“The biggest test for parents is not how they parent, but how the respond to disorder and unpredictability.”
“The trouble with child training is that parents teach their children not how to behave, but how not to behave.”
“Our parents were a test tube and a turkey baster.”
“No matter how much and how often - 'things' will never compensate for loss or absence...no matter how guilty a parent feels.”
“But who could teach daughters how to fly? Parents were by definition earthbound, grub eaters, feet in their own coffins, by dint of being parents.”
“There is no knowing how or why dread comes on a parent. Of course, many times apprehension arises when there is no reason for it at all. And it comes most often to the parents of only children, parents who have indulged in black dreams of loss. ”