Tag: Parenting

"In a world that would tell me a laundry list of conditions my little girl might have, I decided instead not to worry."

"I looked away from what I was doing, over the mess of dirty children with fingernails that needed to be clipped digging sharply into my calves, and asked her what she meant... This girl. She's young. And she was so spot-on that I started to cry a little."

"I didn’t know that night, as we rocked back and forth in that cozy, worn rocker that it would be the last time I rocked you to sleep."

"One day, Daniel got a text from one of the teens who relentlessly bullied him."

"I was laying in bed, about to doze off, since I had to work in the morning, when suddenly I caught snippets of conversation coming from the living room. I strained to hear whispered voices through the closed, bedroom door..."

"If only you could give her the miracle her heart longs for—you would. But you can’t. So you give her what you can: your whispers. Your prayers."

"I won’t be around to see you grow up. It’s a hard thing to say and even harder to face."

"We didn’t know the answers, but one thing we did know: we were no longer the parents we used to be and as all of our children struggled, we no longer felt like 'good parents' at all."