What a child doesn't receive he can seldom later give.
Always kiss your children goodnight, even if they're already asleep.
Your children need your presence more than your presents.
Parenthood is not an object of appetite or even desire. It is an object of will. There is no appetite for parenthood; there is only a purpose or intention of parenthood.
One thing I had learned from watching chimpanzees with their infants is that having a child should be fun.
Our children are watching us live and what we are shouts louder than anything we can say.
When I was kidnapped, my parents snapped into action. They rented out my room.
The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.
There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.
A parent's love is whole, no matter how many times divided.
To you who are parents, I say, show love to your children. You know you love them, but make certain they know it as well. They are so precious. Let them know. Call upon our Heavenly Father for help as you care for their needs each day and as you deal with the challenges which inevitably come with parenthood. You need more than your own wisdom in rearing them.
The biggest challenge is the chaos of parenthood, which has honestly been such a welcome challenge - bring it on, I say!
Parenthood abruptly catapults us into a permanent relationship with a stranger, and the more alien the stranger, the stronger the whiff of negativity. We depend on the guarantee in our children's faces that we will not die. Children whose defining quality annihilates that fantasy of immortality are a particular insult; we must love them for themselves, and not for the best of ourselves in them, and that is a great deal harder to do. Loving our own children is an exercise for the imagination.
We may not be able to prepare the future for our children, but we can at least prepare our children for the future.
Raising kids is part joy and part guerrilla warfare.
There is no way to be a perfect mother, and a million ways to be a good one.
One of the sad realities of being a parent is that the same stuff you know is exciting, educational, and enriching in your child'slife is often messy, smelly and exhausting to deal with.
Parenthood is a school for humility. We can't choose the precise traits of our children, and that is morally important. It teaches us what William May, a theologian whom I greatly admire, calls "an openness to the unbidden."
A person soon learns how little he knows when a child begins to ask questions.
Parenthood changes your outlook on life. Makes you realize what things are important. The responsibility is huge. Just to have that responsibility in your hands is a little frightening, but it's exciting at the same time.
Success for me its to raise happy, healthy human beings.
I don't think children's inner feelings have changed. They still want a mother and father in the very same house; they want places to play.
The well-being and welfare of children should always be our focus.
I was a single parent, and I was prohibited from working.
Mom and Dad would stay in bed on Sunday morning, but the kids would have to go to church.
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