parenthood

At some point, you just gotta forgive the past, your happiness hinges on it.

There is strange comfort in knowing that no matter what happens today, the Sun will rise again tomorrow.

Be a team player, not a bandwagon jumper.

The highway of grace will get you somewhere a whole lot faster then the freeway of spite.

From this point forward, you don__ even know how to quit in life.__ Aaron Lauritsen, _100 Days Drive

True friends don't come with conditions.

The high road of grace will get you somewhere a whole lot faster then the freeway of spite.

Life's trials will test you, and shape you, but don__ let them change who you are.__ Aaron Lauritsen, _100 Days Drive

Contentment sounds ideal; and ignorance is bliss! But what remains of truth, justice and liberty? Why can millions of parent do what I did, and not give the law a consideration? Why do I have to suffer the losses of divorce__he pain and sorrow so accompanied the plight of once-parent, now non-custodial? So much more could be preceded by __hy___o as to leave nothing more. To speak, or think, of these many questions is to sound like I__ whining. But I am whining, about why_.

My whole life, you have made decisions for me.""Your whole life," Georgiana pointed out, "totals nine years.

They were happier now than they would ever be again. A tenpenny tea set made Cam happy for days. She heard them stamping and crowing on the floor above her head the moment they woke. They came bustling along the passage. Then the door sprang open and in they came, fresh as roses, staring, wide awake, as if this coming into the dining-room after was a positive event to them, and so on, with one thing after another, all day long, until she went up to say good-night to them, and found them netted in their cots like birds among cherries and raspberries, still making up stories about some little bit of rubbish-__omething they heard, something they had picked up in the garden. They had all their little treasures. . . And so she went down and said to her husband, Why must they grow up and lose it all? Never will they be so happy again. And he was angry. Why take such a gloomy view of life? he said. It is not sensible. For it was odd; and he believed it to be true; that with all his gloom and desperation he was happier, more hopeful on the whole, than she was. Less exposed to human worries___erhaps that was it. He had always his work to fall back on.

Every child should be nurture with great love. The feeling of great love promotes wellness and potential for greatness.

Mothers observe all, absorb all, give all, forgive all, offer all, suffer all, feel all, heal all, hope for all, pray for all.But most o

In the middle of a grocery store, two children were horsing around (one holding the other in a headlock) when the mother turned abruptly to give them a stern repr

Not a few millions of parents strongly hope that their own children will step in by instantly becoming their own parents_ foster parents, if and when the parents reach their second childhood.

Become a parent. Lose your autonomy, but gain the wondrous superpower of The Magic Kiss that instantly dries tears and makes the pain of boo-boos disappear.

John Quincy Adams, denying his sons permission to come home for college holidays for under-performance: "I would feel nothing but sorrow and shame at your presence.

Teach them the quiet words of kindness, to live beyond themselves. Urge them toward excellence, drive them toward gentleness, pull them deep into yourself, pull them upward toward manhood, but softly like an angel arranging clouds. Let your spirit move through them softly.