#pare

Author has developed a routine of daily emotional debriefing with his kids as he tucks them in at night. To encourage the habit of keeping uncluttered, open heart, he starts with basic questions asking whether anyone has hurt them or made them angry to help them process at an age-appropriate depth. As they mature, he will add questions. ↗

— Andy Stanley

#open-heart #parenting #age

If you can pick the baby up without him squirting our of your hands like a bar of soap in the shower, he's not oiled up enough. ↗

— James Lileks

#parenting #age

It made me alive to the fact that the most important thing sometimes is what isn't said - to prepare for moments of revelation that can be read entirely on actors' faces without dialogue. ↗

— Robert Towne

#dialogue #entirely #faces #fact #important

Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over. ↗

— Octavia Butler

#art #being #destiny #friend #go

*marissa tries to get her single, working mother's attention by suggesting something outrageous, to which mom replies:* 'You're a smart girl. Use your head and avoid any guy who reminds you of your father. ↗

— Camille Noe Pagán

#fathers #humor #mothers #parenting #art

Being a mother is an attitude, not a biological relation. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

#mother #motherhood #mothering #parenting #attitude

All things are ready, if our mind be so. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#preparation #preparedness #readiness #attitude

Why children?' he asked. 'Why always children? For love to end where it begins is far more beautiful, and Nature knows it. ↗

— E.M. Forster

#homosexuality #love #nature #parenting #sterility

Things come to you in life when you're prepared for them, when you're ready for them. ↗