Always tell her she is beautiful, especially if she is not.
Have unconditional love to your children no matter what happens. Give them time even in the midst of this busy life - be one on one with them.
I just feel like it gets harder and harder every year with Ace getting older and time away from my husband and even family events such as birthdays and friends' weddings and things that I've always just missed out on because of softball.
My life has been centered around sports. It is where I have met my closest friends and shaped the values that have made me a successful athlete, student and role model for young people.
I didn't really get into boys until my junior year of high school, when I had my first boyfriend. But for the most part I was always playing sports, so I was too busy for them!
I'm a role model for lots of young girls.
I get has been great. It has opened so many doors for me.
Guilt is a supreme waste of time and energy.
Once, when a religionist denounced me in unmeasured terms, I sent him a card saying, "I am sure you believe that I will go to hell when I die, and that once there I will suffer all the pains and tortures the sadistic ingenuity of your deity can devise and that this torture will continue forever. Isn't that enough for you? Do you have to call me bad names in addition?"
The holiness of love inspired ordinary men and women to act like angels. It lifted them on wings closer to God.
Your children vividly remember every unkind thing you ever did to them, plus a few you really didn't.