You have to live your life according to what comforts you, not what the rest of your family thinks you ought to be doing.

We flatter those we scarcely know, We please the fleeting guest, And deal full many a thoughtless blow To those who love us best.

Let your children go if you want to keep them.

Being a grownup means assuming responsibility for yourself, for your children, and-here's the big curve-for your parents.

Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go by any rules. They're not like aches or wounds; they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material.

Cleaning your house while your children are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

Whatever you do to your child's body, you are doing to your child's mind too.

The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.

Family ... the we of me.

Bringing up a family should be an adventure, not an anxious discipline in which everybody is constantly graded for performance.