Define your mantras, your adages, and bear down repetitively -- over and over and over!
Guilt is unavoidable for mothers.
Kids are flat-out freaking hilarious if you are paying attention. Not just my kid, but every kid.
Don't ever let another man call your child daddy.
Praise your children openly, reprove them secretly.
When a child hits a child, we call it aggression.When a child hits an adult, we call it hostility.When an adult hits an adult, we call it assault.When an adult hits a child, we call it discipline.
If you've never been hated by your child, you've never been a parent.
Before I had kids, I always found it funny how people would talk about their children like they were the cutest things on the planet and how every little thing they did was endlessly fascinating. Now...
Good parents have good hearts to accommodate the little things that mean a lot to their children. Good parents have good hands to touch and shape the little things that mean a lot to the life of their...
Kids are a great analogy. You want your kids to grow up, and you don't want your kids to grow up. You want your kids to become independent of you, but it's also a parent's worst nightmare: That they w...
Home life's great, man. The kids are great, happy and healthy. I've reached this sort of wonderful precipice.
What feeling is so nice as a child's hand in yours? So small, so soft and warm, like a kitten huddling in the shelter of your clasp.
Until she had had children of her own she had not been able to contemplate the death of either of her parents; when the subject had arisen, in conversation or in her own imagining, she had said only:...
There is no such thing as reproduction, only acts of production.
The only power that can effect transformations of the order (of Jesus) is love. It remained for the 20th century to discover that locked within the atom is the energy of the sun itself. For this energ...
Faktum var att han inte kunde vara den sortens pappa längre. Den tiden var förbi. Det var som om Gud plötsligt skulle bestämma sig för att vara Gud igen flera kvadriljoner år efter att han skapat värl...
24/7) once you sign on to be a mother, that's the only shift they offer.
A dam doesn't try to reason with the water. Its main purpose is to hold it still for a while. When I lecture my kids I'm doing much the same thing. I'm not trying to necessarily reason with them, just...
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...
You rock a sobbing child without wondering if today's world is passing you by, because you know you hold tomorrow in your arms.