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

Guilt is the most destructive of all emotions. It mourns what has been while playing no part in what may be, now or in the future.

Kids haven't changed much, but parents seem increasingly unhappy with the child raising phase of their lives.

Loving a baby is a circular business, a kind of feedback loop. The more you give the more you get and the more you get the more you feel like giving.

Children do not need superhuman, perfect parents. They have always managed with good enough parents: the parents they happened to have.

You know that your toddler needed love and approval but he often seemed not to care whether he got it or not and never seemed to know how to earn it. Your pre-school child is positively asking you to tell him what does and does not earn approval, so he is ready to learn any social refinement of being human which you will teach him....He knows now that he wants your love and he has learned how to ask for it.

A preschool child does not emerge from your toddler on a given date or birthday. He becomes a child when he ceases to be a wayward, confusing, unpredictable and often balky person-in-the- making, and becomes a comparatively cooperative, eager-and-easy-to-please real human being--at least 60 per cent of the time.