“The more negative you seem, while expressing your inability to provide what your children need, the more the chances that you would lose their respect and worse, break their spirit.”
“...had recommended pediatrics as the most honest specialization, because children become sick only when in fact they are sick, and they cannot communicate with the physician using conventional words but only with concrete symptoms of real disease. After a certain age, however, adults either had the symptoms without the diseases or, what was worse, serious diseases with the symptoms of minor ones.”
Source: Love in the Time of Cholera
“If your family has gotten used to having devices at the table, it can be difficult to break the cycle... Find a starting point that works for you and use it as an opportunity to reset the relationship between meals and devices.”
Source: The Twelve Monotasks: Do One Thing at a Time to Do Everything Better
“Being older deceives us into thinking that we are experts at being the ages we used to be.”
Source: P for Pessimism: A Collection of Funny yet Profound Aphorisms
“Some mountains will challenge you, push you, and help you uncover the unique version of you.”
Source: Coming to Grips with the Mountains and Valleys of This World
“Things have changed since we were children, perhaps not as much as we might have liked, but the world is a different place. Faster, louder, lonelier. Unlike the world around us, we haven't changed at all, not really. History is a mirror and we're all just older versions of ourselves; children disguised as adults.”
Source: Sometimes I Lie
“Remember that people who behave in hurtful ways have been programmed sometime in their childhood to be that way.”
Source: The Flower of Heaven: Opening the Divine Heart Through Conscious Friendship & Love Activism
“Campers screamed when they swam and played and sometimes simply for the sake of screaming.”
Source: The Box in the Woods
“There will be children here tomorrow,” Nate said. “Children. With their little child fingers.”
“Child fingers?”
“I’m saying we won’t be safe anymore. This other counselor better stop being sick really quick.”
Source: The Box in the Woods
“Parents who are emotionally unavailable, indifferent, uninterested, too busy and/or highly critical set their children up for self-rejection and the need for external validation.”
Source: The Flower of Heaven: Opening the Divine Heart Through Conscious Friendship & Love Activism