If you know someone who has lost a child, and you're afraid to mention them because you think you might make them sad by reminding them that they died-you're not reminding them. They didn't forget they died. What you're reminding them of is that you remembered that they lived, and that is a great gift.
I do know that when my children are older and telling their own children about their grandmother, they will be able to say that she stood in the storm...and when the wind did not blow her way - - and it surely has not - - she adjusted her sails.
I've often said that the most important thing you can give your children is wings. Because, you're not gonna always be able to bring food to the nest. You're... sometimes... they're gonna have to be able to fly by themselves.
People find it a great blessing if their child left behind a child.
By what you do, you teach your children how to respond to difficult information.
Part of what I want to do is sort of reclaim my story - it belongs to me and to my children, who have to live with whoever their mother is.
Every parent has gone through a period when their child wasn't so happy with them.
To be perfectly frank, there is an odd place after losing a child, where you think somehow your life is worth less.
If people think that you're throwing babies out, dissecting children, to do stem-cell research, I'm not for that.
I love children, love spending time with them; I love getting things for them.
I have three living children for whom this is a father who I want them to love and on whom they're going to have to rely if my disease takes a bad turn.
