Parental Inspiration

Deciding to Have a Child

2009-09-18T06:12:00.000-07:00

Making the decision to have a child -- it's momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body. ~ELIZABETH STONE

Adolescents and Adults

2009-04-11T14:17:00.001-07:00

Adolescents are not monsters. They are just people trying to make it among the adults in the world, who are probably not so sure themselves. VIRGINIA SATIR

True Strength

2009-01-07T19:19:00.000-08:00

Anyone can give up, it's the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when everyone else would understand if you fell apart, that's true strength. ANONYMOUS

Mother / Father

2008-12-13T03:07:00.002-08:00

Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father. GLORIA STEINEM

Child on a Merry-Go-Round

2008-12-13T03:04:00.000-08:00

You don't really understand human nature unless you know why a child on a merry-go-round will wave at his parents every time around - and why his parents will always wave back. WILLIAM D. TAMMEUS

Diversity, Beauty and Strength...

2008-11-27T10:41:00.000-08:00

It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength. MAYA ANGELOU

Love in Family Life

2008-11-26T04:43:00.000-08:00

In family life, love is the oil that eases friction, the cement that binds closer together, and the music that brings harmony. EVA BURROWS

Parenting

2008-11-23T14:53:00.001-08:00

“No matter how calmly you try to referee, parenting will eventually produce bizarre behavior, and I'm not talking about the kids. Their behavior is always normal.” BILL COSBY

Life and Death

2008-11-19T05:15:00.000-08:00

Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death. ERIK H. ERIKSON

Instant Availability

2008-10-15T04:14:00.000-07:00

Instant availability without continuous presence is probably the best role a mother can play. LOTTE BAILYN

Power

2008-10-13T07:08:00.000-07:00

The values inculcated by status-insecure parents are such that their children learn to put personal success and the acquisition of power above all else... to judge people for their usefulness... to eschew weakness and passivity, to respect authority, and to despise those who have not made the socio-economic grade. Success is equated with social esteem and material advantage, rather than with more spiritual values. NORMAN F. DIXON

Time for Learning and Play

2008-10-12T10:23:00.000-07:00

It is paradoxical that many educators and parents still differentiate between a time for learning and a time for play without seeing the vital connection between them. LEO F. BUSCAGLIA

Love alone is capable of...

2008-10-11T06:50:00.000-07:00

Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves. PIERRE TEILHARD

The Decision to Have a Child

2008-10-10T10:24:00.000-07:00

Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body. ELIZABETH STONE

Hopes & Fears

2008-10-04T14:11:00.000-07:00

The central struggle of parenthood is to let our hopes for our children outweigh our fears. ELLEN GOODMAN

Motherhood

2008-10-04T14:10:00.000-07:00

The world is full of women blindsided by the unceasing demands of motherhood, still flabbergasted by how a job can be terrific and torturous. ANNA QUINDLEN

Worrying About Our Kids

2008-10-04T14:08:00.000-07:00

You know, I think that if parents would spend less time worrying about what their kids watch on TV and more time worrying about what's going on in their kids' lives, this world would be a much better place. TREY PARKER & MATT STONE

Keeper of Dreams

2008-10-04T13:46:00.000-07:00

I believe that [everyone] is the keeper of a dream - and by tuning into one another's secret hopes, we can become better friends, better partners, better parents, and better lovers. OPRAH WINFREY