Conscience is less an inner voice than the memory of a mother's glance.
When you have brought up kids, there are memories you store directly in your tear ducts.
A child seldom needs a good talking to as a good listening to.
There is a lesson we learn early and harmlessly, or late and traumatically - that there are things we can break that our parents can't fix.
A parent's love is whole, no matter how many times divided.
In the happiest of our childhood memories, our parents were happy, too.
I have fancied myself a rebel, but at every critical moment of my life, I have been exactly the child my parents raised.
It is one thing to show your child the way, and a harder thing to then stand out of it
Parenting is a stage of life's journey where the milestones come about every fifty feet.
The trouble with having a stubbornness contest with your kids is that they have your stubbornness gene.
Parenthood is the passing of a baton, followed by a lifelong disagreement as to who dropped it.
Do not ask that your kids live up to your expectations. Let your kids be who they are, and your expectations will be in breathless pursuit.
The clash between child and adult is never as stubborn as when the child within us confronts the adult in our child.
Sometimes, in a moral struggle, we discover the right thing to do - just as, on some cold day long ago, we discovered mittens pinned to our coat sleeve.
The trouble with learning to parent on the job is that your child is the teacher.
The advantage of growing up with siblings is that you become very good at fractions.
There is a strong chance that siblings who turn out well were hassled by the same parents.
Conspicuously absent from the Ten Commandments is any obligation of parent to child. We must suppose that God felt it unnecessary to command by law what He had ensured by love.
All any child needs is the protection of loving parents and an alternative source of information.
Yes, to be a good parent, you have to sacrifice, but this is not a requirement of parenting, it is a requirement of being good at something.
What you don't realize as a kid is that if your parents are always going to be there for you, they aren't going to be somewhere else doing exciting and glamorous things.
What you must accept as a parent is that you cannot always be there for your child without sometimes ruining everything.
The hardest thing to accept as a parent is that you cannot apply the bandage before the bruise.
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