Parenting is the most important job on the planet next to keeping Gary Busey off the nation's highways.
We criticize mothers for closeness. We criticize fathers for distance. How many of us have expected less from our fathers and appreciated what they gave us more? How many of us always let them off the hook?
I'm torn about late parenting. I believe people should spend their twenties living and having fun and not having any regrets later. I also think people in their thirties generally make better parents but so many of my friends are having trouble - mys...
The thing about parenting rules is there aren't any. That's what makes it so difficult.
Giving kids whatever they ask for is disastrous parenting. There's no sense of something earned. I'm sorry, but when you're 12, you don't need a new cell phone every few months just because a new one comes out.
I think we've moved to thinking of parenting and pregnancy as something in which you should lose yourself.
The basic idea that incentives can be used to motivate behavior is a powerful one. It works for employees, and it has a clear place in parenting, as anyone who has tried to potty-train a recalcitrant toddler with sticker rewards knows.
Don't reward bad behavior. It is one of the first rules of parenting. During the financial cataclysm of 2008, we said it differently. When we bailed out banks that had created their own misfortune, we called it a 'moral hazard,' because the bailout a...
I'm trying to break any chain of negative parenting that I might have survived.
No, I've never wanted kids. But I do read about parenting a lot.
Having children with someone is the real bond.
A baby is born with a need to be loved - and never outgrows it.
The relation between parents and children is essentially based on teaching.
Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted.
Many people think that discipline is the essence of parenting. But that isn't parenting. Parenting is not telling your child what to do when he or she misbehaves. Parenting is providing the conditions in which a child can realize his or her full huma...
There's no handbook for parenting. So you walk a very fine line as a parent because you are civilizing these raw things. They will tip the coffee over and finger-paint on the table. At some point, you have to say, 'We're gonna have to clean that up b...
Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.
I feel sure that unborn babies pick their parents.
Always kiss your children goodnight, even if they're already asleep.
A mother who is really a mother is never free.
The parenting bit is much harder than the acting bit. You just never know what to do.
