Parenting

Parents are the bones on which children cut their teeth. -Peter Ustinov.

Parents are the bones on which children cut their teeth. -Peter Ustinov.

Every beetle is a gazelle in the eyes of its mother. -Arab proverb.

Every beetle is a gazelle in the eyes of its mother. -Arab proverb.

If a child is to keep his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult read more

If a child is to keep his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement and mystery of the world we live in. -Rachel Carson.

Children seldom misquote you. In fact, they usually repeat word for word what you shouldn't have said. -Unknown.

Children seldom misquote you. In fact, they usually repeat word for word what you shouldn't have said. -Unknown.

Frederick Buechner,'Whistling in the Dark' When a child is born, a father is born. A mother is born, too of read more

Frederick Buechner,'Whistling in the Dark' When a child is born, a father is born. A mother is born, too of course, but at least for her it's a gradual process. Body and soul, she has nine months to get used to what's happening. She becomes what's happening. But for even the best-prepared father, it happens all at once. On the other side of a plate-glass window, a nurse is holding up something roughly the size of a loaf of bread for him to see for the first time. Even if he should decide to abandon it forever ten minutes later, the memory will nag him to the grave. He has seen the creation of the world. It has his mark on it. He has its mark on him. Both marks are, for better or for worse, indelible. All sons, like all daughters, are prodigals if they're smart. Assuming the Old Man doesn't run out on them first, they will run out on him if they are to survive, and if he's smart he won't put up too much of a fuss. A wise father sees all this coming, and maybe that's why he keeps his distance from the start. He must survive too. Whether they ever find their way home again, none can say for sure, but it's the risk he must take if they're ever to find their way at all. In the meantime, the world tends to have a soft spot in its heart for lost children. Lost fathers have to fend for themselves. Even as the father lays down the law, he knows that someday his children will break it as they need to break it if ever they're to find something better than law to replace it. Until and unless that happens, there's no telling the scrapes they will get into trying to lose him and find themselves. Terrible blnders will be made-dissapointments and failures, hurts and losses of every kind. And they'll keep making them even after they've found themselves too, of course, because growing up is a process that goes on and on. And every hard knock they ever get, knocks the father even harder still, if that's possible, and if and when they finally come through more or less in one piece at the end, there's maybe no rejoicing greater than his in all creation. -Fatherhood.

A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set read more

A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm. -Bill Vaughan.

We are apt to forget that children watch examples better than they listen to preaching. -Roy L. Smith.

We are apt to forget that children watch examples better than they listen to preaching. -Roy L. Smith.

For only as we ourselves, as adults, actually move and have our being in the state of love, can we read more

For only as we ourselves, as adults, actually move and have our being in the state of love, can we be appropriate models and guides for our children. What we are teaches the child far more than what we say, so we must be what we want our children to become. from Teaching Children to Love, introduction. -Joseph Chilton Pearce.

Human beings are the only creatures on earth that allow their children to come back home. -Bill Cosby.

Human beings are the only creatures on earth that allow their children to come back home. -Bill Cosby.

Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain. -Martin Mull.

Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain. -Martin Mull.