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

What parent can give to their children is the gift of daily prayer.

As we age, we become our parents; live long enough and we see faces repeat in time.

If I had received good instruction as a child I would be with my family today and at peace with my neighbors. I hope and pray that all you parents in the sound of my...

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...

He had been searching for it his entire life. He had devoted himself to poetry to find it. Now, in the middle of his life, he found it. It was in the face of the...

Ifem, how is the weather in America?

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

You do know what I mean about Mom. It’s like she radios into headquarters for Dad’s feelings when she senses hers need backup.

When I say to a parent, ‘read to a child,’ I don’t want it to sound like medicine. I want it to sound like chocolate.

We come into the world through a man and a woman. But life blessings us with many fathers and mothers.

The best thing parents can do for their children is allow them to be who they were born to be.

Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your grandparents had adifferent word for burger flipping; they called it opportunity.

Every day we are reborn.

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

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...

The words marriage and divorce were always used together, like they went hand in hand together.

Wart meets Merlin for the first time – only for Merlin, who lives backwards, it’s the last time. The old wizard weeps and the boy can’t understand why. It’s a powerful expression of the gulf...

My father believes with his entire soul that the meek shall inherit the earth. My children will inherit the earth but they will not be meek.

I learned that adults were not soaring gods, but rather back-yard birds with broken wingtips.When you are thirteen, about to free-fall into the real world, discovering the broken wingtips is terrifying.

Children are God’s way of saving us. They give us a second chance at getting it right.

Sometimes to be a good parent… You have to laugh when you want to be angry. You have to be angry when you want to laugh. And that is why good parenting is tough.

Strange combination, isn’t it–gratitude and resentment? But this is the way I think. Actually, I think everybody thinks that way. Even the children of the humans who died long ago, I think they lived their...

Is that what love is all about? Needing them to come back to you when they’re away? To come home and keep you safe?

All grown-ups were once children… but only few of them remember it.” ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

All I ever wanted was to make my parents proud. What happens when I can’t be proud of them?” –Shea Evenstar

In retrospect, it seems obvious that my research about parenting was also a means to subdue my anxieties about becoming a parent…. I grew up afraid of illness and disability, inclined to avert my gaze...

The birth of a child is a sacred phenomenon.

Back then, things were plainer: less money, no electronic devices, little fashion tyranny, no girlfriends. There was nothing to distract us from our human and filial duty which was to study, pass exams, use those...

I don’t think it matters how many parents you’ve got, as long as those who are around make their presence a good one.

Education is the best gift my parent gave me.

Only children simply accept the fact that their parents have the right to make choices for them. Even disobedient children never question the fact that their parents have that right. They may choose to flout...

There is no home as comfortable as your father’s arms and no bed as soft as your mother’s lap.

Adoption is the most intentional process on Earth.

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.