If you have a mom, there is nowhere you are likely to go where a prayer has not already been.
If minutes were kept of a family gathering, they would show that "Members not Present" and "Subjects Discussed" were one and the same.
A child seldom needs a good talking to as a good listening to.
What greater blessing to give thanks for at a family gathering than the family and the gathering.
There comes a time when a man and woman realize that their separate schemes can be better achieved as a conspiracy.
Family life is a bit like a runny peach pie - not perfect but who's complaining?
In a houseful of toddlers and pets, you can start out having a bad day, but you keep getting detoured.
It is one thing to show your child the way, and a harder thing to then stand out of it
Conspicuously absent from the Ten Commandments is any obligation of parent to child. We must suppose that God felt it unnecessary to command by law what He had ensured by love.
The thing about family disasters is that you never have to wait long before the next one puts the previous one into perspective.
There is a strong chance that siblings who turn out well were hassled by the same parents.
A mom forgives us all our faults, not to mention one or two we don't even have.
Perhaps we are given a mom that we might take into death the memory of a lullaby.
A mom reads you like a book, and wherever she goes, people read you like a glowing book review.
A family is a bunch of people who keep confusing you with someone you were as a kid.
There is an instinct in a woman to love most her own child - and an instinct to make any child who needs her love, her own.
The advantage of growing up with siblings is that you become very good at fractions.
In a household of toddlers and pets, we discover this rule of thumb about happy families - that they are least two-thirds incontinent.
