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.

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...

The more we want our children to be (1) lifelong learners, genuinely excited about words and numbers and ideas, (2) avoid sticking with what’s easy and safe, and (3) become sophisticated thinkers, the more we...

Parents are not really interested in justice. They just want quiet.

Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person’s character lies in their own hands.

Remember, Little Ones, everything is not important all the time. Only living is important all the time. Not things. Not money. Not more things and more endless money. Spend well the quality of your time....

To be in your children’s memories tomorrow,You have to be in their lives today.

Don’t box your children in and tell them that everything is a sin. You’ll produce either rebels, or very boring people.

Not that I have any little kids running around I need to keep away from the guns. I had any kids I’d get rid of the guns. Nothing more dangerous to the life of a...

Children are gifts. They are not ours for the breaking. They are ours for the making.

Let children alone… the education of habit is successful in so far as it enables the mother to let her children alone, not teasing them with perpetual commands and directions – a running fire of...

Parenthood is the opiate of the masses.

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...

It was a soulless gaze, burning with a wild hatred that shouldn’t be there in anyone who could call themselves a parent.

Babies don’t come with instruction booklets. You’d learn the same way we all do — you’d read up on dinosaurs, you’d Google backhoes and skidders. And you don’t need a penis to go buy a...

Young children especially need the visual reinforcement of seeing you turn to Scripture for wisdom.

The desire to procreate, in some, is so strong that it creates a sort of tunnel vision in the afflicted. One can’t see beyond trying to make a baby, and they never stop to think...

What better reminder do we have than our kids of our own best selves, our less stressed and more carefree selves? In their silliness we see the echo of the way we used to be:...

It’s not an easy time for any parent, this moment when the realization dawns that you’ve given birth to something that will never see things the way you do, despite the fact that it is...