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.

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...

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...

we (modern society) make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst. We castrate and bid the geldings be fruitful.

What is certain is that he [the baby] has too much attention from the one person who is entirely at his disposal. The intimacy between mother and child is not sustaining and healthy. The child...

It’s easier to say (I’m going to be myself and if anyone wants to be with me, then she/he has to accept me as I am…flaws and all) than it is for us to work...

If I hear any more loud voices, you will both be auctioned off on eBay. I could use the extra money.

The raising of a child is the building of a cathedral. You can’t cut corners.

We’re constantly judging and grading other parents, just to make sure that they aren’t any better than us. I’m as guilty as anyone. I see some lady hand her kid a Nintendo DS at the...

When we combine very real workplace inequalities with these romantic opt-out stories, the idea that “having it all” is a laughable goal becomes enshrined as immutable truth. And when we portray opting out as a...

The best antidote to worry is action. If there is an action that will lessen the likelihood of a dreaded outcome occurring, and if that action doesn’t cost too much in terms of effort or...

A baby’s cry is precisely as serious as it sounds.

Orphans? Would you really? Adopt children?””There are advantages. If they turn out badly, we can blame their natural parents. We can also choose our own assortment of ages and genders. We can even get them...

We must be what we wish our children to be. They will form their characters from ours.

Education is the best gift my parent gave me.

I will hold my self to a standard of grace which is Christ’s gift, not perfection which is Satan’s trap.

The Tone is the Message.

There is nothing that moves a loving father’s soul quite like his child’s cry.

Pendidikan pada diri seorang anak sesungguhnya dimulai jauh sebelum anak tersebut memiliki tubuh dan kesadaran manusiawinya

If the world is so cruel you are frightened of it, I will hold you, and protect you, and teach it to love you as I already love you.

Every child should be read to.

As a mother I see the future in the present. Every little thing she does or says makes me form a hypothesis of how she will see life and treat others in 20 years. So...

I wanted to explore this idea that the bogey man in the closet is scary, but being a mother is scarier.

Listening to our kids with an open heart & mind is the strongest way to build a relationship with them – especially when they’re wrong.

What is success, after all, but doing what you really want to do?

Leadership is giving out far more than one expects in direct return. The rewards are intangible, yet priceless.

I’m beginning to perceive motherhood as a long, slow letting go, of which birth is just the first step.

But Nita had always seen having a child as selfish. Why bring another soul into this world, she’d say, when there are so many out there that need our help?

I do not believe in the government of the lash, if any one of you ever expects to whip your children again, I want you to have a photograph taken of yourself when you are...

But to be a parent is to live in the past-present-future all at once. It is to hug your children and be intensely aware of how much smaller they felt last year … even as...

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...

If you can give your son or daughet only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.

I sometimes heard the parents of Michel’s playmates sigh about how, after a busy day, they really needed “a moment to themselves.” The children were in bed at last, and then came the magic moment,...

Dads. Do your faces light up when you first see your child in the morning or when you come home from work? Do you not understand that a child’s entire sense of value can revolve...

What do we say to a guest who forgets her umbrella? Do we run after her and say “What is the matter with you? Every time you come to visit you forget something. If it’s...

The miracle of children is that we just don’t know how they will change or who they will become.

Then the dreaded words, Your child has autism. These words echo in their heads like a freight train blasting through their hopes and dreams.

The last time Assistant Principal Parker called, a girl in the school’s locker room had accused Julie of being a whore during the two years she’d spent on the street. My kid took exception to...

There are many different ways of approaching parenting as there are cultures. However, in non-industrialized cultures, the similarities are also striking. Extended nursing, co-sleeping, carrying the baby in close physical contact, responding promptly to cries...