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  • Lifestyles and sex roles are passed from parents to children as inexorably as blue eyes or small feet.

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

  • There's a really unique relationship between a single parent and their child. Marriages so easily break up. There's kind of this temporary deal about marriages. That's one of the things that makes it stressful, and that's something that's nonexistent in a parent-child relationship.

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

  • The best way to make children good is to make them happy.

    Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.172, Wordsworth Editions
  • Freedom to really prioritize and really zone into what really matters which is the parent-child connection.

    "Evolving From Control to Connection Parenting". Interview with Allison Sutter, www.chicagonow.com. October 13, 2015.
  • Motherhood is the most dangerous and awesome relationship possible. ... The parent/child blood relationship is one-sided and irrevocable and enduring. And it is all rather humbling.

  • 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
  • If you can give your child only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.

  • 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
  • Setting a good example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age.

    William Feather (1949). “The Business of Life”
  • In Afghan society, parents play a central role in the lives of their children; the parent-child relationship is fundamental to who you are and what you become and how you perceive yourself, and it is laden with contradictions, with tension, with anger, with love, with loathing, with angst.

    Children   Play   Parent  
    "Barnes & Noble interview with Khaled Hosseini". Interview with James Mustich, www.csmonitor.com. November 24, 2008.
  • Nobody is free… Everyone has a prison. Wife, parents, children, they all make prisons.

    Children   Wife   Parent  
  • Liberal Doctrine: it is not children who misbehave, but parents.

  • 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.
  • The child is thinking and receiving vibrational thought from you on the day that he enters your environment. That is the reason that beliefs are transmitted so easily from parent to child.

    Esther Hicks, Jerry Hicks (2006). “The Law of Attraction”, p.149, Hay House, Inc
  • The guys who fear becoming fathers don't understand that fathering is not something perfect men do, but something that perfects the man. The end product of child-raising is not the child but the parent.

    Children   Dad   Father  
    "Man Enough: Fathers, Sons, and the Search for Masculinity". Book by Frank Pittman, www.today.com. 1993.
  • The idea of reverence for God is transmitted from parent to child, it is educated into an abnormal development, and thus almost indefinitely strengthened, but yet it does appear to me that the bent to worship is an integral part of man's nature.

    Children   Men   Ideas  
    Annie Besant (2014). “My Path to Atheism”, p.169, The Floating Press
  • The problem with children is that you have to put up with their parents.

    Charles De Lint (2000). “Triskell Tales: Twenty-two Years of Chapbooks”, Subterranean
  • For the joy of human love, brother, sister, parent, child, Friends on earth and friends above, for all gentle thoughts and mild; Christ, our God, to Thee we raise this our Sacrifice of grateful praise.

  • 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.

  • Never fear spoiling children by making them too happy. Happiness is the atmosphere in which all good affections grow

  • The best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.

    Television interview by Edward R. Murrow, CBS, 27 May 1955
  • It used to be believed that the parent had unlimited claims on the child and rights over him. In a truer view of the matter, we are coming to see that the rights are on the side of the child and the duties on the side of the parent.

    Children   Rights   Views  
    The Forgotten Man's Almanac 14 October (1919)
  • Working- and Middle-class families sat down at the dinner table every night - the shared meal was the touchstone of good manners. Indeed, that dinner table was the one time when we were all together, every day: parents, grandparents, children, siblings. Rudeness between siblings, or a failure to observe the etiquette of passing dishes to one another, accompanied by "please" and "thank you," was the training ground of behavior, the place where manners began.

    Larry McMurtry (1999). “Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen: Reflections at Sixty and Beyond”
  • The frantic search of five-year-olds for friends can thus be seen to forecast the beginnings of a basic shift in the parent-childrelationship, a shift which will occur gradually over many long years, and in which a child needs not only the support of child allies engaged in the same struggle but also the understanding of his parents.

  • 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
  • Ever since time began: What song is not about love? Whether it's about love from man to woman or parent to child, or grandmother to granddaughter... It just goes on and on. Or whether it's the love of one's country.

    Country   Song   Children  
    Interview with Gregg LaGambina, music.avclub.com. December 12, 2007.
  • We hear a great deal about the rudeness of the rising generation. I am an oldster myself and might be expected to take the oldsters' side, but in fact I have been far more impressed by the bad manners of parents to children than by those of children to parents.

    C. S. Lewis (1971). “The Four Loves”, p.54, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • And most of the failures in parent-child relationships, from my observation, begin when the child begins to acquire a mind and a will of its own, to make independent decisions and to question the omnipotence or the wisdom of the parent.

    Sydney J. Harris (1976). “Best of Sydney J. Harris”
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