Being a good parent will necessarily break our hearts as we watch a child grow and eventually choose their own way, even through many of the same heartbreaks we have traversed.

Being a good psychoanalyst, in short, has the same disadvantage as being a good parent: The children desert one as they grow up.

I don't think I'd be a very good parent. I'd be too honest.

Having one child makes you a parent; having two you are a referee.

When you're a parent you find yourself looking at the unknown that is your child, trying to find a piece of yourself inside her, because sometimes that is what it takes to claim.

If you're a good parent, see the changes that are happening in your kids.