Polly Berrien Berends

Everything that happens to you is your teacher. The secret is to learn to sit at the feet of your own life and be taught by it. Polly B. Berends ↗

— Polly Berrien Berends

#self-help #inspirational

Parenthood always comes as a shock. Postpartum blues? Postpartum panic is more like it. We set out to have a baby; what we get is a total take-over of our lives. ↗

— Polly Berrien Berends

#baby #blues #comes #get #like

My list of things I never pictured myself saying when I pictured myself as a parent has grown over the years. ↗

— Polly Berrien Berends

#i #list #myself #never #over

The gain is not the having of children; it is the discovery of love and how to be loving. ↗

— Polly Berrien Berends

#discovery #gain #having #how #love

Most of us would do more for our babies than we have ever been willing to do for anyone, even ourselves. ↗

— Polly Berrien Berends

#babies #been #even #ever #more

We can see that the baby is as much an instrument of nourishment for us as we are for him. ↗

— Polly Berrien Berends

#him #instrument #much #nourishment #see

A sense of worthiness is a child's most important need. ↗

— Polly Berrien Berends

#important #most #need #sense #worthiness