I look at my little girl and I wonder what she's going to be and what she's going to do and what is it that leads girls certain directions in life. I think a lot of that goes back to what kind of...

We read our children stories starring elephants and monkeys and bears to teach them about nobility, curiosity and courage, to warn them against selfishness and stubbornness.

The absolute dependence of a newborn infant inspired many things in me, but it did not activate any magical knowledge about what to do for the next twenty years.

I recently discovered Artkive, a wonderful app that allows you to archive your child's artwork and create cool gifts like photo albums, mugs, mousepads, etc. It's very easy to use, and since Arabella...

Teach love, generosity, good manners and some of that will drift from the classroom to the home and who knows, the children will be educating the parents.

Every parent is at some time the father of the unreturned prodigal with nothing to do but keep his house open to hope.

I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.

Being mom is one of my favorite things. It makes my day watching my kids grow and accomplish things in their lives.

Happiness is when you realize that your kids have grown up to be AWESOME people!

Patients are almost always preceded by their parents, because no matter how fast an ambulance can drive, terrified parents can drive faster.

Anisette! You will eat your food, not demonstrate aerial warfare across the table with it.

Kids don't care how many sermons you preach to them. The only sermon they'll hear is how you live your life in front of them.

Being a good parent is not an obligation, it is a choice. Plenty of people fall short in the parent category and quite a few refuse to accept it. You will do a much better job if you understand that...

Just because a child doesn't have both parents raising him or her, doesn't mean that child becomes half the person they were meant to be. One wonderful parent can love enough for two, and love will...

Children need the lie to be brave enough to sleep in their beds

Fathers and daughters have a special bond. She is always daddy's little girl.

I think we owe it to our children to share our wisdom. If we share our wisdom for the purpose of changing our children, then that's hitting them over the head with a hammer or shoving something down...

Good parents have good hearts to accommodate the little things that mean a lot to their children. Good parents have good hands to touch and shape the little things that mean a lot to the life of their...

It's not our job to toughen our children up to face a cruel and heartless world. It's our job to raise children who will make the world a little less cruel and heartless.

Parenting is something that happens mostly while you're thinking of something else.

The ideal of maternal instinct can act as a barrier to acquiring tools women need to cope with children. If you really love your kids, the text of public conversation to mothers reads, you won't hit...

Treat a child as though he is already the person he is capable of becoming. - Haim Ginott

"And then she got older, and . . ." Lydia shook her head. "Having a teenager is like having a really, really shitty roommate. They eat all your food and steal your clothes and take money out of your...

Behold, children are a heritage from the LORD, the fruit of the womb is a reward. PSALM 127:3

Do not create children until one is ready to be a creator and to spawn creators. It is wrong to bear children out of need, wrong to use a child to alleviate loneliness, wrong to provide purpose in...

Children are not coloring books. We cannot fill them with our favorite colors.

People say a mother is only as happy as her least happy child. But what if the state of that child's happiness has become a mystery? What if that child is no longer a child but a young man who has...

The recent spate of magazines for "parents" {i.e., mothers} bombard the anxiety-induced mothers of America with reassurances that they can {after a $100,000 raise and a personality transplant} produce...

A stodgy parent is no fun at all. What a child wants and deserves is a parent who is SPARKY

My father liked me, when I wasna being an idiot. And he loved me, too -- enough to beat the daylights out of me when I was being an idiot. Jamie Fraser