The proper time to influence the character of a child is about 100 years before he is born.

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

I would keep her, and raise her, and love her, even if she had to teach me how to do it.

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.

A mother is the person who takes care of you when you're sick. The one who holds you when you're afraid. The one who follows the bus to school on the first day to make sure you made it okay. I have...

Some of our children are our justifications and some are but our regrets.

The Government's going to pass a bill regarding schools. Well I never. Interfering gang they are, as if a parent doesn't know what's best for her own child. I don't know, I don't know! We won't be...

Every child is a blessing and should be raised to become a blessing to others.

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...

Remember that every child and every parent has a completely unique and special relationship. That child knows his dad and loves his dad. Our job is to watch that communication, to nurture it, and to...

I want to remember warming your two a.m. bottle, clipping your locks, watching you be baptized, bathing you in the big porcelain sink… how I often laid you against my chest and felt the cradlesong...

I'm trying to tell him everything will be all right, but how can I say it with a straight face? My son's no idiot. He knows when I'm lying. The medicine won't taste bad. The bath is not hot. Daddy...

Mom smiled and brushed my hair away from my face. You can call yourself whatever you want. Okay. Sophie Awesome Sparkle - Princess it is.

Allow yourself to think that the possibility of failure is a necessary part of parenting well... . Avoiding the possibility of failure means avoiding the possibility of being an extraordinary parent -...

Today our children are our reflection. Tomorrow they will be our shadows.

We all say we want our kids to be happy, only happy, and healthy, but we don't want that. We want them to be like we are, or better than we are. We as humans are very unimaginative in that sense. We...

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...

The greatest compliment in the world is your adult children telling you they had a wonderful childhood.

Watch the littlest kids carefully

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

A child is like a ship. One can never be too young to be steered to the right course.

With sensitive children, physical blows or traumas aren't required to make them afraid of the dark.

A child is like a relationship. You can only shape it as it's growing, or it becomes a menace if let to grow without respect, understanding and focus.

Tantrums are not bad behavior. Tantrums are an expression of emotion that became too much for the child to bear. No punishment is required. What your child needs is compassion and safe, loving arms to...

I never really grew up until I had kids.

My mother was good at that, making people feel normal. Safe. Like as long as she was there, nothing truly bad could happen.