“Did you notice there aren’t any average kids anymore—only Gifted and Disposable?” — Heather Choate Davis Education Copy Share Image
“The attempt to prevent our kids from struggling for fear it might scar their permanent records is, instead, scarring them for life.” — Heather Choate Davis Child Copy Share Image
“Even if we’ve never been inside a synagogue or a mosque or a church—even if we have, and vowed never to go… — Heather Choate Davis Ambition Copy Share Image
“Our own egos are so fragile we cannot bear to give our lives to the raising of children only to have them… — Heather Choate Davis Copy Share Image
“America is a young country, young and brash and prone to errors. Like teenagers. For all our inherent goodness, we’ve been cursed… — Heather Choate Davis Copy Share Image
“When God says hold up, wait, pray, it’s not your time yet, our entire bodies rebel, legs kicking and flailing like some… — Heather Choate Davis Impatience Copy Share Image
“In our post-everything culture, obey has become a four-letter word. Obeying is for wimps. Obeying is for people who didn’t do well… — Heather Choate Davis Copy Share Image
“We fluff them and fold them and nudge them and enhance them and bind them and break them and embellish them beyond… — Heather Choate Davis Copy Share Image
“We love Christmas presents but not Christ; Easter baskets but not crosses. We want to tell our friends with cancer that we… — Heather Choate Davis Children Copy Share Image
“I can’t hear God’s voice for my kids, but I can watch and listen and pray and adjust and try not to… — Heather Choate Davis Children Copy Share Image
