You can't cling to the side your whole life, that one lesson every parent needs to teach a child is "If you don't want to sink, you better figure out how to swim

Fussing over children who cry only encourages them. That's positive reinforcement for negative behavior.

If you want to be treated like a mother, act like one.

Sometimes you have to get sicker before you can get better.

One time I saw a tiny Joshua tree sapling growing not too far from the old tree. I wanted to dig it up and replant it near our house. I told Mom that I would protect it from the wind and water it every day so that it could grow nice and tall and straight. Mom frowned at me. "You'd be destroying what makes it special," she said. "It's the Joshua tree's struggle that gives it its beauty.

Life's too short to care about what other people think. Besides, they should accept us for who we are