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...

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...