Webb WisdomI could be wrong (I often am).PARENTING

MOTHERS CLIPPED THEIR DAUGHTERS’ WINGS…

January 10, 2020 Diane Webb

“Men may have created the cage, but mothers clipped their daughters’ wings and shoved them inside.” ― Aimie K. Runyan, Promised to the Crown

BRUNT OF MOTHER’S OBSESSIVE LOVE

December 13, 2019 Diane Webb

“But I am not brave, and I have never been strong enough to carry the weight of my mother’s ambitions and expectations, to bear the

PARENTING FALACIES

December 1, 2019 Diane Webb

“My mother used to say that parenting classes should be mandatory before people were allowed to reproduce. She didn’t mean this to apply to herself,

TEACH NOT PROTECT

October 14, 2019 Diane Webb

“Shielding a child was impossible. Guidance was all that she could provide.” Eoin Dempsey, The Bogside Boys

ON BEING A PARENT

July 16, 2019 Diane Webb

“A mother cannot give birth to a child and not lose a piece of herself. The child takes a part of the parent with them,

FOREVER NO LIST REINSTATED

July 15, 2019 Diane Webb

When my children were children, I created what I called a “forever no” list. If anything on this list was ever asked for again, the

RESILIENCE OF CHILDREN

July 2, 2019 Diane Webb

“If there’s one thing I’ve learned in all my time working with children, if I could whittle those years down to a single revelation, it’s

WHERE THERE IS LOVE

April 22, 2019 Diane Webb

“Where there is love there is life.” ― Mahatma Gandhi

MY CHILDREN

April 3, 2019 Diane Webb

“In my eyes, you’re every age you’ve ever been. All at the same time. And always perfect.” Anni Taylor, Stranger in the Woods

ADULTING

March 19, 2019 Diane Webb

“I could remember what it was like to be four, thinking that the adults were in control. When you became an adult yourself, it became

IMMUNIZE AGAINST SUFFERING

March 5, 2019 Diane Webb

“Mom always said people worried too much about their children. Suffering when you’re young is good for you, she said. It immunized your body and

LOVE DOES NOT INSIST ON ITS OWN WAY

January 20, 2019 Diane Webb

“I convinced myself I owed him for loving me. No child should ever feel such a thing.” Sejal Badani, Trail of Broken Wings

CHILDREN NOW

December 5, 2018 Diane Webb

The children now love luxury: the show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Rodica Doehnert

THE SECRET TO GETTING AHEAD

November 17, 2018 Diane Webb

The secret to getting ahead is getting started (Mark Twain). Taking the very first step in any endeavor is the hardest part. When the goal

PARENTS ARE PEOPLE TOO

October 24, 2018 Diane Webb

“It’s a terrible thing when a child is stripped of his perception that his parents are perfect. Kids want to believe their parents will always

LOVE NEVER ENDS

October 1, 2018 Diane Webb

Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not

MILK COFFEE

September 29, 2018 Diane Webb

One of my fondest memory from childhood is that my parents let me drink coffee which I thought was so grown up and special. I

THE MYTH OF SELF-ESTEEM

May 19, 2018 Diane Webb

I spent years helping myself overcome a life time of “low self-esteem”. I also worked with a multitude of patients with “low self-esteem” as well.

COMMITMENT

February 20, 2018 Diane Webb

THE MAIN THING IS…

January 16, 2018 Diane Webb

NEVER VERY GOOD

August 27, 2017 Diane Webb

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders but they’ve never failed to imitate them (Zig Ziglar). “Do as I say, not

GUILT TRIP TRAVEL AGENT

August 3, 2017 Diane Webb

Some of us could be travel agents for guilt trips. We are incredibly good at it–and it does work! Using guilt to get what we

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