GRANDPARENTAL LOVE The bond between a child and a grandparent is the purest, least psychologically complicated form of human love. From Between Parents & Grandparents, by Arthur Kornhaber
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PRINCIPLES OF FAMILY LEADERSHIP Jack Mayhall suggests the following principles of family leadership: 1. Know your wife in order to look out for her welfare. 2. Keep the channels of communication open and clear. 3.…
MATERNAL PHILOSOPHERS Mothers are the most instinctive philosophers. -- Harriet Beecher Stowe
HUGGING IS HEALTHY Hugging is healthy. It helps the body's immune system, it keeps you healthier, it cures depression, it reduces stress, it induces sleep, it's invigorating, it's rejuvenating, it has no unpleasant side effects,…
TENDERNESS OF TOUCH Barbara Coloroso writes: "Infants thrive on full-body massages, gentle stroking in a circular motion over their entire bodies. Toddlers and older children like having their heads, backs, arms, legs, and feet massaged.…
RELATIONSHIP RIGHTS Relationships are hard. It's like a full- time job, and we should treat it like one. If your boyfriend or girlfriend wants to leave you, they should give you two weeks' notice. There…
SECOND SHALL BE FIRST At a family gathering, a father was trying to start his snowmobile, so that he could give his children and nieces and nephews a ride. His two daughters, three nephews and…
FAVORITE HIMS The little girl just loved to sing. One day her Sunday School teacher asked this sweet little singer what her favorite hymns were. The little girl looked up at her teacher and said,…
HAD I NOT On the theme of thankfulness from Kent Nerburn's book, Letters to My Son: Had I not been on that one certain corner at that one certain moment; had that one hand not…
SOMEONE TODAY We worry about what a child will be tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today. -- Stacia Tauscher
KIDS OF THE KINGDOM The playwright Victor Hugo captured the essence of motherhood in one of his plays in which a ship's captain gives a starving mother and her two starving children a slice of…
WHAT A CHILD LIVES WITH If A Child Lives With: criticism, she learns to condemn. hostility, he learns to fight. fear, she learns to be apprehensive. pity, he learns to feel sorry for himself. jealousy,…
ABSOLUTE MARRIAGE In the pamphlet "The Tribute," James Dobson tells about a letter sent to him by the daughter of a man who wrote this letter for his wife and her mother. The letter conveyed…
MAGIC IN MARRIAGE My husband put some magic back in our marriage. He disappeared!
WHAT IS A FAMILY? What is a family? A family is a mobile. A family is the most versatile, ever-changing mobile that exists. A family is a living mobile that is different from the handcraft…
NOT MUCH IN COMMON It's pretty sad when, after years of marriage, the only thing a husband and wife have in common is the day they got married! By Michael Hodgin
DATING DEFINITIONS DATING - the process of spending enormous amounts of money, time, and energy to get better acquainted with a person whom you don't especially like now, but will learn to like a lot…
MET WIFE AT A DANCE Husband to friend: "The trouble is I met my wife at the local dance." Friend: "What's the problem with that?" Husband: "I thought she was home with the kids; she…
BEN HUR At first the dog was named Ben, then it had puppies, now it's Ben Hur.
TEEN SPIRITUALITY In the book, Growing Up in America, sociologist Anthony Campolo suggests that one of the primary responsibilities we have for our young people is to challenge them to influence their world by possessing…
