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Parents of adult children should be a vacation destination, the bank, and pure love and support.
Comfort and joy to those who need mothering and to those who want to know what Mother would have said.
"If you bungle raising your children, nothing else seems to really matter much after that, does it?
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
Your Mother Loves You!
Parents of adult children should be a vacation destination, the bank, and pure love and support.
Consider this a Mother in your pocket. Take me out when you need me and put me back when you don't!
I decided I wanted my children to have my ideas about life in one place, a guide to living a good life, as written by Mother. It would be their way of knowing me.
Copyright 2009 by Elizabeth Dunkel. All rights reserved.
All rights reserved, including the right of reproduction in whole or in part in any form. Contact Rosalie Siegel at
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In a nutshell...
"There are two enduring things that we should aspire to give to our
children: the first is roots and the second is wings."
--Hodding Carter
"Here's the thing. Your job as a mother in the early days is about getting your child healthy, socialized and fit for human life. You start at zero with your newborn: eating, drinking, crawling, walking, dressing, etc. The BIG etc. for the next 17 years.
It is just when your child becomes an adult, ready to leave your home, that you want to convey the interesting stuff, the topics I'm addressing in this blog. But they're gone! And what's more, they don't want to listen!"
--Elizabeth Dunkel
Lord Chesterfield in a letter to his illegitimate son.
"I know how unwelcome advice generally is; I know that those who want it most, like it and follow it least; and I know too, that the advice of parents, more particularly, is ascribed to the moroseness the imperiousness or the garrulity of old age.
"...Do not think that I mean to dictate as Parent; I only mean to advise as a friend, and an indulgent one too: and do not apprehend that I mean to check your pleasures, of which, on the contrary, I only desire to be the guide, not the censor. Let my experience supply your want of it, and clear your way, in the progress of your youth, of those thorns and briars which scratched and disfigured me in the course of mine."
"...Do not think that I mean to dictate as Parent; I only mean to advise as a friend, and an indulgent one too: and do not apprehend that I mean to check your pleasures, of which, on the contrary, I only desire to be the guide, not the censor. Let my experience supply your want of it, and clear your way, in the progress of your youth, of those thorns and briars which scratched and disfigured me in the course of mine."
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- Mother of the moment
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About Me
- Elizabeth Dunkel
- Writer. Novelist. Memoirist. A proud former advertising copywriter. (Naive no more.) Laughing my way to the bank.
Lifetime Companion Books
- Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke
- The 9 Steps to Financial Freedom by Suze Orman
- Mastering the Art of French Cooking by Julia Child
- The Tibetan Book of Living & Dying
- A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle
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