To be quite frank, I don't know nor understand how one can stand up and say I'm a 'perfect father'! I reckon myself to be a great dad in my children's eyes and maybe the kids I interact with just by p...
To you who are parents, I say, show love to your children. You know you love them, but make certain they know it as well. They are so precious. Let them know. Call upon our Heavenly Father for help as...
Being a good parent requires being an outstanding sales person. Direct communication and motivating our children, or young adults with our ideals isn't easy. It's a lifetime job and job of a lifetime.
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...
Having children is like living in a frat house - nobody sleeps, everything's broken, and there's a lot of throwing up.
While not impossible, it is especially challenging for teenage parents to develop bonds with their children. A high percent of them were themselves children of teenage parents and have never experienc...
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.
Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.
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.
My kids love it. I thought I was the coolest dad in the world when I got to be in a Bond film, but 'Harry Potter', too? Well, I think I qualify for a medal for exceptional parenting or something, don'...
The danger of motherhood. you relive your early self, through the eyes of your mother.
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.
I guess you just have to trust your kids, trust that their innate interest in life will win out in the end, don’t you think?
But no one is easier to delude than a parent; they see only what they wish to see.
Ask your child for information in a gentle, nonjudgmental way, with specific, clear questions. Instead of How was your day? try What did you do in math class today? Instead of Do you like your teacher...
As Plato: What is play and delightful one kind of child is coercion and torture for another, and will not take no matter how much coercion is applied.
The biggest test for parents is not how they parent, but how the respond to disorder and unpredictability.
Real Fathers are Solution Providers and not a part of the problem to be solved.