Our kids are not here to comfort us, to entertain us, or to validate us. Those things need to come from ourselves… — Marge M. Kennedy Adults 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 Believe 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… — Marge M. Kennedy Arrangements Copy Share Image
Too-broad questions, such as, "What's on your mind?" are apt to be answered "nothing" nearly one hundred percent of the time. Be… — Marge M. Kennedy Be careful 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… — Marge M. Kennedy Authority 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… — Marge M. Kennedy Angst 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… — Marge M. Kennedy Battle 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… — Marge M. Kennedy Adults Copy Share Image