“About eighty percent of the food on shelves of supermarkets today didn’t exist 100 years ago.” Larry McCleary
“In my food world, there is no fear or guilt, only joy and balance. So no ingredient is ever off-limits. Rather, all of the recipes here follow my Usually-Sometimes-Rarely philosophy. Notice there is no Never.” Ellie Krieger
“Remember, too, that at a time when people are very concerned with their health and its relationship to what they eat, we have handed over the responsibility for our nourishment to faceless corporations.” Lynne Rossetto Kasper
“Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.” Mark Twain
“Respond to your children with love in their worst moments, their broken moments, their selfish moments, their lonely moments, their frustrated moments, their inconvenient moments, because it is in their most unlovable human moments that they most need to feel loved.” “Your phone won’t feel bad if you don’t pay attention to it. It won’t care if you haven’t played with it for a while. It won’t mind if you don’t hold it. Your cell phone will be small forever; your child will not.”
“Remember, no matter the problem, kindness is always the right response. When your child is having a problem, stop, listen, then respond to the behavior. The behavior can be addressed later, after the need has been met, because only then is the door to effective communication truly open.”
“Because children grow up, we think a child’s purpose is to grow up. But a child’s purpose is to be a child.”
“Challenging behavior occurs when the demands and expectations being placed upon a child outstrip the skills they have to respond.”
“Children don’t say, ‘I had a hard day. Can we talk?’ They say, ‘Will you play with me?’”
“Beneath every behavior there is a feeling, and beneath each feeling there is a need. When we meet that need rather than focusing on the behavior, we begin to deal with the cause not the symptom.”
“In your most challenging parenting moments, take a deep breath and try to remember that the moment your child is at their most challenging is the moment your child is struggling with the most challenges.”
“Getting angry and yelling at or hitting a child for being angry, yelling, or hitting is like throwing mud at a muddy child and expecting it to get them clean. Showing adult self-control and responding with compassionate guidance is like a gentle shower of wisdom bathed in love. Parent, don’t punish.”
“One day your child will make a mistake or a bad choice and run to you instead of away from you. In that moment, you will know the immense value of picking and choosing your battles with your teen.”
“One life on this earth is all that we get, whether it is enough or not enough, and the obvious conclusion would seem to be that at the very least we are fools if we do not live it as fully and bravely and beautifully as we can.” Frederick Buechner
“I know this transformation is painful, but you’re not falling apart; you’re just falling into something different, with a new capacity to be beautiful.” William C. Hannan