Your children need your presence more than your presents.
Always kiss your children goodnight, even if they're already asleep.
Life affords no greater responsibility, no greater privilege, than the raising of the next generation
The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.
The best way to make children good is to make them happy.
Your children will become what you are; so be what you want them to be
There is no way to be a perfect mother, and a million ways to be a good one.
At the end of the day, the most overwhelming key to a child's success is the positive involvement of parents.
My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.
The most important thing that parents can teach their children is how to get along without them.
The best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.
A mother has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.
There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.
Children do learn what they live. Then they grow up to live what they've learned.
If a child lives with acceptance and friendship, he learns to find love in the world
What good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is usually best after all.
What a child doesn't receive he can seldom later give.
Never fear spoiling children by making them too happy. Happiness is the atmosphere in which all good affections grow
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.
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