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  • You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.

  • The most important thing that parents can teach their children is how to get along without them.

  • Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother

  • We never know the love of the parent for the child till we become parents.

    "Royal Truths, etc".
  • It's not only children who grow. Parents do too. As much as we watch to see what our children do with their lives, they are watching us to see what we do with ours. I can't tell my children to reach for the sun. All I can do is reach for it, myself.

    Joyce Maynard (2010). “At Home in the World: A Memoir”, p.300, Macmillan
  • The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant, and let the air out of the tires.

    Dorothy Parker (2004). “Dorothy Parker in Her Own Words”, Taylor Trade Publishing
  • Super confident people with no problems and great marriages and great parenting are not good entertainment.

    "Not My Job: 'Mad Men' Creator Matthew Weiner Gets Quizzed On Glad Men". "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!" with Peter Sagal, www.npr.org. March 28, 2015.
  • Affirming words from moms and dads are like light switches. Speak a word of affirmation at the right moment in a child's life and it's like lighting up a whole roomful of possibilities.

    Mom   Dad   Children  
    Gary Smalley, John T. Trent (1995). “Leaving the Light On: Building the Memories That Will Draw Kids Home”, Multnomah
  • Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.

    "Reflections for Tending the Sacred Garden". Book by Bonita Jean Zimmer (p. 182), April 2003.
  • To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while. Your children need your presence more than your presents.

  • Life affords no greater responsibility, no greater privilege, than the raising of the next generation

    Love   Teacher   Children  
  • In spite of the six thousand manuals on child raising in the bookstores, child raising is still a dark continent and no one really knows anything. You just need a lot of love and luck - and, of course, courage.

    Courage   Children   Dark  
    Bill Cosby (1987). “Fatherhood”, Berkley Publishing Group
  • When you hold your baby in your arms the first time, and you think of all the things you can say and do to influence him, it's a tremendous responsibility. What you do with him can influence not only him, but everyone he meets and not for a day or a month or a year but for time and eternity.

  • You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.

    Prophet (1923) "On Children"
  • What a child doesn't receive he can seldom later give.

    P. D. James (2011). “Time to Be in Earnest”, p.11, Faber & Faber
  • 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.

  • If you've never been hated by your child, you've never been a parent.

    Mom   Mother   Children  
  • 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
  • Parents often talk about the younger generation as if they didn't have anything to do with it.

  • If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.

    FaceBook post by Brian Tracy from May 15, 2014
  • A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone.

  • You know your children are growing up when they stop asking you where they came from and refuse to tell you where they're going.

  • At the end of the day, the most overwhelming key to a child's success is the positive involvement of parents.

  • I looked on child rearing not only as a work of love and duty but as a profession that was fully as interesting and challenging as any honorable profession in the world and one that demanded the best that I could bring to it.

  • Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them.

    Funny   Life   Sarcastic  
    P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “The Bachelor Home Companion: A Practical Guide to Keeping House Like a Pig”, p.124, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
  • If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.

  • We may not be able to prepare the future for our children, but we can at least prepare our children for the future.

  • Hugs can do great amounts of good - especially for children.

  • To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while.

    Family   Children   Dad  
    Josh Billings (1953). “Uncle Sam&s uncle Josh”
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