23 Aug
There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
20 Jul
I’d give all wealth that years have piled,
The slow result of Life’s decay,
To be once more a little child
For one bright summer day.
~Lewis Carroll, “Solitude”
21 Jun
There’s something like a line of gold thread running through a man’s words when he talks to his daughter, and gradually over the years it gets to be long enough for you to pick up in your hands and weave into a cloth that feels like love itself.
John Gregory Brown
25 Apr
A two-year old is kind of like having a blender, but you don’t have a top for it.
Jerry Seinfeld
18 Apr
Every child born into the world is a new thought of God, an ever fresh and radiant possibility.
Kate Douglas Wiggin
20 Jan
The kind of man who thinks that helping with the dishes is beneath him will also think that helping with the baby is beneath him, and then he certainly is not going to be a very successful father
Eleanor Roosevelt
27 Dec
In the United States today, there is a pervasive tendency to treat children as adults, and adults as children. The options of children are thus steadily expanded, while those of adults are progressively constricted. The result is unruly children and childish adults.
Thomas Szasz
(so true right now)
24 Dec
I am not alone at all, I thought. I was never alone at all. And that, of course, is the message of Christmas. We are never alone. Not when the night is darkest, the wind coldest, the world seemingly most indifferent. For this is still the time God chooses.
Taylor Caldwell
19 Dec
We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
09 Dec
We like to think we’re so smart, that we have all the answers. And we want to pass that on to our children. But if you scratch beneath the surface, you won’t have to dig deep to find the kid you were, which is why it’s kind of crazy that we’re raising kids of our own. I guess that’s the real circle of life. Your parents faked their way through it. You fake your way through it. And you just hope you didn’t raise a serial killer.
Phil on Modern Family
