Becoming responsible adults is no longer a matter of whether children hang up their pajamas or put dirty towels in the hamper, but... whether they care about themselves and others--and whether they see everyday chores as related to how we treat this planet.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The child-rearing years are relatively short in our increased life span. It is hard for young women caught between diapers and for...mulas to believe, but there are years and years of freedom ahead. I regret my impatience to get on with my career. I wish I'd relaxed, allowed myself the luxury of watching the world through my little girl's eyes.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is strange but true that although we may have learned all sorts of important facts while raising our own children, when we beco...me grandparents we still tend to forget a whole lot of things we knew.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If grandparents want to have a meaningful and constructive role, the first lesson they must learn is that becoming a grandparent i...s not having a second chance at parenthood!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Becoming more flexible, open-minded, having a capacity to deal with change is a good thing. But it is far from the whole story. Gr...andparents, in the absence of the social institutions that once demanded civilized behavior, have their work cut out for them. Our grandchildren are hungry for our love and approval, but also for standards being set.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It helps parents to feel better if we remind them of our failures with them! And how they turned out just fine despite our imperfe...ctions.... We never get over needing nurturing parents. The more we comfort our own adult children, the more they can comfort our grandchildren.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Grandparents can be role models about areas that may not be significant to young children directly but that can teach them about p...atience and courage when we are ill, or handicapped by problems of aging. Our attitudes toward retirement, marriage, recreation, even our feelings about death and dying may make much more of an impression than we realize.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In all our efforts to provide "advantages" we have actually produced the busiest, most competitive, highly pressured and over-orga...nized generation of youngsters in our history--and possibly the unhappiest. We seem hell-bent on eliminating much of childhood.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a wo...rld that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its earth to concrete ... babies are almost the only remaining link with nature, with the natural world of living things from which we spring.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »