Family

"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, ...

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

"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 ...

“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 ...

"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 ...

“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 ...

"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 ...

"If you look deeply into the palm of your hand, you will see your parents and all generations of your ancestors. All of them are alive in this moment. Each is present in your body. You are the continuation of ...