As a father, we need to actively listen.

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

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 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.

Until we accept that our children have much more of a risk of being sexually abused than drowning in a pool, being struck by a car, stricken with cancer, hurt by a vaccination, or diagnosed...

Imagine, pretend, and play so you can become anyone you want to be. You don’t need to be afraid.

Much of life, fatherhood included, is the story of knowledge acquired too late: if only I’d known then what I know now, how much smarter, abler, stronger, I would have been. But nothing really prepares...

It is a violation of trust to use your kids as caulking for the cracks in you.

You don’t gain authority by raising your voice. You prove you don’t have any.

what I want you to be – I don’t mean physically but morally: you are very well physically – is a firm fellow, a fine firm fellow, with a will of your own, with resolution....

Putting down the power right from the whistle would be ugly and brutal, but it would get the job done. He wanted to tell her that, but this was the thing with coaching: you had...

A housewife’s work has no results: it simply has to be done again. Bringing up children is not a real occupation, because children come up just the same, brought up or not.

Raising kids is part joy and part guerilla warfare.

The best parenting strives to educate children in how to live — enthusiastically, compassionately, without greed, striving for a better world.

Child give me your hand so that I may walk in the light of your faith in me.

children need love most when they don’t deserve it

One of pleasures of parenting, future reader: parent can positively influence kid, make moment kid will remember for rest of life, moment that alters his/her trajectory, opens up his/her heart + mind.

He thought about the story his daughter was living and the role she was playing inside that story. He realized he hadn’t provided a better role for his daughter. He hadn’t mapped out a story...

Children do not experience our intentions, no matter how heartfelt. They experience what we manifest in tone and behavior.

Do not expect too much from your child and she will grow in your love… But if you push her too much, you will push her away. A child is not yours to own but...

single” about a single mom.

We want our children to have a childhood that’s magical and enriched, but I’ll bet that your best childhood memories involve something you were thrilled to do by yourself. These are childhood’s magic words: “I...

Leah: I want those gubs Mommy.Kate: They’re not ‘gubs’ they’re ‘gloves’Aaden and Leah try and say glovesLeah: Gloves!Kate: Good job!Aaden: Gubs!Kate: No

You will attach to me as long as I meet your needs.

I feel like I’ve lived numerous lives…and you can explore my incarnations through my works.

He was afraid to pick up the baby. If he touched it, it might bond with him or something. Or he might leave fingerprints all over it.

Blame or credit, does not belong to the child alone. Parents, those who raised the child, must be given equal credit, or blame. That does not change, when the child is one, twenty or ninety...

too much alcohol hampers people’s ability to parent. That’s why I’ve chosen to remain childless.

Once upon a time, all children were homeschooled. They were not sent away from home each day to a place just for children but lived, learned, worked, and played in the real world, alongside adults...

As his children, we were treated as some species of migrant workers who happened to be passing through. My father was the only person I ever knew who looked upon childhood as a dishonorable vocation...

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

The more a family can be splintered apart, the weaker and more ineffectual they become, and the more the enemy has control of their lives. One way to avoid this is through prayer. When you...

A father has to be a provider, a teacher, a role model, but most importantly, a distant authority figure who can never be pleased. Otherwise, how will children ever understand the concept of God?

Two weeks ago, Aaron and Isaac, I learned your mother Laura has breast cancer. My heart feels impaled. These words, so useless and feeble. Laura is only thirty-five years old. Her next birthday will be...

The best gift you can give to your kids is a happy marriage.

A virtue is a habit that includes all of these things: actions (you take care of your child even when you don’t feel like it), emotions (you are often overtaken by feelings of tenderness and...

Love with your whole heart, and never be sorry you did.–tdf

Even before i had children, I knew that being a parent was going to be challenging as well as rewarding. But I didn’t really know.I didn’t know how exhausted it was possible to become, or...

Games where someone wants to touch your body where your swimsuit covers or they ask you to touch their body where their swimsuit covers. Those body parts are private. No one is allowed to touch...

One reason we have children I think is to learn that parts of ourselves we had given up for dead are merely dormant and that the old joys can re emerge fresh and new and...

New Rule: Don’t name your kid after a ballpark. Cubs fans Paul and Teri Fields have named their newborn son Wrigley. Wrigley Fields. A child is supposed to be an independent individual, not a means...

Embrace your beautiful mess of a life with your child. No matter how hard it gets, do not disengage… Do something—anything—to connect with and guide your child today. Parenting is an adventure of the greatest...

Caring about the welfare of children and shaming parents are mutually exclusive endeavors.