Everyone longs to be loved. And the greatest thing we can do is to let people know that they are loved and capable of loving. - Fred Rogers

Anyone who has ever been able to sustain good work has had at least one person — and often many — who have believed in him or her. We just don't get to be competent human beings without a lot of different investments from others.

Childhood isn’t just something we “get through.” It’s a big journey, and it’s one we’ve all taken. Most likely, though, we’ve forgotten how much we had to learn along the way about ourselves and others.

Letting our children go” is a lifelong process for parents, one that we wrestle with again and again, and each parent has to wrestle with it in his or her own way.