Katie Pummill

“How you relate to care tasks—whether you are clean or dirty, messy or tidy, organized or unorganized—has absolutely no bearing on whether you are a good enough person.”
― K.C. Davis, How to Keep House While Drowning

“when we see our children as problems to manage instead of image-bearers to be discipled, we end up making moments of discipline about our convenience instead of their discipleship.”
― Justin Whitmel Earley, Habits of the Household: Practicing the Story of God in Everyday Family Rhythms

“One of my biggest fears is that school-age children end up getting labeled as having ADHD and are given medication when parents could have put in the early training that may have nipped these problems in the bud or at least made them less severe. I wonder how many children diagnosed with ADHD may not have a neurological condition but rather be suffering from a lack of time being put in on education in the early years to help develop those brain circuits and increase the ability to focus and concentrate.”
― Jo Frost, Jo Frost's Toddler Rules: Your 5-Step Guide to Shaping Proper Behavior

“Care tasks are morally neutral. Being good or bad at them has nothing to do with being a good person, parent, man, woman, spouse, friend. Literally nothing. You are not a failure because you can’t keep up with laundry. Laundry is morally neutral.”
― K.C. Davis, How to Keep House While Drowning