Too-broad questions, such as, "What's on your mind?" are apt to be answered "nothing" nearly one hundred percent of the time. Be careful of slipping into ""psycho-speak," however. Kids pick up instantly your attempt at being a pseudo-shrink. Most resent… — Marge M. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Our kids are not here to comfort us, to entertain us, or to validate us. Those things need to come from ourselves and from… — Marge M. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Parents, whether or not we believe in a deity, know that to witness a child's mind searching for meaning is a miracle. — Marge M. Kennedy Copy Share Image
[Our family is] a wonderfully messy arrangement, in which relationships overlap, underlie, support, and oppose one another. It didn't always come together easily nor does it always stay together easily. It's known very good times and very bad ones. It has held together, often out of shared memories and hopes, sometimes out of the lure of my sisters' cooking, and… — Marge M. Kennedy Copy Share
Too-broad questions, such as, "What's on your mind?" are apt to be answered "nothing" nearly one hundred percent of the time. Be careful of… — Marge M. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Single parents in particular may have trouble maintaining themselves as authority figures because of underlying guilt; they feel acontinuing sense that they have deprived… — Marge M. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Boy meets girl. Boy marries girl. Boy and girl angst over which family they visit at Thanksgiving and which one in December and whether… — Marge M. Kennedy Copy Share Image
We've all got to remember to pick our battles carefully, to be prepared to lose small ones, and to hold out for big ones. — Marge M. Kennedy Copy Share Image
No matter how children came to be living with just one parent, they need to be told, again and again, that your family's configuration… — Marge M. Kennedy Copy Share Image
