• The most important thing that parents can teach their children is how to get along without them.   Frank A. Clark

 

• All children behave as well as they are treated.  Anonymous

 

• Stop trying to perfect your child, but keep trying to perfect your relationship with him.  Dr. Henker 

   

• Life affords no greater responsibility, no greater privilege, than the raising of the next generation.  C. Everett Koop

   

• Praise your children openly, reprehend them secretly.  W. Cecil

   

• Parents need to fill a child’s bucket of self-esteem so high that the rest of the world can’t poke enough holes to drain it dry.  Alvin Price

   

• Discipline doesn’t break a child’s spirit half as often as the lack of it breaks a parents heart.  Anonymous

   

• Discipline your son in his early years while there is still hope. If you don’t you will ruin his life. Anonymous

   

• It is better to bind your children to you by a feeling of respect and by gentleness, than by fear.  Terence

   

• To understand your parents’ love you must raise children yourself.  Chinese Proverb

   

• The best way to make children good is to make them happy.  Oscar Wilde

   

• Whoever said it first spoke with insight and wisdom: you don’t own children, you only borrow them.  Anne Linn

   

• To be in your children’s memories tomorrow, you have to be in their lives today. Anonymous

   

• First you have to teach a child to talk, then you have to teach it to be quiet.  Prochnow

   

• Your children will become what you are; so be what you want them to be.  David Bly 

   

• 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

   

• A truly appreciative child will break, lose, spoil, or fondle to death any really successful gift within a matter of minutes.  Russell Lynes

   

• There’s no point in being grown up if you can’t be childish sometimes. Dr. Who

   

• If your baby is beautiful and perfect, never cries or fusses, sleeps on schedule and burps on demand, an angel all the time, you’re the grandma. Theresa Bloomingdale

   

• I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.  Harry S. Truman

   

• A mother understands what a child does not say.  Jewish Proverb

   

• The quickest way for a parent to get a child’s attention is to sit down and look comfortable.  Lane Olinhouse 

   

• A father is someone who carries pictures where his money used to be.  Lion 

   

• Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother. Lin Yutang

   

• Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it.  Harold Hulbert

   

• A baby will make love stronger, days shorter, nights longer, bankroll smaller, home happier, clothes shabbier, the past forgotten, and the future worth living for.  Anonymous