We don’t get to choose our blood families, but we do get to decide how to talk to them, how much to tell them, and how open to be with them about the core of...

That’s right”, she says, wiping tears from her cheeks. “You weren’t with me that time I walked in on them doing the deed. Seriously Freudian horror.””You saw your parents at the best,” Mom murmurs, before...

Os homens têm experiência de séculos a mais que as mulheres em: malsentir, antever e precaver. Quando levadas ao mundo do trabalho “masculino”, as mulheres aceleram seu desenvolvimento nessa mesma direção e, dessa forma, as...

You’ll forget your inner peace, forget that it comes from impermanence. From knowing that everything will break. And only reason can right you.

Mwalimu Julius Kambarage Nyerere alikuwa baba kwa familia yake. Kwa Tanzania alikuwa mlezi; wa ndoto ya haki, amani, uzalendo, ujamaa, na uhuru.

It is possible the world is divided into three genders – there are men, there are women and then there are women who choose to have nothing to do with children. How about men without...

My schooling not only failed to teach me what it professed to be teaching, but prevented me from being educated to an extent which infuriates me when I think of all I might have learned...

Granma’s name was Bonnie Bee. I knew that when I heard him late at night say, ‘I kin ye, Bonnie Bee,’ he was saying, ‘I love ye,’ for the feeling was in the words.

Come on. We must have a little pity. Do you know what we’re talking about now?…When a man supports his relatives by his labor, he has no right to sacrifice himself. That is deserting his...

Perhaps that’s a smile on Delia’s face-but Delia’s half skull turns every expression into a leer. She says, “Your uncle had a talent, kid. He made families wherever he went.

Maybe it’s just a daughter’s job to piss off her mother.

My mother was, for the most part, delighted with my brother and regarded him with the bemused curiosity of a brood hen discovering she has hatched a completely different species. ‘I think it was very...

You, you insolent brazen bitch—you really dare to shake that monstrous spear in Father’s face?

I want to bill Billings one penny at a time.” He died with five cents to his name. I was named after him—fifty years after him.

Was that really all there was to love? Darkness undone, a hand on your forehead. In the meantime all you could do was wait–tired, alone, the minutes as long or short as a lifetime–for the...

Power & Money are fruits of life! But Family &Friends re roots of life! We can manage without fruits, But can never stand without roots.

Author challenges parents to bridge the gap with maturing, more independent kids with what he calls “Knock and Pray”. He says parents should invite their kids to unscheduled times to “pray… big”.

My niece just turned one. I gave her a birthday card that read, “If you can read this, Happy Birthday!

It’s so easy to focus on the anguish and the misery; it’s harder, somehow, to acknowledge the positive, maybe for fear of jinxing it, bringing the nightmare back down on our heads.

It’s not that parents love their children less than in generations past. It’s that they no longer receive consistent societal support for the belief that parenting is their highest priority…TV messages championed rather then detracted...

I had a great view of the sunset. At least until father went and changed the channel. Dammit, dad!

Meow.

Last weekend I went out of my comfort zone to go hang out with people I’d only heard about, and I met one new person who turned out to be a very valuable contact. I...

My ashtray is full, the carton of cigarettes is empty, and I just cremated grandpa. But I never inhaled—or told him I loved him.

I liked having some time to myself. Our family was such a close one, you could get smothered. Of course, we didn’t always agree with one another. Sometimes I quarreled with my brother and sisters,...

I have to put in all this time to make up for the vacation we’re going to take this summer.” I bet if I asked your kids, they’d say that they’d rather have you home...

work at our responsibility as parents as if everything in life counted on it, because in fact everything in life does count on it.

Kau lahir penuh harapan dan kau memberiku sedikit harapan itu.

You don’t build a family by tearing down another one.

I don’t know. I know only that in your own way, you inspire us.

If personal romantic and sexual behavior ends up being public, affecting public institutions and taxpayer funds, it’s fair and reasonable to debate the issue, right?Not according to many who favor alternate lifestyles. They would rather...

A bolt of warmth, fierce with joy and pride and gratitude, flashed through me like sudden lightning. I don’t care about whose DNA has recombined with whose. When everything goes to hell, the people who...

Dirty or clean, crumpled or finely creased, you are still priceless to those who Love you.

Winner: Getting up more times than life knocks you down

To plant a family! This idea is at the bottom of most of the wrong and mischief which men do. The truth is, that, once in every half century, at longest, a family should be...

You need to make time for your family no matter what happens in your life

He is deemed an inappropriate guardian, whereas my parents who neglected us every day of our waking lives were always deemed appropriate guardians on account of the DNA issue. No one wants to separate children...

I always hear people talk about ‘dysfunctional families.’ It annoys me, because it makes you think that somewhere there’s this magical family where everyone gets along, and no one ever screams things they don’t mean,...

How can I not believe that there is a God who exists and loves, when the people before me are infused with that love and pour it out daily?

I may not always be with you But when we’re far apartRemember you will be with meRight inside my heart

I know that in the end, God will forgive me. He will forgive your father, me, and you too. I hope you can do the same. Forgive your father if you can. Forgive me if...

I was sick of the body count that existed around my family. It seemed statistically that eventually the body count would include my family.

It is not until much later, as the skin sags and the heart weakens, that children understand; their stories, and all their accomplishments, sit atop the stories of their mothers and fathers, stones upon stones,...

TV families and your own are hard to tell apart, except your isn’t interrupted every six minutes by commercials and theirs don’t get bogged down into nothingness, a state where nothing happens, no skit, no...

Ka found it very soothing: for the first time in years, he felt part of a family. In spite of the trials and responsibilities of what was called ‘family’, he saw now the joys of...

The man’s rights and the woman’s rights are the same size. They have the right to have their opinions and desires respected, to have a 50 percent say in decision making, to live free from...

Bean sighed inwardly. It never failed. Whenever he had any conversation with Ender, it turned into an argument.

Family. It was just a word…Could see its letters all strung together. But it was a symbol, too. And people thought they knew what it meant…It was a thing everyone had an opinion about—that it...

After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one’s own relations.

We men have always fought to protect others… since the ancient times. Even though we were naked, and only had sticks and stones to defend ourselves… we still had the elderly, the young, our wives,...