I'm endlessly fascinated by parenting, marriage, my wife and the ins and outs of marriage.
~I used to think, What if there's an interesting movie and it conflicts with the boys going to a new school for the first time?. . . Well, I didn't anticipate that was going to be about a two-second dilemma. I didn't know the choices would be so easy to make. ~
I stumble all the time parenting my daughter. I ask her for forgiveness all the time and I preach forgiveness to her.
Why are you measuring? This is how you block, delay, hinder, obstruct and deny his place in the life as a father.
We're [parents]) always bluffing, pretending we know best, when most of the time we're just praying we won't screw up too badly.
Parenting cannot just be one size fits all.
Parenting is the most important profession in the world.
Parenting can be established as a time-share job, but mothers are less good "switching off" their parent identity and turning to something else. Many women envy the father's ability to set clear boundaries between home and work, between being an on-duty and an off-duty parent. . . . Women work very hard to maintain a closeness to their child. Father's value intimacy with a child, but often do not know how to work to maintain it.
So, you know, parenting is a very intimate and amazing experience and one of the best experiences of my life.
If you want to move people, it has to be toward a vision that's positive for them, that taps important values, that gets them something they desire and it has to be presented in a compelling way so that they feel inspired to follow.
The most beautiful sight in the world is a little child going confidently down the road of life after you have shown him the way.
We want our children to become who they are- and a developed person is, above all, free. But freedom as we define it doesn't mean doing what you want. Freedom means the ability to make choices that are good for you. It is the power to choose to become what you are capable of becoming, to develop your unique potential by making choices that turn possibility into reality. It is the ability to make choices that actualize you. As often as not, maybe more often than not, this kind of freedom means doing what you do not want, doing what is uncomfortable or tiring or boring or annoying
~Wyatt [my adopted son] is definitely all mine. Little souls find their way to you whether they're from your womb or someone else's. ~
A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone.
But she needs me more than she needs him and I guess being needed is almost as good as being loved. Maybe better.
I think you should be into whatever your kids care about, and fuel that desire. That's good parenting.
Parents, they're strict on you when you're little, and you don't understand why. But as you get older, you understand and you appreciate it.
The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears.
(Cartoon caption:) I never really rallied after the birth of my first child.
Dance. Dance for the joy and breath of childhood. Dance for all children, including that child who is still somewhere entombed beneath the responsibility and skepticism of adulthood. Embrace the moment before it escapes from our grasp. For the only promise of childhood, of any childhood, is that it will someday end. And in the end, we must ask ourselves what we have given our children to take its place. And is it enough?