Quotes About Family

we find that the best predictor of your current mental health is your current "relational health," or connectedness. This connectedness is fueled by two things: the basic capabilities you've developed to form and maintain relationships, and the relational "opportunities" you have in your family, neighborhood, school, and so forth.

In a multifamily, multigenerational environment, the continuous social interactions provide a rich source of regulation, reward, and learning.

relationships in modern society. In our work, we find that the best predictor of your current mental health is your current "relational health," or connectedness. This connectedness is fueled by two things: the basic capabilities you've developed to form and maintain relationships, and the relational "opportunities" you have in your family, neighborhood, school, and so forth.

So when a single mom is living on a limited income, trying to manage four children, trying to be mother and father, and she feels overwhelmed or feels like it's impossible to do it all—it's because it is impossible.

My grandmother Hattie Mae's home was a place where children were seen and not heard.

So much so that on the night Henry was electrocuted, his last words were that all of his life, he'd gotten it wrong. His parents had taught him wrong, that Black people were the enemy. And he'd had to come to death row to learn what love was.

My father, Vernon, used to tell me I would never have been born if he hadn't been curious about what was underneath my mother's pink poodle skirt.

father didn't even know about me until my mother sent him a birth announcement and asked for money to buy baby clothes.

A child raised with love wants to make those around him happy because he sees that his happiness makes them happy.

Jung called this practice counterbalancing one-sidedness. Our lives become too tilted toward one aspect of our identity and too tilted away from others. We're all familiar with these scenarios. We become so obsessed with our work we neglect our family; we become so consumed with caring for children we overlook ourselves; we become so focused on serving others we ignore our loved ones. The more purely one thing we are, the more in danger we are of overlooking other things.

The most healthful narrative," he continued, "is the third one." It's called the oscillating family narrative. We've had ups and downs in our family. Your grandfather was vice president of the bank, but his house burned down. Your aunt was the first girl to go to college, but she got breast cancer. Children who know that lives take all different shapes are much better equipped to face life's inevitable disruptions.

A recent wave of research shows that children who eat dinner with their families are less likely to drink, smoke, do drugs, get pregnant, commit suicide, and develop eating disorders. Additional research found that children who enjoy family meals have larger vocabularies, better manners, healthier diets, and higher self-esteem.

If you're asking your kids to exercise, then you better do it, too. Practice what you preach.

Parenthood is a lot easier to get into than out of.

Under the sky, under the heavens there is but one family.

A mother's love protects a child with far greater shield than armor.

Mother, you've given me even more than you know," he said. "I feel revived. That you'd never forgotten me was always my fondest hope. Knowing it's true is a boon of incalculable value. Thank you.

Salvation is a family affair.

I always wanted my music to influence the life you were living emotionally - with your family, your lover, your wife, and, at a certain point, with your children.

We honor our parents by carrying their best forward and laying the rest down. By fighting and taming the demons that laid them low and now reside in us.

We honor our parents by not accepting as the final equation the most troubling characteristics of our relationship. I decided between my father and me that the sum of our troubles would not be the summation of our lives together. In analysis, you work to turn the ghosts that haunt you into ancestors who accompany you. That takes hard work and a lot of love, but it's the way we lessen the burdens our children have to carry.

Children bring with them grace, patience, transcendence, second chances, rebirth and a reawakening of the love that's in your heart and present in your home. They are God giving you another shot. My

Luckily for parents, children have great resilience and a generous ability to forgive.

Sherrif when the man pulls that switch, Sir And snaps my poor head back, You make sure my pretty baby Is sittin' right there on my lap.