My childhood should have taught me lessons for my own fatherhood, but it didnt because parenting can only be learned by people who have no children. – Bill Cosby
Even as kids reach adolescence, they need more than ever for us to watch over them. Adolescence is not about letting go. Its about hanging on during a very bumpy ride. – Ron Taffel
We criticize mothers for closeness. We criticize fathers for distance. How many of us have expected less from our fathers and appreciated what they gave us more? How many of us always let them off the hook? – Ellen Goodman
Tell me not of joy: theres none Now my little sparrows gone He, just as you, Would toy and woo, He would chirp and flatter me, He would hang the wing awhile, Till at length he saw me smile, Lord! how sullen he would be! – William Cartwright
