In a Nutshell - 17: Pearls of Parenting Wisdom and Humor

• We don’t always need to agree with our children, nor they with us. What is important is that we take the time to look at events and situations from their vantage point. We can learn a lot by this shift in awareness and attention. (Saralee Sky)
• Families with babies and families without babies are sorry for each other. (Ed Howe)
• I coined the term BIRTHKEEPER to marry EARTHKEEPERS and BIRTH. EarthKeeper is a Native American word for Eco-activists as well as holders of the sacred Earth-based wisdoms. BIRTHKEEPER...Healing Birth is Healing the Earth. (Jeannine Parvati Baker)
• People who say they sleep like a baby usually don't have one. (Leo J. Burke)
• Discipline is very much needed during pregnancy, not only from the ritual aspect, but to prepare for the great discipline required in caring for a baby. You can choose daily whether to do prenatal yoga or not – but you have to “do” a baby every day. (Jeannine Parvati Baker)
• What children need most are the essentials that grandparents provide in abundance. They give unconditional love, kindness, patience, humor, comfort, lessons in life. And, most importantly, cookies. (Rudolph Giuliani)
• Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body. (Elizabeth Stone)
• It's not only children who grow. Parents do too. As much as we watch to see what our children do with their lives, they are watching us to see what we do with ours. I can't tell my children to reach for the sun. All I can do is reach for it myself. (Joyce Maynard)