To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
You see much more of your children once they leave home.
Children keep us in check. Their laughter prevents our hearts from hardening. Their dreams ensure we never lose our drive to make ours a better world. They are the greatest disciplinarians known to mankind.
In general my children refuse to eat anything that hasn't danced in television.
Ma-ma does everything for the baby, who responds by saying Da-da first.
Getting down on all fours and imitating a rhinoceros stops babies from crying. (Put an empty cigarette pack on your nose for a horn and make loud "snort" noises.) I don't know why parents don't do this more often. Usually it makes the kid laugh. Sometimes it sends him into shock. Either way it quiets him down. If you're a parent, acting like a rhino has another advantage. Keep it up until the kid is a teenager and he definitely won't have his friends hanging around your house all the time.
I believe that we parents must encourage our children to become educated, so they can get into a good college that we cannot afford.
When a child is locked in the bathroom with water running and he says he's doing nothing but the dog is barking, call 911.
There may be some doubt as to who are the best people to have charge of children, but there can be no doubt that parents are the worst.
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.
Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy.
I don't think my parents liked me. They put a live teddy bear in my crib.
You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's.
Setting a good example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age.
Children always assume the sexual lives of their parents come to a grinding halt at their conception.
Simply having children does not make mothers.
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 parents exist to teach the child, but also they must learn what the child has to teach them; and the child has a very great deal to teach them
A truly appreciative child will break, lose, spoil, or fondle to death any really successful gift within a matter of minutes.
I don't remember who said this, but there really are places in the heart you don't even know exist until you love a child.
A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm.
Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope.
Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth.
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.
Like all parents, my husband and I just do the best we can, hold our breath and hope we've set aside enough money for our kid's therapy.
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