Ten Good Things
Parenting—Ten Things for Which You as a Parent Will Never Be Sorry
- For doing you level best even when discouraged.
- For hearing before judging in family quarrels.
- For thinking before speaking when emotionally upset.
- For not harboring unkind thoughts of a talebearer.
- For being generous to an enemy, perhaps the next door neighbor.
- For stopping your ears to gossip over the fence.
- For standing by your principles in dealing with your teenagers.
- For asking pardon, when in error, even of your child.
- For being square in business dealings with the newsboy.
- For accepting the stewardship of “another” child.
Turtle Parenting
Good parents are like turtles—hard on the outside and soft on the inside.