parenthood

Frankie's chief virtue in my book is the way he talks about his kids.

Lee was a born pedagogue, never happier than when his children were learning to do something the right way. It is a testament to Lee's affection and patience that his children did not rebel. In fact, they appear to have thrived.

A dash of humor will only add intense gravity to the proceedings, even as a flash of lightning only makes midnight dreariness all the more impressive.

I'm two days away from day after tomorrowCounting the hours to my upcoming sorrow Suddenly I lookinto the eyes of my childThen all sadness goneas I smile the way she smiled

He was not at all what is called __ character_. He was an innocent, affable old man who had somehow preserved his good humor _ much more than that, a mysterious and tranquil joy _ throughout a life which to all outward observation had been overloaded with misfortune. He had like many another been born in full sunlight and lived to see night fall.

He was fortified by a memory which kept only the good things and rejected the ill. Despite his sorrows, he had had a fair share of joys and these were ever fresh and accessible.

What could make a man stands taller than a newborn son?

Kids need to find someone going the same direction by the same methodology _ and try not to fall in love beforehand. _ Toby Willis

There are no verdicts to childhood, only consequences, and the bright freight of memory.

Excitement about things became a habit, a part of my personality, and the expectation that I should enjoy new experiences often engendered the enjoyment itself.

If you are a good parent, please continue to be a good one. But if you are bad parent, today is a great new beginning for you to start a great new chapter of parenthood.

Dust is the parent of a star!

Parenthood doesn__ improve one__ character, it exposes it.

Instead of treating your child like how you were treated. Treat them with the same love and attention you wanted from your parents while growing up.

PARENTHOOD is journey of being driven to the BRINK of INSANITY and BACK...Like a YO YO!!

You are almost never cool to your children.

In retrospect, it seems obvious that my research about parenting was also a means to subdue my anxieties about becoming a parent.... I grew up afraid of illness and disability, inclined to avert my gaze from anyone who was too different _ despite all the ways I knew myself to be different. This book helped me kill that bigoted impulse, which I had always known to be ugly. The obvious melancholy in the stories I heard should, perhaps, have made me shy away from paternity, but it had the opposite effect.

The greatest lessons I learned from my father didn't come from lectures or discipline or even time spent together. What has stuck with me is his example. From watching, I chose whether to be or not to be like him.