My list of things I never pictured myself saying when I pictured myself as a parent has grown over the years..

Parenthood always comes as a shock. Postpartum blues? Postpartum panic is more like it. We set out to have a baby; what we get is a total take-over o….

A child needs both to be hugged and unhugged. The hug lets her know she is valuable. The unhug lets her know that she is viable. If you're always sho….

The gain is not the having of children; it is the discovery of love and how to be loving..

We can see that the baby is as much an instrument of nourishment to us, as we are for him..

Awareness of having better things to do with their lives is the secret to immunizing our children against false values--whether presented on televisi….

Especially with our first child, we tend to take too much responsibility--both credit and blame--for everything. The more we wantto be good parents, ….

If we allow our one-and-a-half year old to "help" us fold laundry he will learn something about buttons, zippers, snaps, where things go, the physica….

More than what we say or do, the way we are expresses what we think it means to be alive. So the articulate parent is less a telling than a listening….

A sense of worthiness is a child's most important need..

The secret is to learn to sit at the feet of your own life and be taught by it..

Once we begin to appreciate that the apparent destructiveness of the toddler in taking apart a flower or knocking down sand castles is in fact a cons….

The trouble with most problem-solving books for parents is that they start with the idea that the child has a problem. Then they try to tell us how t….

As parents it is well to be aware of the tendency to equate energetic activity with contest. Our children's worth does not dependon their ability to ….

Everything that happens is either a blessing, which is also a lesson, or a lesson which is also a blessing..

We do not have to get our children to learn; only to allow and encourage them in their learning. We do not have to dictate what they should learn; on….

Most of us would do more for our babies than we have ever been willing to do for anyone, even ourselves..

We cannot spare our children the influence of harmful values by turning off the television any more than we can keep them home forever or revamp the ….

If your children see that you are seeking, they will seek-the finding part is up to God..

Never miss an opportunity to allow a child to do something she can and wants to on her own. Sometimes we're in too much of a rush--and she might spil….

The child does not begin to fall until she becomes seriously interested in walking, until she actually begins walking. Falling is thus more an indica….