The best security blanket a child can have is parents who respect each other.

This is my life’s work. It is a user’s manual to the human being, a parenting book … and how to be the best you can be.

To begin perfect happiness at the respective ages of twenty-six and eighteen, is to do pretty well; and professing myself moreover convinced, that the General’s unjust interference, so far from being really injurious to their...

It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows

My parents were nonmaterialistic. They believed that money without knowledge was worthless, that education tempered with religion was the way to climb out of poverty in America, and over the years they were proven right.

Instead of treating your child like how you were treated. Treat them with the same love and attention you wanted from your parents while growing up.

Replace a goal of obedience with one of connection and trust instead. Children are drawn to follow those to whom they are emotionally connected. By parenting not for obedience but for relationship, kids are naturally...

TV news is like kryptonite to children. The two major shifts in taste for children to adulthood are news and mustard. Kids hate news and mustard. Well, mustard even has the word ‘turd’ in it....

. . .you sounded frustrated and pissed off and amazingly happy

Parenting is really just a matter of tracking, of hoping your kids do not get so far ahead you can no longer see their next moves.

Teachable moments are any time that you use situations to dialogue with your child about what’s going on- what he or she has seen, heard, or done. As this passage from Deuteronomy (Deut. 6:6-7) describes,...

If you, as a parent, raise your children well, they won’t need you anymore. If you did it properly, they go away.

And if that’s the case — if we are our remembering selves — then it matters far less how we feel moment to moment with our children. They play rich and crucial roles in our...

A stodgy parent is no fun at all. What a child wants and deserves is a parent who is SPARKY

The health of your future kids does not start with their birth—it starts with you, right now, well before you plan to impregnate your wife.

When we start to realize how amazing God’s story is, a question naturally arises: “Who am I that I should get to be a part of the greatest story ever told?

We do children an enormous disservice when we assume that they cannot appreciate anything beyond drive through fare and nutritionally marginal, kid-targeted convenience foods. Our children are capable of consuming something that grew in a...

Don’t stand unmoving outside the door of a crying baby whose only desire is to touch you. Go to your baby. Go to your baby a million times. Demonstrate that people can be trusted, that...

As a young father it’s important to remember that, when you’re at the beach, there’s a BIG difference between telling your five year old son to just go pee in the ocean and telling him...

Journal writing is a wonderful pathway to self-awareness.

Just remember something, okay? And this is neither here nor there but it’s something I really want you to know. Not that I think you have much trouble with this, but let’s be clear: you...

I know what it feels like to miss everything about him–the way he smells, the way his mouth curls up when he laughs, his voice.

The instinct to tell our children that they are better than someone else’s children, based on nothing more than the color of their skin, is now a fossilized aberration that serves no useful purpose.

Adelaide believes that all children should have enough grown-ups around who love them so that one can tell them to fight, one can tell them not to, and one can tell them not to worry...

Who are you to want to escape a thug’s bullet? That’s only a personal prejudice!”Men would shudder, he thought, if they saw a mother bird plucking the feathers from the wings of her young, then...

There are really places in your heart that you don’t know exist until you love a child.

Menjadi panutan bukan tugas anak sulung-kepada adaik-adiknya, tapi tugas orang tua kepada semua anak

She brought a chair into the room and placed it alongside the top of his bed. Then she held his hand as he drifted off to sleep. It was so small in her own hand,...

When they’re little, and you go for years without a good night’s sleep, you wonder if they’ll ever make it through to morning without finding some reason to wake you up. But then one day...

We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.

Dads. Do you honestly expect anybody to believe that you can’t find 20 minutes to step away from your computer or turn off the television to play with your child? It has to happen every...

Little things spell LOVE. Beware the spouse or marriage that places a premium on expensive gifts and ‘toys.

That is the flip side, you see, to laissez-faire parenting. It succeeds or not, throughout the animal kingdom as it does with humans, in direct relationship to the strength of the offspring. Some of us...

If your boundary training consists only of words, you are wasting your breath. But if you ‘do’ boundaries with your kids, they internalize the experiences, remember them, digest them, and make them part of how...

Mothering while grieving should involve being understanding and keeping a gentle attitude toward yourself as you work to balance your own needs and your child’s. You become stronger by remaining aware of your own well-being,...

Last words of his mother to his father: “Keep eternity before the children.

Unconditional parental love is the indespensible nutrient for the child’s healthy emotional growth. The first task is to create space in the child’s heart for the certainty that she is precisely the person the parents...

Although it is very easy to marry a wife, it is very difficult to support her along with the children and the household. Accordingly, no one notices this faith of Jacob. Indeed, many hate fertility...

The surest way to a child’s heart is to spend time with them.

Had I catalogued the downsides of parenthood, “son might turn out to be a killer” would never have turned up on the list. Rather, it might have looked something like this:1. Hassle.2. Less time just...

Everything depends on upbringing.

…the love, respect, and confidence of my children was the sweetest reward I could receive for my efforts to be the woman I would have them copy.

Oh fer Christ’s bloody sake Martha I didna’ raise ye to be well regarded. To be liked. Any puny weak-waisted slut can be liked. I raised ye to be reckoned with.

But I was beginning to feel like it all fit together, the same way everything in the bowl ends up in the bisquits, as Amma would say.

You rock a sobbing child without wondering if today’s world is passing you by, because you know you hold tomorrow in your arms.

What you call your life is not yours at all–not yours to plan, manipulate, or control, at least not very often. . . . In fleeting moments of deep satisfaction and insight, I saw the...

The French believe that kids feel confident when they’re able to do things for themselves, and do those things well. After children have learned to talk, adults don’t praise them for saying just anything. They...

Parents must try to be, or at least put forth their best efforts to be, what they wish [their] children to be. It is impossible for you to be an example of what you are...

We raise predators by treating children as prey.

Pray that your children will develop a heart that seeks after God.