Pretty much all the honest truth telling in the world is done
by childen.
The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant-and let the air out of their tires.
Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.
Children are a poor man's riches.
Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things --wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its earth to concrete... babies are almost the only remaining link with nature, with the natural world of living things from which we spring.
There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.
It is amazing how quickly the kids learn to drive a car, yet are unable to understand the lawnmower, snow-blower, or vacuum cleaner.
Children are curious and are risk takers. They have lots of courage. They venture out into a world that is immense and dangerous. A child initially trusts life and the processes of life.
The only moral lesson which is suited for a child, the most important lesson for every time of life, is this: "Never hurt anybody."
Parents are often so busy with the physical rearing of children that they miss the glory of parenthood, just as the grandeur of the trees is lost when raking leaves.
"I have a dream, that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. I have a dream today!"
Your children will see what you're all about by what you live rather than what you say.
A child is not a salmon mousse. A child is a temporarily disabled and stunted version of a larger person, whom you will someday know. Your job is to help them overcome the disabilities associated with their size and inexperience so that they get on with being that larger person.
Children need love, especially when they don't deserve it.
One of the most obvious facts about grownups to a child is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child.
Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent ages as much as 20 years.
The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
You hear a lot of dialogue on the death of the American family. Families aren't dying. They're merging into big conglomerates
A child miseducated is a child lost.
Parents are not quite interested in justice, they are interested in quiet.
"There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One is roots; the other, wings."
Have children while your parents are still young enough to take care of them.
An advantage to having one child is you always know who did it.
Before I was married I had six theories about raising children. now I have six children and no theories.
Most parents find it very hard to be consistent - except when it come to losing their temper.
I didn't make the same mistakes my parents made when they raised me. I was too busy making new ones.
The quickest for a parent to get a child's attention is to sit down and look comfortable.
Setting a good example for Children takes all the fun out of middle age.
Parents: A pecuilar group who first try to get their children to walk and talk, and then try to get them to sit down and shut up.
"My childhood should have taught me lessons for my own parenthood, but it didn't because parenting can be learned only by people who have no children."
"You can tell a child is growing up when he stops asking where he came from and starts refusing to tell where he is going."
"A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary."
"If you want your children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders."