“A parent always tries to protect his child's world from the harsh reality of adulthood. - Busch”

“Hope was a fragile flicker that he wanted to cup with both hands to protect against the harsh winds of reality.”

“Training moments occur when both parents and children do their jobs. The parent's job is to make the rule. The child's job is to break the rule. The parent then corrects and disciplines. The child breaks the rule again, and the parent manages the consequences and empathy that then turn the rule into reality and internal structure for the child.”

“for not an orphan in the wide world can be so deserted as the child who is an outcast from a living parent's love.”

“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.”

“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”