There's Always Someone Who Is

It Is Our Continuing Love For Our Children That Makes Us Want Them To Become All They Can Be, And Their Continuing Love For Us That Helps Them Accept Healthy Discipline--from Us And Eventually From Themselves.

It Is One Of The Paradoxes Of Parenting, And Often A Painful Paradox, That Even As Our Children Need Us For Love And Trust, They Also Need Us For Honest Differing. It's Not Only Over Limits And Rules...[but Also] About What We Represent In The Way Of Culture, Traditions, And Values. We Owe It To Our Children To Let Them Know What We Believe, And If They Differ With Us, We Owe It To Them To Be Honest Adversaries, For It Is Through This Honest Confrontation That Children Can Grow Into Adults Who Have A Firm Sense Of Their Place In The Sequence Of The Generations.

Often, Problems Are Knots With Many Strands, And Looking At Those Strands Can Make A Problem Seem Different.

I Feel That The Real Drama Of Life Is Never Center Stage, It's Always In The Wings. It's Never With The Spotlight On, It's Usually Something That You Don't Expect At All.

Feelings About Money -- Saving And Spending, Holding Back And Letting Go -- Start Very Early In Our Lives. Stingy People Have Often Been Forced To Give When They Were Very, Very Young, When They Weren't Ready. And Generous People Have Often Been Really Appreciated When They Were Very Young.