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Parenting Quotations, Misc.

Quotes on Parenting, misc. (not comedy... worth reading)

Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man. ~Rabindranath Tagore

What's done to children, they will do to society. ~Karl Menninger

The words that a father speaks to his children in the privacy of home are not heard by the world, but, as in whispering-galleries, they are clearly heard at the end and by posterity. ~Jean Paul Richter

There's nothing that can help you understand your beliefs more than trying to explain them to an inquisitive child. ~Frank A. Clark

Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see. ~John W. Whitehead, The Stealing of America, 1983

Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With no relatives, no support, we've put it in an impossible situation. ~Margaret Mead

The lack of emotional security of our American young people is due, I believe, to their isolation from the larger family unit. No two people - no mere father and mother - as I have often said, are enough to provide emotional security for a child. He needs to feel himself one in a world of kinfolk, persons of variety in age and temperament, and yet allied to himself by an indissoluble bond which he cannot break if he could, for nature has welded him into it before he was born. ~Pearl S. Buck

Children are one third of our population and all of our future. ~Select Panel for the Promotion of Child Health, 1981

Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they're going to catch you in next. ~Franklin P. Jones

Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it. ~Harold Hulbert

Your children need your presence more than your presents. ~Jesse Jackson

You don't really understand human nature unless you know why a child on a merry-go-round will wave at his parents every time around - and why his parents will always wave back. ~William D. Tammeus

Always kiss your children goodnight - even if they're already asleep. ~H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

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

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

Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you. ~Robert Fulghum

It behooves a father to be blameless if he expects his child to be. ~Homer

Children are a great comfort in your old age - and they help you reach it faster, too. ~Lionel Kauffman

Most of us become parents long before we have stopped being children. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966

If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders. ~Abigail Van Buren

If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves. ~C.G. Jung, Integration of the Personality, 1939

Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy. ~Robert A. Heinlein

Simply having children does not make mothers. ~John A. Shedd

Children have more need of models than of critics. ~Carolyn Coats, Things Your Dad Always Told You But You Didn't Want to Hear

There are two lasting bequests we can give our children. One is roots. The other is wings. ~Hodding Carter, Jr.

Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children. ~Charles R. Swindoll, The Strong Family

What a child doesn't receive he can seldom later give. ~P.D. James, Time to Be in Earnest

If your children spend most of their time in other people's houses, you're lucky; if they all congregate at your house, you're blessed. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966

If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others. ~Haim Ginott

Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them. ~Oscar Wilde

Kids spell love T-I-M-E. ~John Crudele

A parent who has never apologized to his children is a monster. If he's always apologizing, his children are monsters. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966

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. ~Frank Pittman, Man Enough

My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it. ~Quentin Crisp, The Naked Civil Servant, 1968

The hardest part of raising a child is teaching them to ride bicycles. A shaky child on a bicycle for the first time needs both support and freedom. The realization that this is what the child will always need can hit hard. ~Sloan Wilson

You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's. He is more particular.... The father is always a Republican towards his son, and his mother's always a Democrat. ~Robert Frost

Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father. ~Gloria Steinem, New York Times, 26 August 1971

Good, honest, hardheaded character is a function of the home. If the proper seed is sown there and properly nourished for a few years, it will not be easy for that plant to be uprooted. ~George A. Dorsey

Children are natural mimics who act like their parents despite every effort to teach them good manners. ~Author Unknown

Character is largely caught, and the father and the home should be the great sources of character infection. ~Frank H. Cheley

When you teach your son, you teach your son's son. ~The Talmud

There are no illegitimate children - only illegitimate parents. ~Leon R. Yankwich

A child enters your home and for the next twenty years makes so much noise you can hardly stand it. The child departs, leaving the house so silent you think you are going mad. ~John Andrew Holmes

Setting a good example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age. ~William Feather, The Business of Life, 1949

Your children vividly remember every unkind thing you ever did to them, plus a few you really didn't. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966

In bringing up children, spend on them half as much money and twice as much time. ~Author Unknown

Why are men reluctant to become fathers? They aren't through being children. ~Cindy Garner

If you don't believe in ghosts, you've never been to a family reunion. ~Ashleigh Brilliant

We all grow up with the weight of history on us. Our ancestors dwell in the attics of our brains as they do in the spiraling chains of knowledge hidden in every cell of our bodies. ~Shirley Abbott

In some families, please is described as the magic word. In our house, however, it was sorry. ~Margaret Laurence

An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship. ~Spanish Proverb

Our most basic instinct is not for survival but for family. Most of us would give our own life for the survival of a family member, yet we lead our daily life too often as if we take our family for granted. ~Paul Pearshall

The great advantage of living in a large family is that early lesson of life's essential unfairness. ~Nancy Mitford

The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family. ~Thomas Jefferson

Friends are God's apology for relations. ~Hugh Kingsmill

The informality of family life is a blessed condition that allows us to become our best while looking our worst. ~Marge Kennedy

We cannot destroy kindred: our chains stretch a little sometimes, but they never break. ~Marquise de Sévigné

Other things may change us, but we start and end with the family. ~Anthony Brandt

Family faces are magic mirrors. Looking at people who belong to us, we see the past, present, and future. ~Gail Lumet Buckley

In the United States today, there is a pervasive tendency to treat children as adults, and adults as children. The options of children are thus steadily expanded, while those of adults are progressively constricted. The result is unruly children and childish adults. ~Thomas Szasz

Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized. ~Margaret Atwood

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