As we try to change, we will discover within us a fierce struggle between our loyalty to that battle-scarred victim of his own childhood, our father,…

- Augustus Napier

Parenting is a profoundly reciprocal process: we, the shapers of our children's lives, are also being shaped. As we struggle to beparents, we are for…

- Augustus Napier

Marriage is going to be that happy state in which we get all of the nurturance and care and love and empathy and even good advice that we didn't rece…

- Augustus Napier

We are intensely loyal to our parents. In spite of the pain we experienced at our parent's hands, we cling tenaciously to their views of life; and th…

- Augustus Napier

Even if society dictates that men and women should behave in certain ways, it is fathers and mothers who teach those ways to children not just in the…

- Augustus Napier

The ubiquitous and acutely conscious presence of our adolescents is a major problem, especially since much of their consciousnessseems to be focused …

- Augustus Napier

Not only do our wives need support, but our children need our deep involvement in their lives. If this period [the early years] ofprimitive needs and…

- Augustus Napier

Even if fathers are more benignly helpful, and even if they spend time with us teaching us what they know, rarely do they tell uswhat they feel. They…

- Augustus Napier

This part of being a man, changing the way we parent, happens only when we want it to. It changes because we are determined for itto change; and the …

- Augustus Napier