Am I alone in this mother-food connection or does being with your mom trigger the sudden and voracious need for large amounts of mac & cheese, rice pudding, and the scraps along the side of...

The day of birth is day of life.

In those years before mobile phones, email and Skype, travelers depended on the rudimentary communications system known as the postcard. Other methods–the long-distance phone call, the telegram–were marked “For Emergency Use Only.” So my parents...

The natural term of the affection of the human animal for its offspring is six years.

Isn’t it wonderful to give birth to your own kind?

I am a divorced child, of divided, uncertain background. Within this division I – supposed fruit of their love – no longer exist. It happened nearly forty years ago, yet to me nothing is sadder...

I want to go back to the tell-me-again times when I slept in her bed and we were everything together. When I was everything to her. Everything she needed.

Nothing,” my dad and I say at the same time, and he smiles at me.

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

We are respecting our parents’ wishes….They didn’t want to shelter us from the world’s treacheries. They wanted us to survive them.

If parents don’t want to hear the truth, children learn not to speak it.

Y’all know how much I love you? “Infinity and back again,” I say the way I’ve said it a million times. And then, daddy says to me, “go on and add a little bit more...

Children see beauty in everything.

she hated everything her parents loved

But Dad looked delighted. “My Mia’s singing ‘Waiting for Vengeance’ to my Teddy. What do you think about that?

the talk,” that with sons, all he had to worry about was one penis, but with a daughter, he had to worry about everyone else’s.

Kids don’t act right. Sure it’s embarrassing when it happens but any reasonable person won’t fault a parent when a kid throws a fit. However, when a child doesn’t act right and a parent doesn’t...

Two things we have no control:The family in which you were born it to and the name you were given at birth.

They fuck you up, your mum and dad? No, that wasn’t it at all. Well, they did do that, perhaps, but they also allowed you to become the person, and the writer, that you had...

I am not sure whether you could call this abuse, but when I was (long ago) abroad in the world of dry men, I saw parents, usually upscale and educated and talented and functional and...

Birthday is a glorious day.

When I encourage someone, I see it as an investment in their resilience.

How can it be, after all this concentrated effort and separation, how can it be that I still resemble, so very closely, my own detestable mother?

I’ve learned that regardless of your relationship with your parents, you’ll miss them when they’re gone from your life.

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

The wonders of a child can only be understood by the child.

Nothing’s scarier than having a sick child, and one so newly born, and so vulnerable. It’s the worst thing for a parent.

Maybe I am getting too grown to want to sleep with Mama. But like a baby, I still have this smallness to my mind. I don’t need her hands to convince me the world I...

Birthday, the celebration of life. Celebrate who you are. Celebrate your uniqueness. Celebrate your achievement. Celebrate all that you are capable of becoming.

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...

Neither your mother nor I have any imagination at all and we certainly didn’t bring you up to have one

But she knew it would never happen. She had no intention of visiting him there. Even if she were open to the idea, as Mom and Dad both hoped she would be, the mathematics of...

Our parents can show us a lot of things: they can show us how we are to be and what things we ought to strive for, or they can show us how not to be...

Life begins at the day of birth. Birthday is a great day of honour.

Raising a child is a time of RAPID CHANGE! From the ages of 0 to 19, a PARENT can age over 30 years!

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

It’s easy for parents to pull the strings that make one dance…after all, they are the ones who tied those strings in the first place

There’s nothing like your mother’s sympathetic voice to make you want to burst into tears.

A dream is a seed.Vision plants it.Imagination nurtures growth.Opportunities create blooms.Thoughts become things!

Sadie heard her inside cleaning up the kitchen and wondered what dreams Betty’s mother had for herself, if all mothers had them, bottled up beneath their mother exteriors.

Happy homes are filled with the noise of children; unhappy homes the noise of their parents

A child of God, special possession.

We grow up opposing our parents only to become like them enough to oppose our children who behave as we once did—a reminder of how dreadful we were toward those now vindicated grandparents. And you...

The miracle of children is that we just don’t know how they will change or who they will become.

The accountant lingers at his children’s doorway a moment more, listening to the easy rhythm of their breathing, and something cold moves through him, like the passage of a ghost – but he know that’s...

I would think of certain winter nights when he wedged himself between Nona and me in bed, a furtive warmth embedded in his skin already tinctured with virginal earth and milk and possibility, or how...

Children of God, Children of the light.

ဘဝမွာ မိဘရယ္ ၊ သားသမီးရယ္ ၊ ညီအစ္ကိုေမာင္ႏွမရယ္ ၊ ေနာက္ဆံုးလင္မယားဆိုတာေတာင္ မေတာ္တဆ ၾကံဳေတြ႔ၾကတာမို႔ တစ္ေယာက္နဲ႔တစ္ေယာက္ မတန္တဆ မေမွ်ာ္မွန္းထိုက္ဘူး ၊ မလိုခ်င္ မေတာင္းခံထိုက္ဘူး ။ ေပးသမွ် ကိုသာ ေက်းဇူးတတင္ ယူထိုက္တယ္ ။

She heard him speak, but did not recognise the problem in his voice – only later did she realise it was that thing he’d been concealing – known as guilt.

Parent should never forget the great excitement they felt for the birth of a new born into the world.