Everyone likes to think that he has done reasonably well in life so that it comes as a shock to find our children believing differently. The temptation is to tune them out it takes much more courage to listen.
A soldier's life revolves around his mail. Like many others, I've been able to follow my kid's progress from the day he was born until now he is able to walk and talk a little, and although I have never seen him I know him...
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Bill Mauldin
It takes a society to raise a generation.
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David Berman
Being a parent is dirty and scary and beautiful and hard and miraculous and exhausting and thankless and joyful and frustrating all at once. It’s everything. (Confessions of a Scary Mommy, Gallery Books 2012).
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Jill Smokler
In parenting patience is the greatest virtue.
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Abhijit Naskar
Console the failure, but nurture the hunger.
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Bryan Cranston
