The World Needs A Sense Of Worth,

How Many Times Have You Noticed That It's The Little Quiet Moments In The Midst Of Life That Seem To Give The Rest Extra-special Meaning?

It Is One Of The Paradoxes Of Parenting, And Often A Painful Paradox, That Even As Our Children Need Us For Love And Trust, They Also Need Us For Honest Differing. It's Not Only Over Limits And Rules...[but Also] About What We Represent In The Way Of Culture, Traditions, And Values. We Owe It To Our Children To Let Them Know What We Believe, And If They Differ With Us, We Owe It To Them To Be Honest Adversaries, For It Is Through This Honest Confrontation That Children Can Grow Into Adults Who Have A Firm Sense Of Their Place In The Sequence Of The Generations.

We're All On A Journey - Each One Of Us. And If We Can Be Sensitive To The Person Who Happens To Be Our Neighbor, That, To Me, Is The Greatest Challenge As Well As The Greatest Pleasure.

When We Choose To Be Parents, We Accept Another Human Being As Part Of Ourselves, And A Large Part Of Our Emotional Selves Will Stay With That Person As Long As We Live. From That Time On, There Will Be Another Person On This Earth Whose Orbit Around Us Will Affect Us As Surely As The Moon Affects The Tides, And Affect Us In Some Ways More Deeply Than Anyone Else Can. Our Children Are Extensions Of Ourselves.

People Have Said, 'don't Cry' To Other People For Years And Years, And All It Has Ever Meant Is, 'i'm Too Uncomfortable When You Show Your Feelings. Don't Cry.' I'd Rather Have Them Say, 'go Ahead And Cry. I'm Here To Be With You.'