. . Mrs. Lambchop sighed and shook her head. You're at the office all day, having fun, she said. You don't realize what I go through with the boys. They're very difficult.Kids are like that, Mr. Lambc...
A father is as much a verb as a mother.
A man who indulges in parenthood for the first time at the age of fifty-four deserves all he gets.
A stodgy parent is no fun at all. What a child wants and deserves is a parent who is SPARKY
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...
All those adorable towheaded kids in the promotional film are going to turn thirteen. Once a family member hits puberty, odds are that everybody is not going to have the same ideals. Unless everybody...
And have your mother put my head on a stake? Do you have any notion what that would do to my handsome good looks?
Anyone can make a baby, but it takes a man to be a father.
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...
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...
At least he kept trying to express himself, his real self, as motley and inchoate for now as the outfit he was wearing. And maybe that was part of the purpose of middle school: to give you something t...
Babies are soft. Anyone looking at them can see the tender, fragile skin and know it for the rose-leaf softness that invites a finger's touch. But when you live with them and love them, you feel the s...
Babies don't come with instruction booklets. You'd learn the same way we all do -- you'd read up on dinosaurs, you'd Google backhoes and skidders. And you don't need a penis to go buy a baseball glove...
Be a full person. Motherhood is a glorious gift, but do not define yourself solely by motherhood. Be a full person. Your child will benefit from that.
Being a mother is an attitude, not a biological relation.
But in her loneliness in the palace she learned to know him, they learned to know each other, and she discovered with great delight that one does not love one’s children just because they are one’s ch...
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.
But no one is easier to delude than a parent; they see only what they wish to see.
But she needs me more than she needs him and I guess being needed is almost as good as being loved. Maybe better.
But, Dad… She hesitated. It will mean raising me all over again. It means suffering through my childhood for a third time. No parent should be asked to do that.Sol managed a smile. No parent would ref...
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