Why children?' he asked. 'Why always children? For love to end where it begins is far more beautiful, and Nature knows it.
With children the clock is reset. We forget what came before
Without the support from religion--remember, we talked about it--no father, using only his own resources, would be able to bring up a child.
You are born into a family and those are your people, and they know you and they love you, and if you are lucky they even on occasion manage to understand you. And that ought to be enough. But it is n...
You can write great books, the great man continued. Or you can have kids. It's up to you.[...]Writing was a practice. The more you wrote, the better a writer you became, and the more books you produce...
You can't predict the outcome. You can't raise a child and then tell them what to think.
You could slap his wrist for saying it, but then he said it with his face, and you could spank him for making faces, but then he said it with his eyes, and there were limits to correction—no way, in t...
You have to talk to your children about things, a lot of our parents don’t do that. You have to explain things to children as to why certain things happen. I think that a good way of improving compreh...
Your father, Jo. He never loses patience, never doubts or complains, but always hopes, and works and waits so cheerfully that one is ashamed to do otherwise before him. He helped and comforted me, and...
Your son is heir to an enormous fortune and name. Someone would be bound to bid for you him and take him as his ward.
[My dad] didn't do much apart from the traditional winning of bread. He didn't take me to get my hair cut or my teeth cleaned; he didn't make the appointments. He didn't shop for my clothes. He didn't...
[P]arents need to step back from their own preferences and see what the world looks like to their quiet children.
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