In short, with each of the thousand-and-one problems that present themselves in family life, our choice is between controlling and teaching, between creating an atmosphere of distrust and one of trust, between setting an example...

No child ever became ‘good’ by being told that she or he was bad or by beating her/him.

Do not raise your children the way your parents raised you; they were born for a different time.

Too bad for any parent who has become accustomed to ruling by force, because at some point the kids just get too big to slap around.

I would rather my descendants have greater abilities and a greater knowledge of the love of Christ than I do, much like standing on one’s shoulders in order to get a clearer view of the...

As a father, we need to actively listen.

Expect to change yourself in order to change your life experience.

As an individual, you are entitled to your time of grief, process of grief, and right to grieve.

Spanking a child is about the parent not the child. The child will learn more from positive correction than physical manipulation.

Whatever I haven’t accomplished biologically obviously wasn’t all that imperative.

A yummy mummy is a dedicated and loving mom who embodies a healthy lifestyle while retaining a sense of the person she was before having kids.

Sometimes Eli believed his mother was embarrassed by him. “I swear, my mom thinks if I do one thing differently than the average person, I’m weird,” Eli said later. “It’s like she thinks I’m a...

Education is only the most fully conscious of the channels whereby each generation influences the next.

Unfortunately, we spend more time teaching our daughters how to avoid becoming rape victims than teaching our sons not to become rapists.

Why would a vampire create a younger vampire if there was a possibility the young one might end up destroying the old one?’Stephin stared. ‘If you can explain to me how this is different from...

I want to remember warming your two a.m. bottle, clipping your locks, watching you be baptized, bathing you in the big porcelain sink… how I often laid you against my chest and felt the cradlesong...

I raised my three teens with love, perseverance, tenacity, sweat, tears, prayers, lighting candles, and the list could go on.

With toddlers around, times are always interesting.

It matters to ourselves, of course, but it matters terribly to other people. Moral failure or spiritual failure or whatever you call it, makes such a vicious circle… It seems as if when we love...

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.

A child may be “spoiled” by a lack of training or by inappropriate love that gives or trains incorrectly.

To those of you who are yet to plunge into the zygote pool and want to know what both plumbless horror and pure love feels like, have yourself a baby…

It could not have been easy for Mother, an only child, to grow up without a father and with a mother who was remote. Photos of her as a child show her extremely dressed up...

I will chum with you, and suffer when you suffer, and laugh when you laugh. I will bite my tongue when impatient words come. I will keep saying as if it were a ritual: “He...

Like I tell our kids, ‘Your Mom isn’t always right and I’m not always right. But together, WE’RE ALWAYS right!

Families that feel together, heal together.

Greatness, whether athletic or otherwise, doesn’t come from those content on just being but from those who seek being the difference.

Parenting, similar to aging, is not for the faint of heart. It is a sacred journey, filled with learning experiences for both parties, not all of which are easy. This journey requires that we are...

The ability to extend kindness requires an other-awareness. We are apt to miss the needs of those around us if we remain self-focused. Helping children to see the needs of others will bless them with...

I’ve tried to teach what I learned all those years in my mother and father’s house, all those things I didn’t realize I was learning and that I never knew I’d be so grateful for....

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 showed me...

I hope someday she meets just the right man and has babies – a whole passel of babies, more than I could have – so she understands how it kills me now that she won’t...

Me,” I said.

Whenever my children complain about the planet to me, I say ‘Shut up, I just got here myself’.

If parents had children who were good sleepers, they assumed this was due to their good parenting, not good luck. They followed the rules, and the rules had been proven to work. Celeste must therefore...

Oh, yeah. That’s Scottie. She’s a riot.

If you raise a daughter to be both independent and an excellent marksman, you have to accept the fact that your control over her actions is at an end.

If you want kids, choose your girlfriend like your future child has the deciding vote.

A Christian understanding of the world sees a child’s character not as genetically determined but as shaped to a significant degree by parental discipleship and discipline.

The most insidious of the premature responsibilities that may be foisted onto some children is the expectation that the child is somehow supposed to take care of his parents, rather than the other way around....

I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren’t trying to teach us. We are formed by little scraps of wisdom.

So often, children are punished for being human. Children are not allowed to have grumpy moods, bad days, disrespectful tones, or bad attitudes, yet we adults have them all the time! We think if we...

We seem to need the motivation of pain or discomfort to drive us from our current manner of thinking and being to a higher level of reality.

Since taking are of one small baby is the hardest job on earth, I am constantly late, as I am today.

But she needs me more than she needs him and I guess being needed is almost as good as being loved. Maybe better.

The only secrets that are good are the ones with an ending. Keep surprises instead of secrets in your home.

A person can’t pick up they children and just squeeze them to which-a-way they wants them to be.

Extra credit is not extra. It’s just credit. It’s what separates the good students from the bad students.””Aww – recess is so fun,” Lulu offered as her final sally. But after that, Lulu, like Sophia....

It’s hard to look at it like that, isn’t it? Because if you can be a better parent than the ones you had, you have to face the fact that your parents had that choice...

Who we are and how we engage with the world are much stronger predictors of how our children will do than what we know about parenting. In terms of teaching our children to dare greatly...