An exhausted parent can’t provide the best care, although occasionally, we have all had to do so.

Kids. They’re not tin cans or sheetrock. They’re laughing machines. Wind them up and watch them go.

Children make your lives a mess and set your priorities straight.

What a funny girl, I thought, and then I realized something. To the three-year-old ye, and maybe even to the thirty year old eye, weeds and grass look very similar. Same color, same feeling, same...

The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant, and let the air out of the tires.

Did you notice there aren’t any average kids anymore—only Gifted and Disposable?

Here’s a tip for new parents: Start lowering those expectations early, it’s going to pay off later.

I complained to a friend that although I had completed six years in therapy, my mother still wouldn’t let me go. He replied, “She’s not supposed to let you go. Your father is supposed to...

Our children are only as brilliant as we allow them to be.

The most important thing anyone can do is raise their kids well.

Gardening and making your own soap and home-birthing your babies are fine, but these are inherently limited actions. If we want to see genuine food safety, if we want to see sustainable products, if we...

All severity that does not tend to increase good, or prevent evil, is idle.

Realizing the emptiness of a “spirituality” — and of a “spiritual” nurture — that remains in the clouds need not bring us or our children to a dead end. It is a turning point. Now...

Sometimes, for the present,” I said, turning to April, “all we can do is hold on. Sometimes it’s that ability, and that ability alone, that gets us through the rough parts. But if we do...

Having kids means taking care of them, raising them, loving and supporting them, and none of those things have anything to do with who makes them one night in the bedroom or the experience of...

I realize it’s commonplace for parents to say to their child sternly, ‘I love you, but I don’t always like you.’ But what kind of love is that? It seems to me that comes down...

The best way to guide children without coercion is to be ourselves.

If we fail to provide boys with pro-social models of the transition to adulthood, they may construct their own. In some cases, gang initiation rituals, street racing, and random violence may be the result.

The adoptee benefits because his collective parents are permitted to grow secure in their particular roles in his life. His adoptive parents are not unwittingly encouraged to compete to possess him. Nor are his birth...

The balancing act we parents attempt is convincing our children: 1. You are loved more than you can imagine. 2. The world does not revolve around you.

If you do not have a close friendship with your children, I will.” Child Molester warning all parents from the book Type 1 Sociopath

Trust me.” The words are a prayer, not a warranty. I understand that now.

No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.

In every southerner, beneath the veneer of clichés lies a much deeper motherlode of cliché. But even cliché is overlaid with enormous power when a child is involved.

It seems to me that if God felt it best to delay marriage into the latter part of your twenties, He would also see fit to delay the hormonal urge to want to have sex....

Kids took a fathomless amount of time and energy…And they took it first. They had right of first refusal on everything you had to offer. p220

In that day, we didn’t have no remote controls and vacuum cleaners. If you wanted all that stuff you had children!

…Ty grabbed my phone and threatened to tell Otter that I liked being spanked during sex.This proceeded to lead up on a long tangent where I had to have him explain to me how he...

If you can’t do what you really want to do, then do the next best thing!

Father to teenage son: “My relationship with you is more important than anything I’ve got to say to you.

The key is to understand that our children don’t belong to us—they belong to God. Our goal as parents must not be limited by our own vision. I am a finite, sinful, selfish man. Why...

If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent.

A child has a greater chance of being sexually abused than burned in a fire. Along with stop, drop, and roll we must teach them to yell, run, and tell.

School plays were invented partly to give parents and easy opportunity to demonstrate their priorities.

Screaming at children over their grades, especially to the point of the child’s tears, is child abuse, pure and simple. It’s not funny and it’s not good parenting. It is a crushing, scarring, disastrous experience...

If parents were as concerened about raising their children as they are about the outcome of their sitcom or sports game, this nation would thrive.

Mr Cobb would acquaint him, that when he was his age, his father thought no more of giving him a parental kick, or a box on the ears, or a cuff on the head, or...

Adopted. Big Deal; so was Superman

The point of an organi family is to release the children from the disadvantages of being extensions of their parents so that they can belong primarily to themselves. They may accept the services that adults...

All people cross the line from childhood to adulthood with a secondhand opinion of who they are. Without any questioning, we take as truth whatever our parents and other influentials have said about us during...

FAMILY. The ties that bind. The cement that builds character, strength of purpose, mutual respect, values.

We are partners with our children because we are just like them, dearly loved sinners.

In a brain scan, relational pain—that caused by isolation during punishment—can look the same as physical abuse. Is alone in the corner the best place for your child?

Through the grace shown to us in the gospel, there is something distinctly Christlike about a mother’s love for her child.

I am not.” Jaccob took his hand out of his coat pocket, where he’d been reaching to check his police scanner or music player (he hadn’t decided which to use first).

One thing I had learned from watching chimpanzees with their infants is that having a child should be fun.

Most important jobs of a parent: unconditional love, comfort and protection, and a solid platform and values for future success

If you want to be treated like a mother, act like one.

Allow yourself to think that the possibility of failure is a necessary part of parenting well…. Avoiding the possibility of failure means avoiding the possibility of being an extraordinary parent-and avoiding what you want for...

The reality is that most of us communicate the same way that we grew up. That communication style becomes our normal way of dealing with issues, our blueprint for communication. It’s what we know and...