The word NO, carries a lot more meaning when spoken by a parent who also knows how to say yes.
Joyce MaynardThe big dramas that fascinate me are the quiet ones that happen behind closed doors in so-called ordinary families.
Joyce Maynard[On home births:] In a house where there had been three people, there were now four, although no one had come in the door.
Joyce MaynardIn the event of an oxygen shortage on airplanes, mothers of young children are always reminded to put on their own oxygen mask first, to better assist the children with theirs. The same tactic is necessary on terra firma. There's no way of sustaining our children if we don't first rescue ourselves. I don't call that selfish behavior. I call it love.
Joyce Maynard