Sometimes, kids want you to hurt the way they hurt.
Success for me its to raise happy, healthy human beings.
The truth is that parents are not really interested in justice. They just want quiet.
Even as kids reach adolescence, they need more than ever for us to watch over them. Adolescence is not about letting go. It's about hanging on during a very bumpy ride.
I had three children while doing a show, as demanding as 'Good Morning America,' so this is - you know, it's almost like I'm less daunted about motherhood, and parenting at this point in time. And I t...
My children are the reason I laugh, smile and want to get up every morning.
I take parenting incredibly seriously. I want to be there for my kids and help them navigate the world, and develop skills, emotional intelligence, to enjoy life, and I'm lucky to be able to do that a...
With children the clock is reset. We forget what came before
The more a family can be splintered apart, the weaker and more ineffectual they become, and the more the enemy has control of their lives. One way to avoid this is through prayer. When you cover your...
The lessons my parents taught are still with me. I keep a tighter leash when raising my kids than my parents did, but I often find myself doing or saying the same things they did. My mom, for instance...
The best way to guide children without coercion is to be ourselves.
Sadie, he said forlornly, when you become a parent, you may understand this. One of my hardest jobs as a father, one of my greatest duties, was to realize that my own dreams, my own goals and wishes,...
Pray that your children will develop a heart that seeks after God.
I wondered how long it took for a baby to become yours, for familiarity to set in. Maybe as long as it took a new car to lose that scent, or a brand-new house to gather dust. Maybe that was the proces...
Don't even think about it.Well, when I walk by myself?When you get your driver's license.You always, always say that. Dillie scowled at him. That's when happens.It's going to be a busy day, Phin agr...
Children's as good as 'rithmetic to set you findin' out things.
Adults constantly raise the bar on smart children, precisely because they're able to handle it. The children get overwhelmed by the tasks in front of them and gradually lose the sort of openness and s...
Real Fathers make a positive impact on their generation, and so give the next generation the advantage of a better nation to live in
Real Fathers are Solution Providers and not a part of the problem to be solved.
A recent study of three thousand New England high-school kids shows that students with B averages or better enjoyed seventeen to thirty-three minutes more sleep and went to bed ten to fifty minutes ea...