“Your life is defined by your fatherly and motherly desire and duty to give your children the best: a loving home, an upbringing, a healthy and positive start on the road of life, now and for eternity. Above all, through baptism you make it possible for your children to become God’s beloved sons and daughters, mystically united with Christ, incorporated […]
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“The family seems to have two predominant functions: to provide warmth and love in time of need and to drive each other insane.” – Donald G. Smith
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“To maintain a joyful family requires much from both the parents and the children. Each member of the family has to become, in a special way, the servant of the others.” ― Pope John Paul II
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“We need to take a leap of the imagination and envision nations as the best kinds of families: the democratic ones we are trying to create in our own lives. A hierarchical family must be changed anyway if we are to stop producing leaders whose unexamined early lives are then played out on a national and international stage—-Changing the way […]
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“We spend the first twelve months of our children’s lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve years telling them to sit down and shut up.” – Phyllis Diller
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“Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he’s buying.” – Fran Lebowitz
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“Don’t worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.” – Robert Fulghum
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“You don’t really understand human nature unless you know why a child on a merry-go-round will wave at his parents every time around — and why his parents will always wave back.” – William D. Tammeus
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“You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.” – Franklin P. Jones
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“The world talks to the mind. Parents speak more intimately, they talk to the heart.” – Haim Ginott
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