Families need families. Parents need to be parented. Grandparents, aunts, and uncles are back in fashion because they are necessary. Stresses on many families are out of proportion to anything two parents can handle.

Every time you give a parent a sense of success or of empowerment, you're offering it to the baby indirectly. Because every time a parent looks at that baby and says 'Oh, you're so wonderful,' that baby just bursts with feeling good about themselves.

You learn more from your mistakes than you do from your successes.

Parents don't make mistakes because they don't care, but because they care so deeply.

Attachment to a baby is a long-term process, not a single, magical moment. The opportunity for bonding at birth may be compared to falling in love - staying in love takes longer and demands more work.

A newborn already has nine months of experience when she is born.

A grandchild is a miracle, but a renewed relationship with your own children is even a greater one.