Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.
It's not only children who grow. Parents do too.
You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.
Life affords no greater responsibility, no greater privilege, than the raising of the next generation
If you've never been hated by your child, you've never been a parent.
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.
There is no way to be a perfect mother, and a million ways to be a good one.
If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.
Whenever I held my newborn baby in my arms, I used to think that what I said and did to him could have an influence not only on him but on all whom he met, not only for a day or a month or a year, but for all eternity - a very challenging and exciting thought for a mother.
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.
Trust yourself, you know more than you think you do.
We never know the love of the parent for the child till we become parents.
Always kiss your children goodnight, even if they're already asleep.
Your children need your presence more than your presents.
To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while.
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.
I hate when new parents ask who the baby looks like. It was born 15 minutes ago, it looks like a potato
You will always be your child's favorite toy.
A new baby is like the beginning of all things - wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities.
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.
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