Most people do not receive nearly enough appreciation. How can this be when appreciation is free, easy, and readily available? read more

Most people do not receive nearly enough appreciation. How can this be when appreciation is free, easy, and readily available? All you have to do is speak. Go give some away now.

As adults, we must ask more of our children than they know how to ask of themselves. What can we read more

As adults, we must ask more of our children than they know how to ask of themselves. What can we do to foster their open-hearted hopefulness, engage their need to collaborate, be an incentive to utilize their natural competency and compassion...show them ways they can connect, reach out, weave themselves into the web of relationships that is called community. . -Dawna Markova.

Raising kids is part joy and part guerilla warfare. -Ed Asner.

Raising kids is part joy and part guerilla warfare. -Ed Asner.

There is always a moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in. -Graham Green.

There is always a moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in. -Graham Green.

My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it. -Clarence Budinton Kelland.

My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it. -Clarence Budinton Kelland.

You know children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers. -John Plomp.

You know children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers. -John Plomp.

I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and read more

I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it. -Harry S Truman.

Never fear spoiling children by making them too happy. Happiness is the atmosphere in which all good affections grow. . read more

Never fear spoiling children by making them too happy. Happiness is the atmosphere in which all good affections grow. . -Thomas Bray.

Children are natural mimics: they act like their parents in spite of every attempt to teach them good manners. -Anonymous.

Children are natural mimics: they act like their parents in spite of every attempt to teach them good manners. -Anonymous.