Parents Are Like Shuttles On A Loom.

We All Have Different Gifts, So We All Have Different Ways Of Saying To The World Who We Are.

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.

If It's Mentionable, It's Manageable.

There Are Many Things Children Accept As "grown-up Things" Over When They Have No Control And For Which They Have No Responsibility--for Instance, Weddings, Having Babies, Buying Houses, And Driving Cars. Parents Who Are Separating Really Need To Help Their Children Put Divorce On That Grown-up List, So That Children Do Not See Themselves As The Cause Of Their Parents' Decision To Live Apart.

More And More I've Come To Understand That Listening Is One Of The Most Important Things We Can Do For One Another. Whether The Other Be An Adult Or A Child, Our Engagement In Listening To Who That Person Is Can Often Be Our Greatest Gift. Whether That Person Is Speaking Or Playing Or Dancing, Building Or Singing Or Painting, If We Care, We Can Listen.