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.

Being a parent is like being a catcher. You gotta handle whatever is thrown your way.

Every parent is an artist, but not every artist is apparent.

She wants you to be a god,” I told him.”I know.” His face twisted with embarrassment, and in spite of itself my heart lightened. It was such a boyish response. And so human. Parents, everywhere.

Did my father talk to me? It’s true, he didn’t say a lot to me, but I knew what had to be done. No need for big speeches. He taught me the fundamentals of our...

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...