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"Passing their toilet training is the very last thing that some adults did that has made their parents proud of them."
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"Passing their toilet training is the very last thing that some adults did that has made their parents proud of them."
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"The unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he injures are always in his sight."
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"Kids are a great analogy. You want your kids to grow up, and you don't want your kids to grow up. You want your kids to become independent of you, but it's also a parent's worst nightmare: That they won't need you. It's like the real tragedy of parenting."
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"Would a minute have mattered? No, probably not, although his young son appeared to have a very accurate internal clock. Possibly even 2 minutes would be okay. Three minutes, even. You could go to five minutes, perhaps. But that was just it. If you could go for five minutes, then you'd go to ten, then half an hour, a couple of hours...and not see your son all evening. So that was that. Six o'clock, prompt. Every day. Read to young Sam. No excuses. He'd promised himself that. No excuses. No excuses at all. Once you had a good excuse, you opened the door to bad excuses."
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"I learned to love my son without wanting to possess him and I learned how to teach him to teach himself."
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"Being a 'good' parent is more about the parent, and, less about the 'supposedly-could-have-been-bad' child."
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"I may deserve your disappointment as well as a lecture and strict discipline, but what I need is your understanding, your guidance, and your unconditional love."
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"Children rarely follow parental advice unless it is acted out repeatedly. It's called being an example."
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"More people would be depressed, if parents tried to please their children as frequently and as badly as children try to please their parents."
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"If you want to teach real religion to the kids, throw away the Bible, the Vedas, the Quran and all the scriptures, and teach them the religion of love."
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"In a materialistic society, the dead body of a rich man's dog is regarded as a corpse; that of a poor man, a carcass."
Society

"The fact that you have just buried your parent or parents and/or sibling or siblings does not make you less likely to die today."
Mortality

"Worrying about what happened on Monday, or, what might happen on Wednesday, is at the expense of one's Tuesday."
Time

"A satirist that criticizes religion is seen as a satanist."
Religion

"Employers are at their happiest on Mondays. Employees are at their happiest on Fridays."
Work

"Back then, work revolved around life. Today, life revolves around work."
Work

"In some cases, it is the woman's stomach-not her heart-that has left her man for another."
Relationship

"Most priests wish they were as righteous as they seem to most members of their congregations."
Religion

"Tomorrow is like 'there.' Once you get 'there,' it is called 'here.' So, technically, life is a set of Todays."
Philosophy

"A writer's primary goal is to make sense. The bookstore's is to make cents."
Writing
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