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Very often when you see families it’s all perfect and neat, and parenting isn’t like that. You do have constant negotiations. Things are ever developing and ever changing, and you constantly have to evaluate how you deal with your kids.
We expect teachers to handle teenage pregnancy, substance abuse, and the failings of the family. Then we expect them to educate our children.
Mama and Daddy King represent the best in manhood and womanhood, the best in a marriage, the kind of people we are trying to become.
I’d just as soon stay home and raise babies.
No one knows his true character until he has run out of gas, purchased something on the installment plan and raised an adolescent.
I don’t think children’s inner feelings have changed. They still want a mother and father in the very same house they want places to play.
I get whatever placidity I have from my father. But my mother taught me how to take it on the chin.
It’s a great mistake, I think, to put children off with falsehoods and nonsense, when their growing powers of observation and discrimination excite in them a desire to know about things.
Mom and Dad would stay in bed on Sunday morning, but the kids would have to go to church.
I regret not having had more time with my kids when they were growing up.