If you have people who treat you badly in your life, they will be a human shield against people who will treat you well. If that’s not true then we should apply it to marriage and start saying to woman who are being put down or beaten, “you gotta...
Embrace your beautiful mess of a life with your child. No matter how hard it gets, do not disengage... Do something—anything—to connect with and guide your child today. Parenting is an adventure of the greatest significance. It is your legacy." -...
Single parents - both women and men - can play as critical a role as the traditional two-parent family, and gay and lesbian parents can, and do, raise happy, resilient children. When it comes to family life, form is not merely as important as content...
A nutritive centre, anatomically considered, is merely a cell, the nucleus of which is the permanent source of successive broods of young cells, which from time to time fill the cavity of their parent, and carrying with them the cell wall of the pare...
I believe one of the most sacrificial acts of love adoptive parents can do is to give up their preconceptions and agendas about what their child's views "should" be and be open to hear the conflicting emotions and thoughts their child often experienc...
Who we are and how we engage with the world are much stronger predictors of how our children will do than what we know about parenting.
It may be that psychologists are off-base in their preoccupation with children’s need to feel that their father or some other parent loves them. It also seems valid to consider the child’s desire to feel that a parent actually likes them, as love...
God is even in a single parent household.
Your best is good enough.
My own parents were very un-neurotic, so I never thought that I had to change enormously in order to become a parent.
I don't think I'd be a very good parent. I'd be too honest.
My parents are very good parents and have already said that they will look after me until the end of my skating career.
The government cannot overcome bad parenting. What our leaders can do is publicly condemn irresponsible parental behavior in vivid terms.
My parents are aging and there are difficult issues. It's strange to have children at the beginning of life and parents nearing the end.
In peace, children inter their parents; war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children.
All Asian parents are into your children having a respectable, decent stable job. Acting was unimaginable to my parents.
Being a parent is not a reasonable thing. It is a very hard thing. I am a parent and I know.
My parents were the traditional Filipino parents who didn't talk about money around the dinner table.
If you look at any superior athlete, you will find a strong parental influence. Parents introduce their children to a sport, and then they support them.
To be honest, I know that a lot of Asian parents are secretly shocked and horrified by many aspects of Western parenting.
Loving and parenting a dog as a single parent can create all sorts of new and unusual problems, but also new sources of joy.
