“If your parents never had children, chances are you won’t either.”

“If your parents didn’t have any children, there is a good chance that you won’t have any.”

“You’re always a kid around your parents… Unless they’re acting like children. Then you don’t get the chance.”

“Children are our second chance to have a great parent-child relationship.”

“People ask me how it happens that my children are all so promptly obedient and so happy. As if it chanced that some parents have such children or chanced that some have not! I am afraid it is only too true, as someone has remarked, that "this is the age of obedient parents!" What then will be the future of their children? How can they yield to God who have never been taught to yield to human authority? And how well fitted will they be to rule their own households who have never learned to rule themselves?”

“Talking to the parents of older kids was helpful for me, since the parents of kids the same age as yours won't admit how horrible their children are. ... you can either practice being right or practice being kind. Screaming in the car helped. [p. 94]”