312 quotes found
“Many parents have discovered, perhaps with some guilt, that they can read a story to a child while thinking of something else.”
“Why shall we talk? To spread positive ambiance in the house, and to stimulate the hearty feelings, and to achieve a perceptible psychological connection between family members.”
“Why shall we talk?To depend on the conversation style as a primary language of effectiveness on the other person, in a way that respects the feelings without hurting the human soul dignity, or humi...”
“Why shall we talk?To follow the logical method in handling the problems and the other family members points of views, with quitting the pressure style, verbal violence, and actual violence towards ...”
“Why shall we talk?To provide the right amount of clarity between family members in their home environment, and to spread the ambiance of honesty and trust between them on the way that uplifts the v...”
“When is the impulse to help an adult child a wise intervention and when is it self-serving and prying? I have an uneasy feeling I will have to carry the question around for a while like some gratin...”
“The AI told her not long ago that her "Why?" period might have been the shortest on record - because Mum and Dad answered every "Why?" in detail AND made sure she understood, so she wouldn't ask th...”
“My advice is to make a point of apologizing to your child about something at least twice a month. Why twice a month? I don't know. It sounds about right to me. (Almost all the specific advice in pa...”
“Jake thanked God he had a son to put to bed when he knew somewhere there was a family, right now, waiting for someone who would never come home.”
“We begin to understand that to coparent is to one day look up and notice that you are on a roller coaster with another human being. You are in the same car, strapped down side by side and you can n...”
“Don't ever let another man call your child daddy.”
“Theres nothing wrong with an adult being a child, except whining like one.”
“Oh, man, the nursery, Dominic said, what a hell-hole. If I had kids Id give them the nicest room in the house.You do have kids, his kid said.Oh, yeah, well, right, you know what I mean.”
“This is what parenting involved: hard decisions. She was his mother, she reminded herself. He didn't have to like her.”
“Such a tough life. This is not the easy way." "No," Penn agreed, "but I'm not sure easy is what I want for the kids anyway." She looked up at him. "Why the hell not?" "I mean, if we could have ever...”
“Six o'clock means very little to a three-year-old. It works better to say "after dinner," or "as soon as the baby takes her morning nap.”
“If your child can't resist throwing gravel in the park, in spite of your efforts to offer tempting alternatives, you can say, "I'm taking you home now. I don't want anyone to get hit by a rock, eve...”
“The beauty of problem-solving is that, unlike punishment, it offers endless possibilities. If you're committed to punishment and your child continues to misbehave, all you can do is punish more sev...”
“So much time and energy, so much love and learning had gone into those long years of motherhood, and now, between a morning and a morningor so it feltthey were over. It seemed that mothers of daugh...”
“Jack, Im just telling you, if it turns out. . .I want you to shoot me.Dee"Im not kidding, not exaggerating, just telling you that I do not have it in me to handle that.You have a daughter, too. You...”
