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  • We found ... that being a good parent to one's own child was never and in no way enough; until we were all responsible for all the children of the world, no child would ever be safe, no society could survive.

    Children   Parent   World  
  • 99.9% of being a good parent is just being present with your child. On the flipside of that, 100% of being happy is just being present.

    Source: collider.com
  • The best way to make children good is to make them happy.

    Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.172, Wordsworth Editions
  • I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren't trying to teach us. We are formed by little scraps of wisdom.

    Umberto Eco (2007). “Foucault's Pendulum”, p.60, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • Children are people, and they should have to reach to learn about things, to understand things, just as adults have to reach if they want to grow in mental stature. Life is composed of lights and shadows, and we would be untruthful, insincere, and saccharine if we tried to pretend there were no shadows. Most things are good, and they are the strongest things; but there are evil things too, and you are not doing a child a favor by trying to shield him from reality. The important thing is to teach a child that good can always triumph over evil.

    Walt Disney, Kathy Merlock Jackson (2006). “Walt Disney: Conversations”, p.54, Univ. Press of Mississippi
  • Never fear spoiling children by making them too happy. Happiness is the atmosphere in which all good affections grow

  • If I had my child to raise all over again,I'd finger paint more, and point the finger less.I'd do less correcting, and more connecting.I'd take my eyes off my watch, and watch with my eyes.I would care to know less, and know to care more.I'd take more hikes and fly more kites.I'd stop playing serious, and seriously play.I'd run through more fields, and gaze at more stars.I'd do more hugging, and less tugging.I would be firm less often, and affirm much more.I'd build self esteem first, and the house later.I'd teach less about the love of power, and more about the power of love.

  • There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.

    Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”
  • Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.

    FaceBook post by Anne Frank from Nov 29, 2014
  • When you take the time to actually listen, with humility, to what people have to say, it's amazing what you can learn. Especially if the people who are doing the talking also happen to be children.

    Greg Mortenson (2009). “Stones into Schools: Promoting Peace with Education in Afghanistan and Pakistan”, p.140, Penguin
  • Obviously, I feel a great sense of responsibility being a good parent and raising my children. I don't take that job very lightly. Who they are, what they become and what they contribute to the world is very important to me.

    "Madonna to Anderson Cooper: Shedding a new ray of light on art and life". Interview with Anderson Cooper, www.cnn.com. October 3, 2013.
  • Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

    Nobody Knows My Name (1961) "Fifth Avenue, Uptown: a letter from Harlem"
  • The more people have studied different methods of bringing up children the more they have come to the conclusion that what good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is the best after all.

    Mother   Baby   Children  
    The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care ch. 1 (1946)
  • The important thing is to teach a child that good can always triumph over evil...

    "Deeds Rather Than Words". Essay by Walt Disney, 1963.
  • Being a good psychoanalyst has the same disadvantage as being a good parent: The children desert one as they grow up.

  • Being a good parent will necessarily break our hearts as we watch a child grow and eventually choose their own way, even through many of the same heartbreaks we have traversed.

    Children   Heart   Parent  
    "The Poetic Narrative Of Our Times" by David Whyte, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.
  • I take the academic education as seriously as the physical education. That's why I tell parents that the schools can't do it all themselves. The parents can't come home from work and turn on the TV. That's not being a good parent.

    Home   School   Parent  
    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.

    "The 100 best nonfiction books: No 68 - Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave by Frederick Douglass (1845)" by Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. May 22, 2017.
  • Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.

    Family   Friday   Mother  
    "Creating Fond Memories With Our Children" by Dr. Hyder Zahed, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 15, 2014.
  • What good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is usually best after all.

    Mom   Mother   Baby  
    Benjamin Spock, Robert Needlman (2012). “Dr. Spock's Baby and Child Care: 9th Edition”, p.2, Simon and Schuster
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