Collection was entered by the articles of having many children mother and teacher Ann Сапрыкиной, during a few years published on the portal of pravoslavie.ru. These "maternal notes" are reflections about that, how it is today possible to build christian family, about relations between children and parents, about that, how centuries-old traditions of the Orthodox culture can fully organically "live" in a modern house.Greater part of "notes" is practical experience of organization domestic reading with children different ages, realizations of holytides in family. Future parents, young dads and mothers, parents "with experience", teachers of bases of the Orthodox culture and sunday-schools, will be able to find in these articles interesting and useful ideas for own pedagogical work.