Intimacy requires an ability to both merge and be separate, to come together and be apart, like oscillating on a giant swing from oneness to separate…

- Charlotte Sophia Kasl

It may comfort you to know that if your child reaches the age of eleven or twelve and you have a good bond or relationship, no matter how dramatic ad…

- Charlotte Sophia Kasl

The planet earth has a life span of eight billion years, give or take a few million. People have been around for approximately forty thousand years-a…

- Charlotte Sophia Kasl

Listen to your beliefs, think about how you learned them, and realize that they are not genetic, nor are they the "only way." You are free to acquir…

- Charlotte Sophia Kasl

My father once told me of a trick question he used in a college class on forest fire control. If there was a fire coming from a certain direction an…

- Charlotte Sophia Kasl

You can make lots of mistakes, but if you give children avenues for creativity and joy, they will have resources to carry them through. For example, …

- Charlotte Sophia Kasl

One of the important things to learn about parenting is that the more you worry about a child, the less the child will worry abouthim- or herself....…

- Charlotte Sophia Kasl

One of my fondest memories from childhood is of looking at a globe with my father. "What's the biggest country?" he'd ask me and my sister. We'd spin…

- Charlotte Sophia Kasl

If I could summarize my suggestions to parents over the past twenty-five years it would be: worry less, criticize less, preach less, listen more, hav…

- Charlotte Sophia Kasl