Family

"The world talks to the mind. Parents speak more intimately, they talk to the heart."             - Haim Ginott ...

"Don’t worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you." - Robert Fulghum ...

“Listen earnestly to anything your children want to tell you, no matter what. If you don't listen eagerly to the little stuff when they are little, they won't tell you the big stuff when they are big, because to them ...

"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 ...

"Friends will come and go but family remains forever." ...

“You can learn many things from children.  How much patience you have, for instance.” - Franklin P. Jones ...

"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, ...

"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." ...

"Children are messengers to us from a world we once deeply knew." - Alice Miller ...

"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 ...