Quotes About Connection

Love is giving your kids your undivided attention and time

It is my pleasure that my children are free and happy, and unrestrained by parental tyranny. Love is the chain whereby to bind a child to its parents.

~I try to call my mother, Betty, with more regularity because I think, What if Hazel didn't call me for two weeks? I'm able to see her mothering now from a different vantage point.~

Parenting tip: complement your child on something well done when they don't think you are looking!

~[My son] is at that age now where he's so loving and says the sweetest things to me. Of course, I still get karate chops and all those other sort of things, too.~

~Wyatt [my adopted son] is definitely all mine. Little souls find their way to you whether they're from your womb or someone else's.~

For a woman, a son offers the best chance to know the mysterious male existence.

The best gift is giving from your heart

Communicating w/kids, its a 2 way street, sometimes they just need us to be there for them & listen.

He sounded absolutely miserable. "Are you ever going to speak to me?

Show as much interest in what your children tell you as they have in telling you.

A family portrait is only complete with love to fill it's frame.

The hardest part about parenting is when I have to be The Dad--aka the Fun-Sucker--as opposed to being a friend.

I think parenting actually makes you lose pieces of your soul again, because they go off, into your children. Or, I mean, I am so fragmented, and I'm such a spacey person.

As a father, we need to actively listen.

Little things spell LOVE. Beware the spouse or marriage that places a premium on expensive gifts and 'toys.

A marvelous feeling -- that you love someone deeply -- and in turn, that person loves you back so sincerely.

But I was beginning to feel like it all fit together, the same way everything in the bowl ends up in the bisquits, as Amma would say.

I wasn't anything special as a father. But I loved them and they knew it.

You'll never be hurt as much by being open as you have been remaining closed.

You rock a sobbing child without wondering if today's world is passing you by, because you know you hold tomorrow in your arms.

FAMILY. The ties that bind. The cement that builds character, strength of purpose, mutual respect, values.

We need more light about each other. Light creates understanding, understanding creates love, love creates patience, and patience creates unity.

Freindshipp is beyond all relations of flesh and blood, because it is less materiall.