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

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

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...

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

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

(Da) “Sorry, Son, what was that? I was too busy ignoring you.”(Later) “Sorry, Son, I missed that,” Ma said. “Ignoring you can be a full-time job.

Even if i’m setting myself up for failure, I think it’s worth trying to be a mother who delights in who her children are, in their knock-knock jokes and earnest questions. A mother who spends...

The partnership between nurses and families is based on mutual trust, and defining the boundaries and rules clearly will help everyone involved, especially your child.

Love your kids and just be there for them. You don’t have to eyeball their every moment or to orchestrate all their comings and goings. They know this. They know that’s too much. All they...

Parenting is something that happens mostly while you’re thinking of something else.

Gay people getting married is not a threat to the institution of marriage. You know what’s a threat to the institution of marriage? Infidelity is! Hate is! Unforgiveness is! Apathy is! Coldheartedness is! Fear is!...

I amazed myself, above all, with how well I was able to manage. Michel got to school on time, his teeth brushed and his clothes clean. More or less clean: I was less critical of...

Loving my son, building my son, touching my son, playing with my son, being with my son… these aren’t tasks that only super dads can perform. These are tasks that every dad should perform. Always....

The world talks to the mind. Parents speak more intimately; they talk to the heart.

As those of you with children know, rational parenting is like the Loch Ness Monster. We all hope it’s out there somewhere, but we don’t know anyone who has actually discovered it (and if we...

Babies are soft. Anyone looking at them can see the tender, fragile skin and know it for the rose-leaf softness that invites a finger’s touch. But when you live with them and love them, you...

The best security blanket a child can have is parents who respect each other.

This is my life’s work. It is a user’s manual to the human being, a parenting book … and how to be the best you can be.

To begin perfect happiness at the respective ages of twenty-six and eighteen, is to do pretty well; and professing myself moreover convinced, that the General’s unjust interference, so far from being really injurious to their...

It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows

My parents were nonmaterialistic. They believed that money without knowledge was worthless, that education tempered with religion was the way to climb out of poverty in America, and over the years they were proven right.

Instead of treating your child like how you were treated. Treat them with the same love and attention you wanted from your parents while growing up.

Replace a goal of obedience with one of connection and trust instead. Children are drawn to follow those to whom they are emotionally connected. By parenting not for obedience but for relationship, kids are naturally...

TV news is like kryptonite to children. The two major shifts in taste for children to adulthood are news and mustard. Kids hate news and mustard. Well, mustard even has the word ‘turd’ in it....

. . .you sounded frustrated and pissed off and amazingly happy

Parenting is really just a matter of tracking, of hoping your kids do not get so far ahead you can no longer see their next moves.

Teachable moments are any time that you use situations to dialogue with your child about what’s going on- what he or she has seen, heard, or done. As this passage from Deuteronomy (Deut. 6:6-7) describes,...

If you, as a parent, raise your children well, they won’t need you anymore. If you did it properly, they go away.

And if that’s the case — if we are our remembering selves — then it matters far less how we feel moment to moment with our children. They play rich and crucial roles in our...

A stodgy parent is no fun at all. What a child wants and deserves is a parent who is SPARKY

The health of your future kids does not start with their birth—it starts with you, right now, well before you plan to impregnate your wife.

When we start to realize how amazing God’s story is, a question naturally arises: “Who am I that I should get to be a part of the greatest story ever told?

We do children an enormous disservice when we assume that they cannot appreciate anything beyond drive through fare and nutritionally marginal, kid-targeted convenience foods. Our children are capable of consuming something that grew in a...

Don’t stand unmoving outside the door of a crying baby whose only desire is to touch you. Go to your baby. Go to your baby a million times. Demonstrate that people can be trusted, that...

As a young father it’s important to remember that, when you’re at the beach, there’s a BIG difference between telling your five year old son to just go pee in the ocean and telling him...

Journal writing is a wonderful pathway to self-awareness.

Just remember something, okay? And this is neither here nor there but it’s something I really want you to know. Not that I think you have much trouble with this, but let’s be clear: you...

I know what it feels like to miss everything about him–the way he smells, the way his mouth curls up when he laughs, his voice.

The instinct to tell our children that they are better than someone else’s children, based on nothing more than the color of their skin, is now a fossilized aberration that serves no useful purpose.

Adelaide believes that all children should have enough grown-ups around who love them so that one can tell them to fight, one can tell them not to, and one can tell them not to worry...

Who are you to want to escape a thug’s bullet? That’s only a personal prejudice!”Men would shudder, he thought, if they saw a mother bird plucking the feathers from the wings of her young, then...

There are really places in your heart that you don’t know exist until you love a child.

Menjadi panutan bukan tugas anak sulung-kepada adaik-adiknya, tapi tugas orang tua kepada semua anak

She brought a chair into the room and placed it alongside the top of his bed. Then she held his hand as he drifted off to sleep. It was so small in her own hand,...

When they’re little, and you go for years without a good night’s sleep, you wonder if they’ll ever make it through to morning without finding some reason to wake you up. But then one day...

We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.

Dads. Do you honestly expect anybody to believe that you can’t find 20 minutes to step away from your computer or turn off the television to play with your child? It has to happen every...

Little things spell LOVE. Beware the spouse or marriage that places a premium on expensive gifts and ‘toys.