Most people do not receive nearly enough appreciation. How can this be when appreciation is free, easy, and readily available? read more

Most people do not receive nearly enough appreciation. How can this be when appreciation is free, easy, and readily available? All you have to do is speak. Go give some away now.

Children are natural mimics: they act like their parents in spite of every attempt to teach them good manners. -Anonymous.

Children are natural mimics: they act like their parents in spite of every attempt to teach them good manners. -Anonymous.

As adults, we must ask more of our children than they know how to ask of themselves. What can we read more

As adults, we must ask more of our children than they know how to ask of themselves. What can we do to foster their open-hearted hopefulness, engage their need to collaborate, be an incentive to utilize their natural competency and compassion...show them ways they can connect, reach out, weave themselves into the web of relationships that is called community. . -Dawna Markova.

For only as we ourselves, as adults, actually move and have our being in the state of love, can we read more

For only as we ourselves, as adults, actually move and have our being in the state of love, can we be appropriate models and guides for our children. What we are teaches the child far more than what we say, so we must be what we want our children to become. from Teaching Children to Love, introduction. -Joseph Chilton Pearce.

Never underestimate a parent's ability to mortify his child.

Never underestimate a parent's ability to mortify his child.

There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, read more

There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings. -Hodding Carter.

Parents are not quite interested in justice, they are interested in quiet.

Parents are not quite interested in justice, they are interested in quiet.

The character and history of each child may be a new and poetic experience to the parent, if he will read more

The character and history of each child may be a new and poetic experience to the parent, if he will let it. -Margaret Fuller.

Few things are more satisfying than seeing your own children have teenagers of their own. -Doug Larson.

Few things are more satisfying than seeing your own children have teenagers of their own. -Doug Larson.