Children need models rather than critics.
If a child lives with approval, he learns to live with himself.
If I had my child to raise all over again,I'd finger paint more, and point the finger less.I'd do less correcting, and more connecting.I'd take my eyes off my watch, and watch with my eyes.I would care to know less, and know to care more.I'd take more hikes and fly more kites.I'd stop playing serious, and seriously play.I'd run through more fields, and gaze at more stars.I'd do more hugging, and less tugging.I would be firm less often, and affirm much more.I'd build self esteem first, and the house later.I'd teach less about the love of power, and more about the power of love.
If you've never been hated by your child, you've never been a parent.
Your children need your presence more than your presents.
The best way to make children good is to make them happy.
If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.
Teach love, generosity, good manners and some of that will drift from the classroom to the home and who knows, the children will be educating the parents.
Setting a good example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age.
A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.
There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.
It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
Never fear spoiling children by making them too happy. Happiness is the atmosphere in which all good affections grow
If a child lives with acceptance and friendship, he learns to find love in the world
You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.
The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children.
The more people have studied different methods of bringing up children the more they have come to the conclusion that what good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is the best after all.
I don't remember who said this, but there really are places in the heart you don't even know exist until you love a child.
If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement, and mystery of the world we live in.
In spite of the six thousand manuals on child raising in the bookstores, child raising is still a dark continent and no one really knows anything. You just need a lot of love and luck - and, of course, courage.
Human beings are the only creatures on earth that allow their children to come back home.
Live so that when your children think of fairness, caring, and integrity, they think of you.
If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.
The end product of child raising is not the child but the parent.
There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.
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