Penelope Leach Quotes

Loving a baby is a circular business, a kind of feedback loop. The more you give the more you get and the more you get the more you feel like giving.

There is no way out of the experience except through it, because it is not really your experience at all but the baby's. Your body is the child's instrument of birth.

Guilt is the most destructive of all emotions. It mourns what has been while playing no part in what may be, now or in the future.

Whatever you do to your child's body, you are doing to your child's mind too.

Children do not need superhuman, perfect parents. They have always managed with good enough parents: the parents they happened to have.

Being "brave" means doing or facing something frightening. ... Being "fearless" means being without fear.

Kids haven't changed much, but parents seem increasingly unhappy with the child raising phase of their lives.