That so many thousands of children around the world are available for adoption is a sign of our impoverished humanity. That so many persons around the world open their hearts and homes each year to...

Attachment parenting, Sears writes, “immunizes children against many of the social and emotional diseases which plague our society,” producing children who are “compassionate,” “caring,” “admirable,” “affectionate,” “confident,” and “accomplished” (“faster than a speeding bullet,” “more...

Many men have children, but not many children have ‘Fathers’. Age releases to you reproductive skills. Fatherhood requires LEADERSHIP skills

If you can control your behavior when everything around you is out of control, you can model for your children a valuable lesson in patience and understanding…and snatch an opportunity to shape character.

I don’t think each of us receives one harvest only–an after-death sort of payment for services rendered. I think we all get a lifetime full of little harvests–those small miracles that stand out from the...

But my personal favorite words of wisdom came from Gulley during the last thirty minutes of the trip, when she broke up a backseat scuffle by declaring, ‘When you lick the person sitting next to...

Meditation is doing what you are doing – whether you are doing formal meditation or child care.

OUr past doesn’t define us. It prepares us.

Women without children are also the best of mothers,often, with the patience,interest, and saving grace that the constant relationship with children cannot always sustain. I come to crave our talk and our daughters gain precious...

Adoption is a wonderful way of becoming a family. If being a biological parent is any better or more rewarding than being an adoptive parent, I really don’t think I could stand it!

Adoption is grief in reverse.

If you wanted to create an education environment that was directly opposed to what the brain was good at doing, you probably would design something like a classroom. If you wanted to create a business...

We are the windows through which our children first see the world. Let us be conscious of the view.

Mothers who know do less. They permit less of what will not bear good fruit eternally. They allow less media in their homes, less distraction, less activity that draws their children away from their home....

I mean, when the world comes for your children, with the knives out, it’s your job to stand in the way.

If you’re using most of your energy to do stuff for your kids, then you’ll have that much less energy to just be there for them.

If Mom is convinced that ballet lessons are a must, she shouldtake them.Although it may look odd to see a thirty-year old woman hang- ing onto a bar and flinging a slightly plump leg in...

You can’t judge your parenting by the choices of your kids.

Perhaps it’s human nature: We want to shield our children from pain, and what we get instead is life and heartache and lessons that bring us to our knees. Sooner or later we are handed...

I hated the flashcards and I hated the multiplication tables, but I did enjoy the fact that my dad took time out of his schedule to help me in the areas in which I needed...

All problems, though appearing outside of you, must be resolved within YOU.

Discipling our children is not about teaching them to behave in a way that won’t embarrass us. We’re working toward something much more important than that. We’re actually raising our children with a view toward...

How we feel about our kids isn’t as important as how they experience those feelings and how they regard the way we treat them.

Child abuse is still sanctioned — indeed, held in high regard — in our society as long as it is defined as child-rearing. It is a tragic fact that parents beat their children in order...

*marissa tries to get her single, working mother’s attention by suggesting something outrageous, to which mom replies:*’You’re a smart girl. Use your head and avoid any guy who reminds you of your father.

Don’t have kids until you’re ready. And when you do have them, have them all the way. They aren’t like some Cadillac that you can turn back into the dealership after three years.

Father had stretched out his long legs and was tilting back in his chair. Mother sat with her knees crossed, in blue slacks, smoking a Chesterfield. The dessert dishes were still on the table. My...

Today’s troubled homes are made by parents who want to have children but don’t want their children to have parents

The most important thing to remember, the guiding principle, is to try to keep your son’s self esteem intact while he is in school. That is the real risk to his success and to his...

Dads. It’s time to tell our kids that we love them. Constantly. It’s time to show our kids that we love them. Constantly. It’s time to take joy in their twenty-thousand daily questions and their...

When a child hits a child, we call it aggression.When a child hits an adult, we call it hostility.When an adult hits an adult, we call it assault.When an adult hits a child, we call...

The path of development is a journey of discovery that is clear only in retrospect, and it’s rarely a straight line.

It was what Aunty Ifeoma did to my cousins, I realized then, setting higher and higher jumps for them in the way she talked to them, in what she expected of them. She did it...

What did I tell you about plastic ties? Only for humans, Julie murmured.If you don’t listen to me, I can’t teach you anything.

We want our children to become who they are— and a developed person is, above all, free. But freedom as we define it doesn’t mean doing what you want. Freedom means the ability to make...

My mothering needed a tad more Mother Theresa and a lot less Lizzy Borden.

When a child is locked in the bathroom with water running and he says he’s doing nothing but the dog is barking, call 911.

I slid down in the seat and began to weep. I wept for her, for me, but mostly because the siren call of my first big story with a yellow border around it was more...

What doesn’t kill you will make you stronger

A child’s behavior we see on the surface is the reflection of the feelings that are rooted underneath. We can use topical treatments to try to shape what the behavior looks like, but if we...

For every guy who loves being a dad, there’s another who realizes too late that he’s created something his wife loves more than him.

This is why we can’t have nice things…

It’s not politically correct to say that you love one child more than you love your others. I love all of my kids, period, and they’re all your favorites in different ways. But ask any...

Once you put yourself on the lookout for teachable moments, you’ll find them everywhere!

You don’t need to be primary caregiver of your children to be of primary influence in their lives. What you do for them behind the scenes in your own unique way is what makes the...

Simplification establishes an unspoken emphasis on relationship.

Whether you’re the best lawyer…Or the greatest philosopher…There will alway be at least two people that you can never win any argument with…Your child…And your wife…So don’t argue with them…Just love them…

This is not a contest with your child. The winner is not the one with more points. The winner is the one whose child still loves them when they graduate from high school.

Our children need to see that faith matters, that it’s relevant to our daily situations, that it’s real.

Children are people, and they should have to reach to learn about things, to understand things, just as adults have to reach if they want to grow in mental stature. Life is composed of lights...