The Resilient Parent

“Repair, both during and after fights, is powerful. It’s one of the main things that separate the masters of love from the disasters.[”
― Julie Schwartz Gottman, Fight Right: How Successful Couples Turn Conflict Into Connection

“The strongest communities also teach their members how to improve internal health, including emotional and mental growth that cannot be learned from books or videos.”
― Charles H. Vogl, The Art of Community: Seven Principles for Belonging

“Someone else is allowed to be upset when I assert myself; this doesn’t make them a bad person and it doesn’t make me unable to uphold my decision.”
― Becky Kennedy, Good Inside: A Guide to Becoming the Parent You Want to Be

“We know being a parent means getting a lot of advice, but this advice is almost never accompanied by an explanation of why something is true or not, or to what degree we can even know it’s true. And by not explaining why, we remove people’s ability to think about these choices for themselves, with their own preferences playing a role. Parents are people, too, and they deserve better.”
― Emily Oster, Cribsheet: A Data-Driven Guide to Better, More Relaxed Parenting, from Birth to Preschool