Willing Quote by Polly Berrien Berends

Especially with our first child, we tend to take too much responsibility--both credit and blame--for everything. The more we wantto be good parents, the…

— Polly Berrien Berends

The trouble with most problem-solving books for parents is that they start with the idea that the child has a problem. Then they try…

— Polly Berrien Berends

Parenthood always comes as a shock. Postpartum blues? Postpartum panic is more like it. We set out to have a baby; what we get…

— Polly Berrien Berends

The parent is the strongest statement that the child hears regarding what it means to be alive and real. More than what we say…

— Polly Berrien Berends

Suddenly we have a baby who poops and cries, and we are trying to calm, clean up, and pin things together all at once.…

— Polly Berrien Berends

A sense of worthiness is a child's most important need.

— Polly Berrien Berends

“The child does not begin to fall until she becomes seriously interested in walking, until she actually begins learning. Falling is thus more an…

— Polly Berrien Berends

The secret is to learn to sit at the feet of your own life and be taught by it.

— Polly Berrien Berends

Awareness of having better things to do with their lives is the secret to immunizing our children against false values--whether presented on television or…

— Polly Berrien Berends

“If your children see that you are seeking, they will seek—the finding part is up to God.”

— Polly Berrien Berends

My list of things I never pictured myself saying when I pictured myself as a parent has grown over the years.

— Polly Berrien Berends

Whenever the child is given the notion that he needs to be entertained, learning comes almost to a halt.

— Polly Berrien Berends