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...
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...
Define your mantras, your adages, and bear down repetitively -- over and over and over!
The world's major religions: Same boss, different departments.
I don't think each of us receives one harvest only--an after-death sort of payment for services rendered. I think we all get a lifetime full of little harvests--those small miracles that stand out fro...
My kid, her life. I want for her what she wants for herself.
Child give me your hand so that I may walk in the light of your faith in me.
Mothers - especially single mothers - are heroic in their efforts to raise our nation's children, but men must also take responsibility for their children and recognize the impact they have on their f...
Those books made it crystal clear that giving honey to your baby before he was a year old made you a terrible mother. The moment a spoon of honey would touch his lips, the words Awful Mother would app...
People worried too much about their children. Suffering when you're young is good for you. It immunized your body and soul...
Oh, go ahead and giggle, Lady Danbury sighed. I've found that the only way to avoid parental frustration is to view him as a source of amusement.
I would have given anything to keep her little. They outgrow us so much faster than we outgrow them.Brian Fitzgerald, talking about his children.
As his children, we were treated as some species of migrant workers who happened to be passing through. My father was the only person I ever knew who looked upon childhood as a dishonorable vocation o...
24/7) once you sign on to be a mother, that's the only shift they offer.
It's a fathers job to spoil his daughters shamelessly, it's their husbands job to tame them. Prince Zehava-The Dragon Prince
Unconditional parental love is the indespensible nutrient for the child's healthy emotional growth. The first task is to create space in the child's heart for the certainty that she is precisely the p...
Parents must try to be, or at least put forth their best efforts to be, what they wish [their] children to be. It is impossible for you to be an example of what you are not.
Kids are flat-out freaking hilarious if you are paying attention. Not just my kid, but every kid.