You love your child for who the child is, not as an extension of your identity or as an example of your good parenting or even as a companion.

A yummy mummy is a dedicated and loving mom who embodies a healthy lifestyle while retaining a sense of the person she was before having kids.

Kids took a fathomless amount of time and energy...And they took it first. They had right of first refusal on everything you had to offer. p220

The best parenting strives to educate children in how to live -- enthusiastically, compassionately, without greed, striving for a better world.

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

Listening to our kids with an open heart & mind is the strongest way to build a relationship with them - especially when they're wrong.

As someone very sagely said during the parricide trials of the Menendez Brothers: anytime your kids kill you, you are at least partly to blame.

If you are a parent, open doors to unknown directions to the child so he can explore. Don't make him afraid of the unknown,give him support.

The parent must always self-parent first, self-preach before child-teach, because who can bring peace unless they’ve held their own peace?

Think of instinct as an unscientific, unquantifiable tool that can be used along with more concrete evaluations to make a well-rounded decision.

Unhappiness in a child accumulates because he sees no end to the dark tunnel. The thirteen weeks of a term might just as well be thirteen years.

Leave your pride, ego, and narcissism somewhere else. Reactions from those parts of you will reinforce your children's most primitive fears.

No matter how long the preparation, you will never feel ready to write an exam, to start a business, to be parent or even to die. Just go for it.

As parents we have a tendency to overprotect; it's okay to try and show them all positives but we cannot forget that the real world has teeth

For a child, it is in the simplicity of play that the complexity of life is sorted like puzzle pieces joined together to make sense of the world.