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.
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.
The most important thing that parents can teach their children is how to get along without them.
Children do learn what they live. Then they grow up to live what they've learned.
It's not only children who grow. Parents do too.
Your children will become what you are; so be what you want them to be
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.
If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others.
Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.
Always kiss your children goodnight, even if they're already asleep.
To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while.
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
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.
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.
If you can give your child only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.
The best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.
Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.
The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.
There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.
I see my parents as tiny children who need love. I have compassion for my parents’ childhoods. I now know that I chose them because they were perfect for what I had to learn. I forgive them and set them free, and I set myself free.
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.
Think of your child, then, not as dead, but as living; not as a flower that has withered, but as one that is transplanted, and touched by a Divine hand, is blooming in richer colors and sweeter shades than those of earth.
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.
Wherever possible, home is by far the best nest until at least eight, ten or twelve. Psychologists and psychiatrists who understand child development would prefer an even later age. In a reasonably warm home, parent-child responses, the true ABC's of sound education, are likely to be a hundred times more frequent than the average teacher-child responses in a classroom.
There's always the syndrome of the parent-child relationship: when someone has known you since you were very young, it doesn't matter how much more independent, how much older or more mature you get - there is still that element, the dynamic of the relationship that is very hard to successfully transform, and that has nothing to do with the music-making, in the end.
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