To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while.
Josh Billings
The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children.
King Edward VIII
The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
Sam Levenson
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 Truman
Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home.
Bill Cosby
A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly makes all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.
Theodore Roosevelt
If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others.
Haim Ginott
We're brought up, unfortunately, to think that nobody should make mistakes. Most children get de-geniused by the love and fear of their parents - that they might make a mistake. But all my advances were made by mistakes.
Buckminster Fuller
Parents who are both conscientious and realistic discover sooner or later that they cannot do the job to their own complete satisfaction, much less to their children's complete satisfaction.
Thomas Sowell
Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by children.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Boys will be boys, and so will a lot of middle-aged men.
Kin Hubbard
Our greatest responsibility is to be good ancestors.
Jonas Salk
If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.
Abigail Van Buren
Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
If you haven’t time to help youngsters find the right way in life, somebody with more time will help them find the wrong way.
Frank Clark
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up
Pablo Picasso
You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.
Franklin P. Jones
When a child asks to join the party, let him. When he wants to help clean the garage, find a way to include him. Of course, not every project or adult gathering is appropriate for every child. My observation is that the more wholesome an adult’s lifestyle, the fewer gatherings are off-limits to children.
Clancy Cross
It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
Frederick Douglass
I am convinced all of humanity is born with more gifts than we know. Most are born geniuses and just get de-geniused rapidly.
Buckminster Fuller
Discipline for sin, not for dirt. Don't mind dirt or a mess if your boys are busy and happy.
Sharon Bomgaars
This is the source.
When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.
Thomas Paine
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