Sometimes our work as caregivers is not for the faint of heart. But, you will never know what you are made of until you step into the fire. Step bravely!

Her conclusion: “You just have to follow your own heart” when it comes to medical decision-making.

Dwight Eisenhower said that from the beginning, his mother and father operated on an assumption that set the course of his life – that the world could be fixed of its problems if every child...

The irreducible, ultimate element in religious faith is the insistence that we are created things; male and female He created them; without God we are nothing. And yet, when men and women have children and...

Children of God, Children of the light.

It’s a fathers job to spoil his daughters shamelessly, it’s their husbands job to tame them. Prince Zehava-The Dragon Prince

And they certainly wouldn’t take you along to a murder. That would be irresponsible parenting.

There is no single effort more radical in its potential for saving the world than a transformation of the way we raise our children.

Your typical Six-year-old is a paradoxical little person, and bipolarity is the name of his game.

Since we have had this baby with us, I have never again wondering why I never got pregnant. There is no doubt in my mind that God, in His wonderful way, was saving us to...

Adoption is the most intentional process on Earth.

Das mine!’ protested Ava, Bennie’s daughter, affirming Alex’s recent theory that language acquisition involved a phase of speaking German. She snatched a plastic skillet away from his own daughter, Cara-Ann, who lurched after it, roaring,...

we can learn to trust our maternal selves and to have faith in the innate goodness and purity of our children – even when we feel overwhelmed and the kids are pushing all our buttons....

Parenthood…It’s about guiding the next generation, and forgiving the last.

He welcomes the chance to do fatherly things with the little girl, and those ten morning minutes with dear little four-year-old Ruby, with her deep soulful eyes, and the wondrous things she sees with them,...

It’s impossible to protect your kids against disappointment in life.

Out of all the things I do, I think being a mom is the most important and satisfying.

Of course our most important role as a parent is to have our children know that they are loved and worthy. Even more importantly, it’s to help them discover, and fan the flames of whatever...

Having children is like living in a frat house – nobody sleeps, everything’s broken, and there’s a lot of throwing up.

I don’t understand why some kids git a good school and mother and father and some don’t. But Rita say forgit the WHY ME shit and git on to what’s next.

Successful teaching is not head-to-head; it is heart-to-heart.

The greatest source of security our children have in this world is a God-honoring, Christ-centered marriage between their parents.

What is called family pride is often founded on the illusion of self-love. A man wishes to perpetuate and immortalize himself.

I was just four when a hired teenage field hand attempted to molest me. Miraculously, I got away, and I told my dad. My father made three important choices that day: He listened to me,...

We must imbue our children with principles of the higher-self, principles which see all people as true equals, and above all, which are sensitive to the delicate and fragile balance of life.

I’ve realised now that the reality of children is you have to be in the right place with the right person.

Parenting the outside of the child is as useless as polishing a rotten apple.

Oh my God! Why do we do that? What does it mean?” The auditorium erupted in some kind of crazy parent revival. As I had suspected, I was not alone.

Time grants a unique perspective which allows us to see events through a filter of accumulated wisdom.

We can only afford two children’ really means, ‘We only like clean, well-disciplined middle-class children who go to good schools and grow up to be professionals’, for children manage to use up all the capital...

most ridiculous thing they ever could have done”? Do you really believe that your child is an idiot? Because she now does. Think about that. Because you said it, she now believes it. Bravo.

Do not let the endless succession of small things crowd great ideals out of sight and out of mind.

By loving them for more than their abilities we show our children that they are much more than the sum of their accomplishments.

The Lord teaches us of His grace and the Gospel through difficult children. We learn what it’s like to love like He loved. It is there, in our personal upper room, where we learn to...

Father, I am from a different egg than your other children. Think of me as a duckling raised by hens. I am not a domestic bird destined to spend his life in a chicken coop....

Being a parent is a gift, one which most men unselfishly allow women to keep all to themselves.

We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves.

Thus far we have been able to protect [our children] from the deep and enduring traumas that scar the minds and selves of so many of the patients I see. How — how?—can I make...

that a child is not an event, alleged or otherwise, a mistake or accident or crime. . . he is by definition more than this, sum rather than division, a living promissory note.

You can’t cling to the side your whole life, that one lesson every parent needs to teach a child is “If you don’t want to sink, you better figure out how to swim

Even though you can’t control outcomes for your child, you can parent unconditionally with all your heart.

I do not know many people who think they have succeeded as parents. Those who do tend to cite the markers that indicate (their own) status in the world: the Stanford degree….Those of us less...

Uselessness, she thought, was the permanent condition of parenthood.

I wondered how long it took for a baby to become yours, for familiarity to set in. Maybe as long as it took a new car to lose that scent, or a brand-new house to...

… People with great passions, people who accomplish great deeds, people who possess strong feelings, even people with great minds and a strong personality, rarely come out of good little boys and girls.

Exactly what are you wanting to teach your children? -How to love and care for themselves, or how to neglect and abandon themselves? Self-sarifice is NOT setting a good example.

Consistency also teaches us that some things do not change, though we may wish they would. Not everything bends to our personal preferences.

You are mine for a moment, but you are His, forever His.

Parents who discipline their child by discussing the consequences of their actions produce children who have better moral development , compared to children whose parents use authoritarian methods and punishment.

Don’t try to make children grow up to be like you, or they may do it.