I think of discipline as the continual everyday process of helping a child learn self-discipline.

I'm proud of you for the times you came in second, or third, or fourth, but what you did was the best you have ever done

How many times have you noticed that it's the little quiet moments in the midst of life that seem to give the rest extra-special meaning?

I feel the greatest gift we can give to anybody is the gift of our honest self.

When we choose to be parents, we accept another human being as part of ourselves, and a large part of our emotional selves will stay with that person as long as we live. From that time on, there will be another person on this earth whose orbit around us will affect us as surely as the moon affects the tides, and affect us in some ways more deeply than anyone else can. Our children are extensions of ourselves.

As different as we are from one another, as unique as each one of us is, we are much more the same than we are different. That may be the most essential message of all, as we help our children grow toward being caring, compassionate, and charitable adults.

My hunch is that if we allow ourselves to give who we really are to the children in our care, we will in some way inspire cartwheels in their hearts.