The small hopes and plans and pleasures of children should be tenderly respected by grown-up people, and never rudely thwarted or ridiculed.

Say what you will, dear sister, we do what we do for the promise of our youth. Yet it is always they who scar beneath the points of daggers.

My father believes with his entire soul that the meek shall inherit the earth. My children will inherit the earth but they will not be meek.

Secure attachment has been linked to a child's ability to successfully recover and prove resilient in the presence of a traumatic event.

A good example is the best gift you can offer to your children. In your absence, your example is present, which means you are present always!

I don't think kids or grown-ups should be so eager to punish "geek" enthusiasm with shaming, even if the enthusiasm is for arcane things.

Children are knives my mother once said They don t mean to but they cut And yet we cling to them don t we we clasp them until the blood flows

Things had improved after he was born. We both loved him with such fervor that it was impossible that some wouldn’t splash back on us.

The world as first seen by the child becomes his lifelong standard of excellent, mindless of the fact he is admiring the ruins of his parents.

Bear in mind, children, that they listen to you because you are kids—not because you are right. That's how our Father listens to us.

She didn't like being twelve. It felt like someplace between who she'd been and who she was about to be. It felt like no place at all.

Children need to know that the things that make them vastly different from one another are the very things that make them beautifully special.

Protecting our kids from sexual abuse is not accomplished in a single conversation, but in ongoing conversations grounded in honesty and trust.

Too often we forget that discipline really means to teach, not to punish. A disciple is a student, not a recipient of behavioural consequences.

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