“When a man does not live with his children and does not get along with the mother of his children, his fatherhood becomes essentially untenable, regardless of how he feels, how hard he tries, or whether he is a good guy. Almost by definition, he has become de-fathered.” MenFeelsTryingChildrenDoeHardMotherGuyDefinitionsFatherhoodGood Guy Author:David Blankenhorn
“America was based on a big promise--a great big one: the Declaration of Independence. When you have to live with that in the house, that's quite a problem--particularly when you've got to make money and get ahead, open world markets, do all the things you have to, raise your children, and so forth. America is stuck with its self-definition put on paper in 1776, and that was just like putting a burr under the metaphysical saddle of America--you see, that saddle's going to jump now and then and it pricks.” WorldChildrenSelfProblemBigsAmericaHousePromisePaperOur ChildrenRaisesIndependenceDefinitionsStuckMaking MoneyYour ChildrenNow And ThenDeclarationMetaphysicalDeclaration Of IndependenceGet AheadSaddlesBurrs Author:Robert Penn Warren
“To freely bloom that is my definition of success. The question then is, How does arguing with our children advance our goal that our children freely bloom.” ChildrenDoeGoalOur ChildrenDefinitionsArguingDefinition Of Success Author:Gerry Spence
“Lying is a crime the least liable to variation in its definitions. A child will upon the slightest temptation tell an untruth as readily as the truth. That is, as soon as he can suspect that it will be to his advantage; and the dread that he afterward has of telling a lie is acquired principally by his being threatened, punished, and terrified by those who detect him in it, till at length, a number of painful impressions are annexed to the telling of an untruth, and he comes even to shudder at the thought of it.” ChildrenLyingNumbersCrimeAdvantageDefinitionsPainfulImpressionTemptationLengthSuspectsDreadTerrifiedThreatenedVariationLiableUntruth Book:The Theological and Miscellaneous Works. Ed. with Notes by John Towill Rutt Source: The Theological and Miscellaneous Works. Ed. with Notes by John Towill Rutt