If you are a parent it helps if you are a grown-up.

When we cannot bear to be alone, it means we do not properly value the only companion we will have from birth to death-ourselves.

It helps parents to feel better if we remind them of our failures with them! And how they turned out just fine despite our imperfections.... We never get over needing nurturing parents. The more we comfort our own adult children, the more they can comfort our grandchildren.

Depression occurs when you are not being yourself. You're probably doing things you don't want to do.

A new baby is like the beginning of all things - wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities.

In all our efforts to provide advantages we have actually produced the busiest, most competitive, highly pressured and over-organized generation of youngsters in our history and possibly the unhappiest.

We all wanted babies - but did any of us want children?