Parenting; Parenthood

Mothers and fathers tell of the love and the pain, the joy and the fears, the wisdom and the faith, the mystery and the mysticism of raising children.

About this Blog Just about every career requires prior course training, and often some work-related experience. Becoming a parent can be one of the most responsible positions we undertake, yet most of us do so unprepared and without any prior knowledge. ...

My son has started a streak of lying. He tells me he does things and then I find out that he didn't. I want him to understand that lying is unacceptable...

I have managed to gather only snippets of information about her past as a child survivor of the Holocaust...

There is only one thing like the love of a mother for her child . . .

Everyone can become a “mother.” What comes naturally to the female half of creation can be learned and assimilated by all, and not only in giving birth to children but in every one of life’s endeavors.

You will discover a world as authentic as your own, yet heretofore completely unknown to you. It is as fresh as Rembrandt’s, as far-reaching as Einstein’s, as unusual as Van Gogh’s, as terrifying and macabre as Edgar Allen Poe’s. It has its own harmony ...