Therefore, the idle parent who wants to stop the whining needs to stop whining himself, and one way is to resist the call to work ever longer and harder hours. Throw your BlackBerry into the...

Sacrifice was nine tenths of parenting.

I would have stayed forever within the garden of Re-mose’s childhood, but time is a mother’s enemy.

The worst attitude of all would be the professional attitude with regards children in the raw as a sort of raw material which we must handle.

My husband says this longing for isolation is not a good quality, that if I wanted to be a hermit I should have moved to the West Coast and adopted a lot of cats, not...

To look deep into your child’s eyes and see in him both yourself and something utterly strange, and then to develop a zealous attachment to every aspect of him, is to achieve parenthood’s self-regarding, yet...

Teach them what you love to do in life. It really doesn’t matter what it is. It never does. Just show them how important a passion is . . .

I won’t do that when I’m a parent. I’ll make different mistakes, of course.

That’s a parents’ job, isn’t it? To raise a child strong enough to leave and break our hearts?

Many parents have experienced the fact that kids don’t seem to honor their parents the way that previous generations of children did. The question we need to ask is, how did we get to this...

Do we not see the influence we have when we say we believe in one thing, but our children see us living something else? Do we not realize how little we encourage our children to...

A mother’s love is like an everlasting bed of roses, that continues to blossom. A mother’s love bears strength, comfort, healing and warmth. Her beauty is compared to a sunny day that shines upon each...

Non-alcoholic ways in which parents may not ‘be there’ for the children can include: – violence and sexual abuse – workholism – gambling – transquilliser addiction- – womanizing – frequent journeys abroad – death- suicide-...

Leave your pride, ego, and narcissism somewhere else. Reactions from those parts of you will reinforce your children’s most primitive fears.

Hey, maybe instead of going to college, you should drop out and I could quit my job and we can form an all-girl band with Lane, you know, like Bananarama. We could call it Tangerinarama...

I’m also discovering that while they seem to believe that I do not require sleep, my husband (who also doubles as their father) has the ability to morph into an invisible and supremely evasive nocturnal...

Adults constantly raise the bar on smart children, precisely because they’re able to handle it. The children get overwhelmed by the tasks in front of them and gradually lose the sort of openness and sense...

When we aren’t curious in conversations we judge, tell, blame and even shame, often without even knowing it, which leads to conflict.” -The Power Of Curiosity: How To Have Real Conversations That Create Collaboration, Innovation...

Something must have happened, your mother speculated. In her mind a woman with no child could only be explained by vast untrammeled calamity. Maybe she just doesn’t like children.Nobody likes children, Yunior, your mother assured...

It must be this overarching commitment to what is really an abstraction, to one’s children right or wrong, that can be even more fierce than the commitment to them as explicit, difficult people, and that...

Her mother was Jewish, but her father had insisted that she and Anne be raised Catholic. So she went to mass every Sunday as a child, received communion, went to confession, and was confirmed, but...

Come in early, so there’ll be time to pop corn,’ Mrs. Ray said. If she mentioned popping corn, they always came in early. So she usually mentioned it.

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

What we are most passionate about becomes our legacy.

For Parents: Never blame or scold a child for their first mistake after all family is the first school from where a child learns.

The life of a mother is the life of a child: you are two blossoms on a single branch.

Thank you very much,” Scottie said, and for some reason, the fact that I didn’t get this made me feel completely besieged. It’s crazy how much fathers are supposed to know these days. I come...

Anybody out there who is a parent, if your kids want to paint their bedrooms,as a favor to me, let them do it. It’ll be OK.

A successful father is not more successful than his children.

Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.” – Bell Hooks

Don’t leave your elders as Fallen Leaves.

The world is in a mad dash of personal peace and affluence. Sadly, too often the evangelical church is not much different. Of course, we want our children to become Christians. But that is just...

Children, who have so much to learn in so short a time, had involved the tendency to trust adults to instruct them in the collective knowledge of our species, and this trust confers survival value....

We rarely improve our habits and traits while floating on the placid pool of ease and comfort.

It is not what you leave to your children that matters, but what you leave in them.

Each suburban wife struggles with it alone. As she made the beds, shopped for groceries, matched slipcover material, ate peanut butter sandwiches with her children, chauffeured Cub Scouts and Brownies, lay beside her husband at...

Adults need to teach the children they love about sexual abuse so they know what to do if they encounter it. We need to prepare them so they know who to tell, should a violation...

You lose a child and you do understand each other’s grief at first, but if you get out of step with each other, it’s all over. Suddenly each of you is alone.

Once when I was young-maybe more than once-when I was extremely disrespectful to my mother, my father angrily called me “garbage” in our native Hokkien dialect. It worked really well. I felt terrible and deeply...

In automobile terms, the child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.

When our feet talk to us, we listen.

We ignore the emotional needs of young children at our peril.

You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.

As parents we’re meant to help each other out and build each other up.

When your spouse is talking; turn off the television. When your child is talking turn off the world.

…The life of the parents is the only thing that makes good children. Parents should be very patient and ‘saintlike’ to their children. They should truly love their children. And the children will share this...

For every hour a mother gets to herself, a father will demand five times that amount for drinking with friends and acting like an immature dipshit.

Now let’s make Virginia Heffernan a man. Can you imagine the same kind of spittle-flecked rage directed at a busy working father who admits to feeding his kids Annie’s Organic Mac & Cheese?

While you may be able to keep your son Jimmy from owning [a gun], if you try to talk him out of wanting one, you are up against a pretty strong argument: You mean I...

The guys who fear becoming fathers don’t understand that fathering is not something perfect men do, but something that perfects the man. The end product of child raising is not the child, but the parent.