Your Own Way: An Informal Guide for Teen-Agers' - this despite being a pe...
Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.
At the end of the day, the most overwhelming key to a child's success is the positive involvement of parents.
Every cliche about kids is true they grow up so quickly, you blink and they're gone, and you have to spend the time with them now. But that's a joy.
I figure that if the children are alive when I get home, I've done my job.
I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home.
Family involvement is a valuable thing and playing together actively can be the '90s version of it. Instead of just watching, you can do it together... something we don't spend enough time on. We can...
Abortion is defended today as a means of ensuring the equality and independence of women, and as a solution to the problems of single parenting, child abuse, and the feminization of poverty.
Education, like neurosis, begins at home.
We pretend that we know our children, because it's easier than admitting the truth--from the minute that cord is cut, they are strangers. It's far easier to tell yourself your daughter is still a litt...
History repeated itself. The 'don't do the things I did' mantra was tiresome pish. The best way to make sure your children don't grow up as cunts is not to be one yourself - or not to let them SEE you...
But no one is easier to delude than a parent; they see only what they wish to see.