Remember, the goal is not to raise great kids; it's to raise kids who become great adults. — Andy Andrews Copy Share Image
“Each house has its own signature, unknown to all except the grown children who go back to visit.” — Anita Shreve Copy Share Image
“The thing was, with parenting grown children, you had to learn to hold your tongue. If you wanted them to tell you… — Joanna Trollope Copy Share Image
Anyone who's a parent dreads that call in the middle of the night. I have four grown children and I still dread… — Tony Dungy Copy Share Image
“And they both sat there, grown up, yet children at heart; and it was summer, - warm, beautiful summer.” — Hans Christian Andersen Copy Share Image
I've been married a long time, I've got grown children, and I love to play golf. So I guess I'm just a… — B. J. Thomas Copy Share Image
Khaddar is an activity that can absorb all the time of all available men and women and grown-up children, if they have… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Now that I have grown children we all make that effort to keep the family kind of protected and private. — Karen Pence Copy Share Image
One of the most common reasons people renovate their homes is a change in their lifestyle - an upcoming wedding, a new… — Candice Olson Copy Share Image
A mother cannot reasonably expect her grown-up children to boomerang back, gushing cosiness and make up for lost time. Absentee Mum, then… — Carol Thatcher Copy Share Image
“It would be a den for overgrown children looking for an indulgence, something nostalgic, something simultaneously luxurious and youthful. Much like a… — Meg Donohue Copy Share Image
There comes a time in the life of every human when he or she must decide to risk ‘his life, his fortune… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“Grace wonders if Tom and Claire will one day visit her and have a similar sensation of home. Each house has its… — Anita Shreve Copy Share Image
Treat your kid like a darling for the first five years. For the next five years, scold them. By the time they… — Chanakya Copy Share Image
The Congressional Record will forever show that [Obamacare] was passed in a romper room of overgrown children seemingly barely old enough to… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
Every childhood has its talismans, the sacred objects that look innocuous enough to the outside world, but that trigger an onslaught of… — Steven Johnson Copy Share Image
The entire history of humanity is marked by a single inexorable movement - from animal instinct toward rational thought, from inborn behavior… — Philipp Meyer Copy Share Image
With grown children, we can look back at both our mistakes and what we did well in our parenting, having conversations with… — Wendy Lustbader Copy Share Image
“The Family and Medical Leave Act, for example, only entitles spouses, grown children, and parents to take time off to care for… — Sara Eckel Copy Share Image
Nothing is more debilitating than to care about something you can't do anything about. And you can't do anything about your adult… — Esther Hicks Copy Share Image
“Today women live long into their children's adult lives . . . too little is made of the pleasure we women feel… — Carolyn Heilbrun Copy Share Image
Parents offer an open womb. More than anyone else in your life, mothers, and sometimes fathers, can kiss it, and make it… — Frank Pittman Copy Share Image
“see who got caught. They have three grown children and enough grandchildren to keep them young. When she’s not writing, Carolyn likes… — Carolyn Brown Copy Share Image
“You raise them half-decent, and they grow up and leave. They move to Miami or California-- someplace with gourmet groceries and nude… — Michael Lee West Copy Share Image
“Motherhood is both a beautiful dance and a brutally gut-wrenching exercise in self- control. As much as we want to jump in… — Kate Battistelli Copy Share Image
“I heard the gunshots. I was worried. Guns don’t always mean the one holding them won.” Steven hugged her close. “Do you… — Michael Kanuckel Copy Share Image
“A Lake Charles-based artist, Sally was a progressive Democrat who in 2016 primary favored Bernie Sanders. Sally's very dear friend and worl-traveling… — Arlie Russell Hochschild Copy Share Image
“John felt grounded again. He remembered his favorite Bible story, the one about Peter getting out of the boat and walking on… — Karen Kingsbury Copy Share Image
“After Mary confessed that dream to him, Jack got to wondering how women felt about motherhood once their children are grown and… — Lilli Jolgren Day Copy Share Image
“Lucien found him a week later. Gavriel had taken the stagecoach away from Paris and found himself a small hostelry outside Marseille.… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
“A cult is a group of people who share an obsessive devotion to a person or idea. The cults described in this… — Margaret Smith Copy Share Image
Stop hooking up with these over grown children then wanna get mad when they're always acting childish. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have two children. They're grown children. I don't think they particularly enjoy it when I'm in a dangerous situation, but they… — Martha Raddatz Copy Share Image
One didn't issue instructions to comets. Grown children did what they had to do, and parents could only grit their teeth and… — Lisa Alther Copy Share Image
I understand the sensitivities of grown children with little ones of their own!! They'll turn away a mother full of advice, but… — Cathy Guisewite Copy Share Image
Once your children are grown up and have children of their own, the problems are theirs and the less the older generation… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image