Franklin P. Jones Quote – Patience
“You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.” – Franklin P. Jones
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Pope John Paul II Quote – Domestic Church
“Catholic parents must learn to form their family as a “domestic church,” a church in the home as it were, where God is honored, his law is respected, prayer is a normal event, virtue is transmitted by word and example, and everyone shares the hopes, the problems and sufferings of everyone else. All this is not to advocate a return […]
Read moreBrian Koffman Quote – Shatter My Ego
“I spent a week at a Buddhist monastic retreat, where I sat silently for hours at a time in an uncomfortable position trying to shatter my ego. Why bother? Two minutes with my wife and kids does the same thing.” – Brian Koffman
Read moreAlice Miller Quote – Children Are Messengers
“Children are messengers to us from a world we once deeply knew.” – Alice Miller
Read moreDonald G. Smith Quote – The Two Functions of Family
“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
Read moreWilliam D. Tammeus Quote – Human Nature
“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
Read moreFran Lebowitz Quote – Only If He’s Buying
“Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he’s buying.” – Fran Lebowitz
Read moreGloria Steinem Quote – The Personal Is Political
“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 […]
Read moreCharles Dickens Quote – Family
“Family not only need to consist of merely those whom we share blood but also for those whom we’d give blood.” – Charles Dickens
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