Love Begins With Listening.

Parenting Forces Us To Get To Know Ourselves Better Than We Ever Might Have Imagined We Could--and In Many New Ways. . . . We'll Discover Talents We Never Dreamed We Had And Fervently Wish For Others At Moments We Feel We Desperately Need Them. As Time Goes On, We'll Probably Discover That We Have More To Give And Can Give More Than We Ever Imagined. But We'll Also Find That There Are Limits To Our Giving, And That May Be Hard For Us To Accept.

Deep Within Us-no Matter Who We Are-there Lives A Feeling Of Wanting To Be Lovable, Of Wanting To Be The Kind Of Person That Others Like To Be With. And The Greatest Thing We Can Do Is To Let People Know That They Are Loved And Capable Of Loving.

People Have Said, 'don't Cry' To Other People For Years And Years, And All It Has Ever Meant Is, 'i'm Too Uncomfortable When You Show Your Feelings. Don't Cry.' I'd Rather Have Them Say, 'go Ahead And Cry. I'm Here To Be With You.'

You Make Each Day A Special Day. You Know How, By Just Your Being You.

The Very Best Reason Parents Are So Special . . . Is Because We Are The Holders Of A Priceless Gift, A Gift We Received From Countless Generations We Never Knew, A Gift That Only We Now Possess And Only We Can Give To Our Children. That Unique Gift, Of Course, Is The Gift Of Ourselves. Whatever We Can Do To Give That Gift, And To Help Others Receive It, Is Worth The Challenge Of All Our Human Endeavor.