I’d rather be a ‘THINKER’ – Two Healthy Incomes No Kids Early Retirement!

It’s about parenting practices of the past, what they knew at the time they were doing it and what they know today.

To you who are parents, I say, show love to your children. You know you love them, but make certain they know it as well. They are so precious. Let them know. Call upon our...

The most precious gift that you can give to the child is unconditional love and acceptance, which allows the child to discover his own inner being, his authentic self, his freedom to be himself.

Your child’s needs are far more profound than his aberrant behavior. Remember, his behavior does not just spring forth uncaused. His behavior – the things he says and does – reflects his heart. If you...

I think . . . you should have children, John.” At least he’s no longer talking about bugs.”I’m too young, Dad.””It’s the most important thing . . . I’ve done in . . . my...

We have such a brief opportunity to pass on to our children our love for this Earth, and to tell our stories. These are the moments when the world is made whole. In my children’s...

There can be no fooling ourselves into thinking this is something other than what it is—the willful ejection of Molly from our nest. It’s too late for second thoughts, anyway. She has to be moved...

Nurturing a child’s sense of personal worth and therefore hope and dreams for a wonderful future is perhaps the most important responsibility of every grownup in a child’s life.

Too many parents fail to understand that there is a difference between fitting in and being liked, that there is a difference between being “normal” and being happy. High school is temporary. Family is not.

No blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son.

Most kids act out because they want your attention. Don’t spank your child show them some attention.

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...

It felt great to be loved. Children… Children are a hazard to your life… As they’d got older they had become more expensive. But it was worth it. If she didn’t have her children her...

King of Prussia.

Parenting is a partnership. Loving each other has a big impact on your children.

Being a good parent is not an obligation, it is a choice. Plenty of people fall short in the parent category and quite a few refuse to accept it. You will do a much better...

When you’re lying in bed at night and regrets from the day come to steal your sleep… “I should have” “If only I’d” “I wish I’d”…grab one of them and turn it into an “I...

The essence of successful discipline is not technique; rather, it is self-confidence.

For most of the things children do, parents are responsible. A good seed, noble thoughts and upbringing deeds can determine the character and personality feeds of our children. The amount of money we spend on...

Mothering you is the first thing of consequence I have ever done.

Bedtime makes you realize how completely incapable you are of being in charge of another human being. My children act like they’ve never been to sleep before. “Bed? What’s that? No, I’m not doing that.”...

My heart filled with Nick’s smile, with the look of sheer adoration he gave me as he lugged the bucket. In the space of an instant, I felt it again—the crumbling of an old part...

I thought of all the magazine article I’d read on mothers who worked and constantly felt guilty about leaving their children with someone else. I had trained myself to read pieces like that and silently...

Sometimes, kids want you to hurt the way they hurt.

No matter how long the preparation, you will never feel ready to write an exam, to start a business, to be parent or even to die. Just go for it.

Before I got married I had six theories about raising children; now, I have six children and no theories.

When I got to the States and started going to an American high school, which I did for an extremely short time, I thought everyone around me was insane, the way they talked about their...

If the sound of happy children is grating on your ears, I don’t think it’s the children who need to be adjusted.

The Creator favors the man who LOVES over the man who HATES. If you teach hatred to your children, one day your child will have that hatred reflected back onto them and onto YOU.

Genuine love for a child, it seems to me, must include a desire for his maturity and ultimately his independence. WAtching a personality unfold is perhaps the deepest pleasure of parenthood; wishing, or trying, to...

Parenting is a sacred responsibility with the sobering reality, of raising scholars or scars.

Did you have fun in school today?!” She’ll sense how important it is that the answer be yes.

Health is not a physical accomplishment but the manifestation of our awareness of who we are and integrity in living out of that knowledge.

Most children threaten at times to run away from home. This is the only thing that keeps some parents going.

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...