parenting-children

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

She blinked, sat up, and saw Chris in the bathroom doorway. He'd just gotten out the shower. His hair was damp, and he was dressed only in his briefs. The sight of his thin, boyish body - all ribs and elbows and knees - pulled at her heart, for he looked so innocent and vulnerable. He was so small adn fragile that she wondered how she could ever protect him, and renewed fear rose in her.

When woman work outside the home and share breadwinning duties, couples are more likely to stay together. In fact, the risk of divorce reduces by about half when a wife earns half the income and a husband does half the housework.

PARENTHOOD is journey of being driven to the BRINK of INSANITY and BACK...Like a YO YO!!

I had a friend whose family had dinner together every day. The mother would tuck you in at night and make breakfast in the morning. It just seemed so amazing to me.

Embrace your beautiful mess of a life with your child. No matter how hard it gets, do not disengage... Do something__nything__o connect with and guide your child today. Parenting is an adventure of the greatest significance. It is your legacy." - Andy Kerckhoff, from Critical Connection

You must be committed to your children first. Otherwise, they will receive the leftovers.

We honor our kids most when, while we guide or discipline them, we give them this gift of unconditional love by accepting them and respecting them for who they are, first and foremost.

When his parents announced the newest rules to Jamal, he defiantly announced back to them that, as a matter of principle, he would not be "manipulated or forced into complying with a Fascist parenting style.

The first night in the hospital with a snuffling baby girl, I learned that my family was not the only thing that had expanded. There was now a whole new world of opportunities for judgment and self-doubt.

Kids will remember less what we did for them and more how we spoke and reacted to them.

Being a parent is like being a catcher. You gotta handle whatever is thrown your way.

Every parent is an artist, but not every artist is apparent.

Until we accept that our children have much more of a risk of being sexually abused than drowning in a pool, being struck by a car, stricken with cancer, hurt by a vaccination, or diagnosed with ebola, we contribute to a culture of panic and ignorance.

As parents we're meant to help each other out and build each other up.

We are our own children's "perfect" parents, and within us lie all the simple, yet profound qualities of inner perfection.

The metaphor of transformation deepens as we consider how a butterfly needs to struggle for its ability to fly. If the chrysalis is broken by someone in an attempt to help free the butterfly, its wings will be shriveled and immobile.

The soul mate we marry can become an "ex," but the soul mates we have in our children will be ours forever, until the end of our life.