Inspired Parenting
“Letting go of your child is the hardest job you'll ever have and the most important one. Give him the right to try--and the right to fail.”
Daily Inspiration for Parents
Good values, good training and good memories are greater than anything else you can give your children, but that doesn't mean that it's easy to give these gifts to them. Tune into 'Families' to get the encouragement you need to do your best every day--and to forgive yourself when you don't.
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Meet Marguerite Kelly
Marguerite Kelly, columnist and author, has given thoughtful, practical parenting advice for 32 years, but as a parent, not an expert. Marguerite began writing her nationally syndicated advice column for the Washington Post in 1979 as an offshoot of The Mother's Almanac, which she co-authored in 1975 for parents of children from birth to 6.
The Mother's Almanac was not only the first parenting book on the market, it quickly became a 'bible' for families and is still billed by Doubleday as "the most complete book ever written about loving and living with small children". It was revised by Marguerite in 1992, has sold more than 800,000 copies, been quoted on everything from Hollywood Squares to Sleepytime Tea, was a Book of the Month selection and received a Parents' Choice award. In 1989, Marguerite published a book about children from 6 to 12, first called The Mother's Almanac II and then renamed The Mother's Almanac Goes to School, which was also chosen by Book of the Month and Parents Choice. Her third book, Marguerite Kelly's Family Almanac--a collection of columns and essays-was published by Simon & Schuster and called "a classic in its own right" by the Library Journal.
In addition, Marguerite has written for the New York Times Magazine, Family Circle, Woman's Day, Ladies Home Journal, Harper's Bazaar, Family Life, Traditional Home and the Weekly Standard and has lectured extensively.She and her husband, Tom Kelly, a retired journalist, have reared four children-three writers and a kindergarten teacher-who have each had two children of their own.
