The process of grieving any loss is dependent upon your relationship to the person.

Whatever time mother goes to heaven, it is always too soon. Fortunately, she is forever.

Being a parent is apparently more than most men can handle. This is transparent to even the tiniest child.

She was my mother and she would not leave me. This I had simply accepted and expected. I had no more thanked her for it than i did the sun for shining on me.

If you want to see and feel magic first hand, read a book to your kid before bedtime. —Richard Due

I have a very steadfast tendency to parent myself, to monitor my development into the person I want to be. I’ve tried to keep the corruption minimal.

cranky.” And big, gulping sobs, or sad, unhappy young minds, in a tiny body should not occur in any community of civilization. Adulthood holds many an opportunity for such conditions. Childhood should not.

Given the reality of unintended parenthood and parental unhappiness, one would think that women and men who make the decision not to have children – who are deliberate and thoughtful about the choice to bring...

But Nita had always seen having a child as selfish. Why bring another soul into this world, she’d say, when there are so many out there that need our help?

Personally, I thin knees should be kept for the eight or ninth date, or the wedding day. As a nice surprise, you know? ‘Oh, my darling, you have knees! I never would have thought!

Don’t harness a child’s imagination, encourage it so it knows no bounds!

Without you there would be no me. I am everything reflected in your eyes. I am everything approved by your smile. I am everything born of your guidance. I am me only because of you.

Amid the joy of raising children will be some of the hardest work you’ll ever do.

I suddenly remember being very little and being embraced by my father. I would try to put my arms around my father’s waist, hug him back. I could never reach the whole way around the...

Alexander Hamilton Junior High School– SEMESTER REPORT — STUDENT: Joseph MargolisTEACHER: Janet HicksENGLISH: A, ARITHMETIC: A, SOCIAL STUDIES: A, SCIENCE: A, NEATNESS: A, PUNCTUALITY: A, PARTICIPATION: A, OBEDIENCE: DTeacher’s Comments:Joseph remains a challenging student. While...

One’s past can’t be erased, it can only be learned from, the child taught her.

Children act on the words they hear.May your words be gracious to the hearing of children.May your words inspire and challenge children to fulfill their true potential.

Live your life. Be happy as you can be, let go of the things that don’t matter, and fight.

Force is the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism.

I think that discipline is so much of an important part of being a parent. Because it’s very, very important to teach your children to take responsibility for their actions.

An obedient child learns from the example of an obedient parent.

Being a parent is like being a catcher. You gotta handle whatever is thrown your way.

Bea did not want a new mother. She’d hardly even seen the one she once had, except for glimpses out the window when her mother was climbing into a carriage to go off to a...

Your family will flourish when decisions are guided by the Lord—the head of your household.

When you’re a parent you find yourself looking at the unknown that is your child, trying to find a piece of yourself inside her, because sometimes that is what it takes to claim.

The parent is the child’s guide. This shepherding process helps a child to understand himself and the world in which he lives. The parent shepherds a child to assess himself and his responses. He shepherds...

Making the decision to have a child – it’s momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking outside your body

A parent who cannot provide the basic needs of two children, must not even bear one.

I love you beyond paint, beyond melodies, beyond words. And I hope you will always feel that, even when I’m not around to tell you so.

Keep those that influence you for the better close and never give them a reason to keep you far away.

The idea of freedom is complex and it is all-encompassing. It’s the idea that the economy must remain free of government persuasion. It’s the idea that the press must operate without government intrusion. And it’s...

The best way to encourage your children is to let them know you are praying for them.

Every parent, no matter how cultured or sophisticated, will one day succumb to a child’s pleas to visit Walt Disney World Resort.

Why isn’t there a commandment to “honor thy children” or at least one to “not abuse thy children”? The notion that we must honor our parents causes many people to bury their real feelings and...

It’s never too early to begin pointing your little ones’ souls heavenward.

Being a parent wasn’t just about bearing a child. It was about bearing witness to its life.

When there is no job related stress, you are more aware of your mate and children, if you are a parent.

Sometimes to be a good parent… You have to laugh when you want to be angry. You have to be angry when you want to laugh. And that is why good parenting is tough.

Two things we have no control:The family in which you were born it to and the name you were given at birth.

[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...

It takes a female to have a baby,It takes a woman to raise a child,It takes a mother to raise them correctly,It takes a warrior to show them how to change the world.

There is no greater love than a maker’s for the things she makes. Especially when they grow to be something she never imagined.

There is no substitute for your impassioned prayers on behalf of your children

If you’re being tormented by guilt or feelings of failure in this area, confess your thoughts to God, pray about it, put it in God’s hands, and then stand up and proclaim the truth!

I was the first face you saw when you were born, you were bald as my hair ran black. Now yours the last face I saw before I died, your hair ran black, as I...

The soul of a child is the loveliest flower that grows in the garden of God.

Dawn’s Spawn:Cause and EffectCriticizing the next generation reflects on us. We hold the power to carve out good citizens who will take over the planet and wrest control from us. Step up with your hammer...

My feelings towards it can only be paralleled by that of a doting parent towards an idiot child.

Children are lovable and adorable.

I don’t know if I’m a strict parent or a pushover.