In a Nutshell - 8: Pearls of Parenting Wisdom and Humor

• The knowledge that each and every childbirth is a spiritual experience has been forgotten by too many people in the world today, especially in the countries with high levels of technology. (Ina May Gaskin)
• When a child is born, the entire Universe has to shift and make room…Every child born is a living Buddha. (Stephen Gaskin)
• I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career. (Gloria Steinem)
• My parents love me. (Crystal Sky, age 4)
• The world is a process of translation: spirit into substance, powerlessness into wisdom, ego into knowledge. At each stage we must give up something even if it is a way of life that we have always known. There is no free lunch, my daughter, even on the road to the stars. (Ginevee)
• Play Dough and Microwave should never be used in the same sentence. (email from a friend)
• A mother becomes a true grandmother the day she stops noticing the terrible things her children do because she is so enchanted with the wonderful things her grandchildren do. (Lois Wyse)
• The Soul that rises with us, our life’s Star, hath had elsewhere its setting, and cometh from afar: Not in entire forgetfulness, and not in utter nakedness, but trailing clouds of glory do we come from God, who is our home: Heaven lies about us in our infancy! (William Wordsworth)