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| You don’t really understand human nature unless you know why a child on a merry-go-round will wave at his parents every time around – and why his parents will always wave back. ~ William D. Tammeus |
| Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body. ~ Elizabeth Stone |
| Always kiss your children goodnight – even if they’re already asleep. ~ H. Jackson Brown |
| When you have brought up kids, there are memories you store directly in your tear ducts. ~ Robert Brault |
| Parenthood: That state of being better chaperoned than you were before marriage. ~ Marcelene Cox |
| Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children, and no theories. ~ John Wilmot |
| It would seem that something which means poverty, disorder and violence every single day should be avoided entirely, but the desire to beget children is a natural urge. ~ Phyllis Diller |
| To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while. ~ Josh Billings |
| There comes a time when a woman needs to stop thinking about her looks and focus her energies on raising her children. This time comes at the moment of conception. A child needs a role model, not a supermodel. ~ Astrid Alauda |
| Your children need your presence more than your presents. ~ Jesse Jackson |
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| 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. ~ Joyce Maynard |
| Don’t worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you. ~ Robert Fulghum |
| Parents often talk about the younger generation as if they didn’t have anything to do with it. ~ Haim Ginott |
| The trouble with learning to parent on the job is that your child is the teacher. ~ Robert Brault |
| It behooves a father to be blameless if he expects his child to be. ~ Homer |
| If you have never been hated by your child you have never been a parent. ~ Bette Davis |
| It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn’t. ~ Barbara Kingsolver, |
| Diogenes struck the father when the son swore. ~ Robert Burton, "Anatomy of Melancholy," |
| Children are a great comfort in your old age – and they help you reach it faster, too. ~ Lionel Kauffman |
| Most of us become parents long before we have stopped being children. ~ Mignon McLaughlin, |
| If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders. ~ Abigail Van Buren |
| The quickest way for a parent to get a child’s attention is to sit down and look comfortable. ~ Lane Olinghouse |
| 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. ~ C.G. Jung, |
| Don’t handicap your children by making their lives easy. ~ Robert A. Heinlein |
| Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve. ~ Roger Lewin |
| Simply having children does not make mothers. ~ John A. Shedd |
| Although there are many trial marriages… there is no such thing as a trial child. ~ Gail Sheehy |
| Children have more need of models than of critics. ~ Carolyn Coats, |
| The beauty of "spacing" children many years apart lies in the fact that parents have time to learn the mistakes that were made with the older ones – which permits them to make exactly the opposite mistakes with the younger ones. ~ Sydney J. Harris |
| There are two lasting bequests we can give our children. One is roots. The other is wings. ~ Hodding Carter |