People say that when a baby is crying the paternal grandmother will say, “The baby is crying, you should feed her,” and the maternal grandmother will say, “Why is that baby crying so much, making...

She felt a lump form in her throat, and she swallowed hard. She wouldn’t have this-the swollen ankles and pink cheeks and the feel of that glorious, curving belly under the palm of her hand-but...

If your child is constantly interrupting or doing other things to get your attention, he is not getting enough communication of the right kind. Just the fact that you are in the house with him...

I admonish Your Majesty, as the woman who gave you life and loves you like no other, to behave always in a manner that safeguards your immortal soul. Seek God’s glory in the Holy Land...

Once upon a time, I used to have a little girl.

The Mother of God is asked to ‘pray zealously to her Son and her God,’ and the words of the psalm are put into her mouth:’My soul doth magnify the Lord, and my spirit hath...

We watched each other evolve into parents, with all the fear, rage and confusion evolution can involve. Our eight-year-old is the incarnation of our union; we are forever fused by her blood. My old take...

I’ve been melted into somethingtoo easy to spill. I make moreand more of myself in orderto make more and more of the baby. He takes it, this making. And somehowhe’s made more of me, too.

The most difficult part of being a mother was to observe the mistakes of one’s children: the foolish loves, the desperate solitude and alienation, the lack of will, the gullibility, the joyous and naive leaps...

If an imaginative boy has a sufficiently rich mother who has intelligence, personal grace, dignity of character without harshness, and a cultivated sense of the best art of her time to enable her to make...

You are the greatest thing I ever did in my life!

Goodbye, Room.” I wave up at Skylight. “Say goodbye,” I tell Ma. “Goodbye, Room.”Ma says it but on mute.I look back one more time. It’s like a crater, a hole where something happened. Then we...

As if new motherhood isn’t hard enough, you begin the hardest and most challenging weeks of your life physically and emotionally exhausted. Even if you manage to leave the hospital without physical scars or emotional...

And it occurs to me that maybe the reason my mother was so exhausted all the time wasn’t because she was doing so much but because she was feeling so much.

My heart filled with Nick’s smile, with the look of sheer adoration he gave me as he lugged the bucket. In the space of an instant, I felt it again—the crumbling of an old part...

Maybe mothers – consciously or subconsciously – repelled their daughters in different ways.

Progress is hardly ever dramatic; in fact, it is usually very slow. As every parent and teacher knows, education is never a matter of ten-step plans or quick formulas, but of faithful commitment to the...

As a mother I see the future in the present. Every little thing she does or says makes me form a hypothesis of how she will see life and treat others in 20 years. So...

The only thing Jess really cared about were those two children and letting them know they were okay. Because even if the whole world was throwing rocks at you, if you had your mother at...

Become a parent. Lose your autonomy, but gain the wondrous superpower of The Magic Kiss that instantly dries tears and makes the pain of boo-boos disappear.

Mothers are the ultimate executives. Instead of raising profits they are raising humanity.

She caught herself working so hard at mothering that she forgot to enjoy her children. -from ~Homecoming Season~

…there is the sheer emotional, intellectual, physical, chemical pleasure of your children. The honest truth is that the world holds no greater gratification than lying in bed with your children, putting your leg on top...

being a good mother does not mean being perfect every single moment. we screw up. we get mad, we drink too much, eat too much, yell too much. a good mother learns from her mistakes...

A loving mother makes sacrifices for peace and laughter to reign in her home and family.

I was in charge. Of it all. All the time. For ever.

Look Beyond Motherhood and Parenting; Focus on the uniqueness of every Child.

I never found myself alone, because of my mother.

Families that feel together, heal together.

I was suppose to write a book about being a mom, to organize my thoughts into chapters and figure out a structure to hang them on, to make a lasting point, but somehow I decided...

Your power as a woman, as a mother, is your medicine, and it saved you. Take your courage in that.

She knew better than to waste that time. There isn’t always someone who wants you singing to him or nibbling his ear or brushing his cheek with a dandelion blossom. Somebody who knows when you’re...

What kind of choice is it, really, when motherhood forces you into a delicate balancing act — not just between work and family, as the equation is typically phrased, but between your premotherhood and postmotherhood...

It’s the curse of motherhood. You’re required to love us even when we vex you.

There’s in a miss and in a Mrs.A difference that no one ought to missFor their bodies and hearts are scripts apartTheir journeys and worries are each a loneI’ll speak for the Mrs. since me...

Mothers give us life, love, and the heartfelt inclination to cry, ‘I want my mommy,’ no matter how old we get.

So I guess you were hopelessly romantic and easily distracted, a B-plus mother, certainly good enough to get into Matriarchal State University but not quite good enough for St. Mary’s College of the Blessed Womb...

In much the same way, motherhood has become the essential female experience, valued above all others: giving life is where it’s at. “Pro-maternity” propaganda has rarely been so extreme. They must be joking, the modern...

If you have three or four –or more – chickabiddies, you’re dancing on a hot griddle all the time. You don’t have time to think about anything else. And if you’ve only got one or...

Why had no one told me that my body would become a battlefield, a sacrifice, a test? Why did I not know that birth is the pinnacle where women discover the courage to become mothers?...

One thing is certain: When the time has come, nothing which is man made will subsist. One day, all human accomplishments will be reduced to a pile of ashes. But every single child to whom...

And now the bad Mommy was here – outside his window. With a little whimper, he ran back to the bed, jumped in, and pulled the covers over his head.Good Mommy was gone now…and bad...

Breastfeeding is a beautiful thing, one of the most beautiful things that exist in nature. Think about how a woman can literally feed her baby with her body! In my eyes, this is a certain...

Reflection can be painful, but reflection can also be productive.

Motherhood furnishes us with, not just giving life — but, partaking of life’s learning.

I know less than you thought, but more than you realize.

snips and snails and puppydog tails.

Had I catalogued the downsides of parenthood, “son might turn out to be a killer” would never have turned up on the list. Rather, it might have looked something like this:1. Hassle.2. Less time just...

There are things that mothers can manage best when they do their duty.

(24/7) once you sign on to be a mother, that’s the only shift they offer.