The more love and support your child receives, the richer his or her life becomes, and nurses can certainly add to the circle of love surrounding your child.

When do you become a man? When you become your own man. When other men trust you to do a man’s work. Trust you with their name, their reputation, their thoughts. Trust you to watch...

One of the greatest things parents can do for their children is to believe in them(their uniqueness) and help them realize their own God-given dreams

Identify your Radar – it’s your brain functioning optimally; not a vague intuition or cosmic sixth sense.Train your Radar in key areas like: evaluating people, personal safety, healthy relationships, physical and mental well-being, money and...

So, your best defense is knowledge. It really is power, as they say…The more you know, the more easily you will develop your own philosophies about child rearing. When you have your facts straight, and...

Saturday mornings, I’ve learned, are a great opportunity for kids to sneak into your bed, fall back asleep, and kick you in the face.

That’s the news from Lake Woebegon, where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average.

When you take the time to actually listen, with humility, to what people have to say, it’s amazing what you can learn. Especially if the people who are doing the talking also happen to be...

Sometimes our work as caregivers is not for the faint of heart. But, you will never know what you are made of until you step into the fire. Step bravely!

Her conclusion: “You just have to follow your own heart” when it comes to medical decision-making.

Dwight Eisenhower said that from the beginning, his mother and father operated on an assumption that set the course of his life – that the world could be fixed of its problems if every child...

The irreducible, ultimate element in religious faith is the insistence that we are created things; male and female He created them; without God we are nothing. And yet, when men and women have children and...

Children of God, Children of the light.

It’s a fathers job to spoil his daughters shamelessly, it’s their husbands job to tame them. Prince Zehava-The Dragon Prince

And they certainly wouldn’t take you along to a murder. That would be irresponsible parenting.

There is no single effort more radical in its potential for saving the world than a transformation of the way we raise our children.

Your typical Six-year-old is a paradoxical little person, and bipolarity is the name of his game.

Since we have had this baby with us, I have never again wondering why I never got pregnant. There is no doubt in my mind that God, in His wonderful way, was saving us to...

Adoption is the most intentional process on Earth.

Das mine!’ protested Ava, Bennie’s daughter, affirming Alex’s recent theory that language acquisition involved a phase of speaking German. She snatched a plastic skillet away from his own daughter, Cara-Ann, who lurched after it, roaring,...

we can learn to trust our maternal selves and to have faith in the innate goodness and purity of our children – even when we feel overwhelmed and the kids are pushing all our buttons....

Parenthood…It’s about guiding the next generation, and forgiving the last.

He welcomes the chance to do fatherly things with the little girl, and those ten morning minutes with dear little four-year-old Ruby, with her deep soulful eyes, and the wondrous things she sees with them,...

It’s impossible to protect your kids against disappointment in life.

Out of all the things I do, I think being a mom is the most important and satisfying.

Of course our most important role as a parent is to have our children know that they are loved and worthy. Even more importantly, it’s to help them discover, and fan the flames of whatever...

Having children is like living in a frat house – nobody sleeps, everything’s broken, and there’s a lot of throwing up.

I don’t understand why some kids git a good school and mother and father and some don’t. But Rita say forgit the WHY ME shit and git on to what’s next.

Successful teaching is not head-to-head; it is heart-to-heart.

The greatest source of security our children have in this world is a God-honoring, Christ-centered marriage between their parents.

What is called family pride is often founded on the illusion of self-love. A man wishes to perpetuate and immortalize himself.

I was just four when a hired teenage field hand attempted to molest me. Miraculously, I got away, and I told my dad. My father made three important choices that day: He listened to me,...

We must imbue our children with principles of the higher-self, principles which see all people as true equals, and above all, which are sensitive to the delicate and fragile balance of life.

I’ve realised now that the reality of children is you have to be in the right place with the right person.

Parenting the outside of the child is as useless as polishing a rotten apple.

Oh my God! Why do we do that? What does it mean?” The auditorium erupted in some kind of crazy parent revival. As I had suspected, I was not alone.

Time grants a unique perspective which allows us to see events through a filter of accumulated wisdom.

We can only afford two children’ really means, ‘We only like clean, well-disciplined middle-class children who go to good schools and grow up to be professionals’, for children manage to use up all the capital...

The only power that can effect transformations of the order (of Jesus) is love. It remained for the 20th century to discover that locked within the atom is the energy of the sun itself. For...

Mantras are the past & the future.

By loving them for more than their abilities we show our children that they are much more than the sum of their accomplishments.

The Lord teaches us of His grace and the Gospel through difficult children. We learn what it’s like to love like He loved. It is there, in our personal upper room, where we learn to...

Father, I am from a different egg than your other children. Think of me as a duckling raised by hens. I am not a domestic bird destined to spend his life in a chicken coop....

Being a parent is a gift, one which most men unselfishly allow women to keep all to themselves.

We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves.

Thus far we have been able to protect [our children] from the deep and enduring traumas that scar the minds and selves of so many of the patients I see. How — how?—can I make...

that a child is not an event, alleged or otherwise, a mistake or accident or crime. . . he is by definition more than this, sum rather than division, a living promissory note.

You can’t cling to the side your whole life, that one lesson every parent needs to teach a child is “If you don’t want to sink, you better figure out how to swim

Even though you can’t control outcomes for your child, you can parent unconditionally with all your heart.

I do not know many people who think they have succeeded as parents. Those who do tend to cite the markers that indicate (their own) status in the world: the Stanford degree….Those of us less...