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.

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.

I’m not a role model. I say parents should parent and monitor their kids.

Can-do” is the parent of “Have-done”. No passion, no production!

Defining yourself in terms of how you rank is always dangerous and ultimately immature. It doesn’t matter whether the rank has to do with your grades, your weight or where you finished in the 800...

Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children’s strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms even...

No role brings greater joy or blessing than being a parent.

I tell young people that people aren’t just going to flock to you as your mentors. You have to seek them out. It could be your next-door neighbor; it could be somebody upstairs from you,...

Being a parent is too complicated and emotional a task for magical techniques and miracle cures.

A god who gave us everything we wanted would be the most malevolent god of all. With an infantile curiosity, we insist on tasting the cockroach on the floor while our father is preparing a...

A good editor can make a respectable writer remarkable, just like a good parent helps a child become amazing.

I realized today that a daughter is born twice. For nine months, a mother carries and nourishes her daughter in her stomach, then gives birth to her. It’s a happy occasion, but the mother is...

My children taught me the true meaning of unconditional love.

A parent gives life, but as parent, gives no more. A murderer takes life, but his deed stops there. A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

In the jumbled, fragmented memories I carry from my childhood there are probably nearly as many dreams as images from waking life. I thought of one which might have been my earliest remembered nightmare. I...

We’re not mad,” he began, meaning he was. He was always a plural when mad, as though grammatically throwing his lot in with her mother gave him the power of her authority.

An exhausted parent can’t provide the best care, although occasionally, we have all had to do so.

If you believe that your needs were met because you prayed, then you make God the parent who reacts only when the baby cries. Matthew 6:25-34.

When a child reaches puberty, parents become so curious about their sex lives and whereabouts, put them behind bars to their own detriment. When such a child breaks free, don’t be surprised to see him/her...

Scorned and torn, former love mates aim and shoot childish devastating daggers that penetrate beyond target to pierce the heart of their offspring.

Isn’t a kid alive who doesn’t dream about rewarding her folks, or punishing them.

The birth of a child is a joy to the parent and the world.

Now that I have kids, I’m probably more overprotective than I’ve ever been. My wife’s nickname for me is ‘red alert.’ I sometimes check just to see if the kids are breathing. But I try...

Often people ask, “How can you say you’re blessed to have a son with Down syndrome?” My outlook on life has forever changed. I see my own challenges differently. He’s always showing me that life...

I think there comes a point in probably most father-son relationships where the son kind of starts becoming the parent.

MotherHushed and sacred silencefills the dawning skyI ponder in this momentof our journey which is nigh…

They had perfected their team nagging to a level where they no longer had to confer and felt they would be wasting their talents if they only admonished their own children.

KIDS. They know a BRIBE when they see one. They want a PARENT, not a PAY-OFF. They don’t care if you’re Jack-King-Rodeo or Mister-You-Own-New-York. All they understand is time spent WITH YOU or WITHOUT YOU....

It is a parent’s responsibility to preserve the connection with their children, to preserve the relationship, so that the children can let go and become their own selves.

As a parent, I have a job as a role model to my children, and by extension, to other young people.