“There are many times as a parent when you realize that your job is not to be the parent you always imagined you'd be, the parent you always wished you had. Your job is to be the parent your child needs, given the particulars of his or her own life and nature.”

“It’s not the job of the child to make the parent happy. It’s the job of the parent to take care of their own happiness.”

“You don't really understand nature unless you know why a child on a merry-go-round will at his parents each time around - and why his parents will always wave back”

“How old were you when you first realized that your parents were human? That they were not omnipotent, that what they said did not, in fact, go, they had dreams and feelings and scars? Or have you not realized that yet?Do you still call your parents and have a one-sided conversation with them, child to parent, not adult to adult?”

“if you are successpul in life always respect your teacher and parents”

“Always strive to be a better parent to your children than your parents were to you. —DALEEN BATEMAN BARLOW”