Simplicity Parenting: Using the Extraordinary Power of Less to Raise Calmer, Happier, and More Secure Kids

by Kim John Payne

It’s strange how we look for meaning everywhere, as though it will be “new,” not something that we already know and constantly have to remember, renew, and reclaim as our own.

What seems the most important is usually not; what is most doable is the place to begin. If you do enough that is doable, you will get to the important, and your motivation will be fueled by your success.

Helen Keller noted, “Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet.”

“The central struggle of parenthood is to let our hopes for our children outweigh our fears.”

“When your child seems to deserve affection least, that’s when they need it most.”

Relationships are often built in the intervals, the spaces between activities, when nothing much is going on.

When you act to limit what you don’t want for your family, you clarify what you really do need, what is important to you.