"My dad is the boss. . .until Grandma comes over. Then he’s just one of us." --a child in Kid’s Say the Greatest Things about God
The most important thing that parents can teach their children is how to get along without them.
- Frank A. Clark
"We should not use anger so often that it becomes an expected emotion. All of us, including our kids, love emotion. Once kids get used to a particular emotion—be it shame, anger, guilt, or love—that expected emotion becomes the emotion of choice." --Foster Cline and Jim Fay, Parenting with Love and Logic
We are apt to forget that children watch examples better than they listen to preaching. - Roy L. Smith
"Discipline is demanded of the athlete to win a game. Discipline is required for the captain running his ship. Discipline is needed for the pianist to practice for the concert. . . .If parents believe standards are necessary, then discipline certainly is needed to attain them." --Gladys Brooks, as quoted in The Gift of Family by Naomi Rhode
"Where will our country find leaders with integrity, courage, strength—all the family values—in ten, twenty, or thirty years? The answer is that you are teaching them, loving them, and raising them right now." --Barbara Bush
Your children need your presence more than your presents. - Jesse Jackson
"A child needs both to be hugged and unhugged. The hug lets her know she is valuable. The unhug lets her know that she is viable. If you’re always shoving your child away, they will cling to you for love. If you’re always holding them closer, they will cling to you for fear." --Polly Berrien Berends, Gently Lead
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. ~Rose Kennedy
The clash between child and adult is never so stubborn as when the child within us confronts the adult in our child. ~Robert Brault
What's done to children, they will do to society. ~Karl Menninger
In spite of the seven thousand books of expert advice, the right way to discipline a child is still a mystery to most fathers and... mothers. Only your grandmother and Ghengis Khan know how to do it. ~Bill Cosby
A child enters your home and for the next twenty years makes so much noise you can hardly stand it. The child departs, leaving the house so silent you think you are going mad. ~John Andrew Holmes
Parenthood is a lot easier to get into than out of. ~Bruce Lansky
Conscience is less an inner voice than the memory of a mother's glance. ~Robert Brault
No matter how calmly you try to referee, parenting will eventually produce bizarre behavior, and I'm not talking about the kids. ~Bill Cosby, Fatherhood, 1986
Praise your children openly, reprehend them secretly. - W. Cecil
It is better to bind your children to you by a feeling of respect and by gentleness than by fear. - Terence
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother, and the most important thing a mother can do for her children is to love their father. - Anonymous
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