Here you will find words of wisdom on child rearing.



Train your child in the way in which you know you should have gone yourself.
C.H. Spurgeon


As a mother, my job is to take care of the possible and trust God with the impossible.
Ruth Bell Graham


Where parents do too much for their children,the children will not do much for themselves.
Elbert Hubbard


Simply having children does not make mothers.
John A. Shedd

When we set an example of honesty our children will be honest. When we encircle them with love they will be loving. When we pracitce tolerance they will be talerant. When we meet life with laughter and a twinkle in our eye they will develop a sense of humor.
Wilferd A. Peterson

If it is desirable that children be kind, appreciative, and pleasant those qualities should be taught-not hoped for.

James Dobosn

The best things you can give children, next to good habits, are good memories.
Sydney J. Harris

If you want a baby, have a new one. Don't baby the old one.
Jessamyn West

All that I am or hope to be, I owe to my mother.
Abraham Lincoln

You can give without loving , but you cannot love without giving.
Glen Wheeler

A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

An infallible way to make your child miserable is to satisfy all his demands.
Henry Home

Many parents are finding out that a pat on the back helps develop character - if given often enough, early enough, and low enough.
Glen Wheeler

The darn trouble with cleaning the house is it gets dirty the next day, so skip a week if you have to. The children are the most important thing.
Barbara Bush

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