“From their verbal sparring they learn the difference between being clever and being hurtful.”

I was a wonderful parent before I had children.

The personal frustrations that they don’t dare let out on anyone else but a brother or sister,

I was an expert on why everyone else was having problems with theirs. Then I had three of my own.

From their endless rough-housing with each other, they develop speed and agility.

I was a wonderful parent before I had children.

Our job is to let our children know what’s right about them.

Comforters for our todays / Guardians of memories

We put him in touch with his inner reality.

From their struggles to establish dominance over each other, siblings become tougher and more resilient.

And sometimes, from their envy of each other’s special abilities they become inspired to work harder, persist and achieve.

Content in our connectedness / we are brothers and sisters / after all.

No one cares / who is better / who is worse / who has more / who has less.

From the normal irritations of living together, they learn how to assert themselves, defend themselves, compromise.

The whole world will tell them what’s wrong with them–out loud and often.

Take two kids in competition for their parents’ love and attention.

We have another obligation to our children, and that is to affirm their “rightness.”

That you have to do the heavy lifting while you’re here. And when you don’t, well, you suffer the consequences.

The kingdom of God is the true ecology of the human soul.

A person without a shadow should keep out of the sun, that is the only safe and rational plan.

Should the political process not work, there is always the other approach.

Comforters for our todays / Guardians of memories

Woman’s work as a listener is never done. …

Often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

The surest way to get a thing in this life is to be prepared for doing without it, to the exclusion even of hope.