Your children need your presence more than your presents.
You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.
Your children will become what you are; so be what you want them to be
Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.
The most important thing that parents can teach their children is how to get along without them.
Live so that when your children think of fairness, caring, and integrity, they think of you.
Life affords no greater responsibility, no greater privilege, than the raising of the next generation
If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.
If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others.
It is one thing to show your child the way, and a harder thing to then stand out of it
Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them.
If you've never been hated by your child, you've never been a parent.
If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.
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.
When my kids become wild and unruly, I use a nice, safe playpen. When they're finished, I climb out.
If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They came through you but not from you and though they are with you yet they belong not to you.
You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.
In the end, it's not what you do for your children but what you've taught them to do for themselves.
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