Quotes About Bonding

The child who feels your respect during silences is nourished more than the child who is constantly fussed and chattered over.

You can sit and meditate while your baby cries himself to sleep. Or you can go to him and share his tears, and find your Self.

When you go to the movies with your whole family, it's a different experience. For some reason, it's something that you're all doing together and you take away something special in that.

I was the oldest of the children in my family. I had to do a lot of diaper-changing and lunch-making. I was taking my little sister to ballet, picking up my brother, sort of being a super-nanny.

I had just lost my dad and I remembered all the songs we used to go and hear at concerts, and the records around the house and sometimes we'd play together.

Where friendship blooms, life is reborn.

Do you know what frees one from this captivity? It is every deep serious affection. Being friends, being brothers, love, these open the prison by supreme power, by some magic force. Where sympathy is renewed, life is restored.

Every word, facial expression, gesture, or action on the part of a parent gives the child some message about self-worth. It is sad that so many parents don't realize what messages they are sending.

Elles arrivent à hauteur de la camionnette. Du coin de l'Å"il, Nadine capte que Manu sourit méchamment. Elle prend sa main dans la sienne, elle a honte de son geste en même temps qu'elle le fait. Sauf que Manu mélange tout de suite ses doigts aux siens, et tient sa paume serrée à en faire péter les articulations. Nouées, crispées l'une dans l'autre. Invincibles, même si elles n'ont pas une seule chance.

The talent of making friends is not equal to the talent of doing without them.

The nasty weatherpulls people together.

struggled to get down to play with this new friend, but Ethan held me tight.

I was curled up on the floor, with Felix the kitty sleeping up against me. I'd given up trying to shove him away; Felix apparently thought I was his mother, which was insulting, but he was a cat and therefore, in my opinion, completely brainless.

By the time we got home, Grandma would be cooking breakfast, and Grandpa always slipped me something under the table—bacon, ham, a piece of toast. I learned to chew silently so that Grandma wouldn't say, "Are you feeding the dog again?" The tone in her voice when I picked up the word "dog" suggested to me that Grandpa and I needed to keep the whole operation quiet.

Bryan threw the ball to Dad. Dad threw it back. Bryan swung the stick again. He hit the ball! Now we were really playing. The ball sailed toward the fence. I ran after it. The goslings ran after me. And then something amazing happened. Something I had never seen before. Brewster ran. He heaved himself up and lumbered across the yard. He wanted the ball! It hit the fence and bounced off, right at him, and he scooped it up!

supposed to stay in a box with a bunch of baby birds called goslings. I nudged a few of them aside and lay down and at once they were huddled all around me, trying to cuddle right up to my nose. I was worried that if I yawned they might try to climb into my mouth!

My mother came over to give the new dog a good sniff. Daisy held still and then did the same back. She wasn't shy with Rocky or me, either. When we came over, Daisy stuck her nose down to be sniffed, and even flopped down so we could wrestle with her. I liked Daisy, I decided. Wrestling was even more fun than chasing. But when Jennifer came outside with bowls of food and water, Daisy waited until Jennifer was far away before she bolted over to the food and devoured it in three gulps.

The biggest opportunity one can get in life, it is a chance to make friends!

Christmas works like glue, it keeps us all sticking together.

Reading is one of the best ways to bond with your child. Bond this Christmas with "It's Not About You, Mr. Santa Claus

The computer is the new fireplace, everyone in the family gathers around the digital hearth for warmth.

When you actually make a new friend, and you make music and laugh really hard together, that can give you a lot of confidence and nourishment and encouragement.

Every year, my boys and I create new cool gift wrap paper. We hand paint the design and come up with interesting ways to wrap each gift.

I grew up watching Monday Night Football with Howard Cosell and the other guys with my dad.