Suddenly we have a baby who poops and cries, and we are trying to calm, clean up, and pin things together all at once. Then as fast as we learn to co….

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

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….

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..

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..

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, ….

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

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….

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

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

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

Whenever the child is given the notion that he needs to be entertained, learning comes almost to a halt..

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 ….

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….

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 we view our children as stupid, naughty, disturbed, or guilty of their misdeeds, they will learn to behold themselves as foolish, faulty, or shame….

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….