Parenting Quotes - Page 6

• Loving a child doesn't mean giving in to all his whims; to love him is to bring out the best in him, to teach him to love what is difficult.

  Nadia Boulanger

  Children, Mean, Giving

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• No matter how calmly you try to referee, parenting will eventually produce bizarre behavior, and I'm not talking about the kids. Their behavior is always normal.

  Bill Cosby

  Family, Kids, Talking

  Bill Cosby (1987). “Fatherhood”, Berkley Publishing Group

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• Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Family, Mothers Day, God

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1853). “Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero”, p.317

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• Parenting tip: complement your child on something well done when they don't think you are looking!

  Kevin Heath

  Children, Thinking, Done

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• Never fear spoiling children by making them too happy. Happiness is the atmosphere in which all good affections grow

  Thomas Bray

  Appreciation, Children, Atmosphere

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• Whether or not you have children yourself, you are a parent to the next generation. If we can only stop thinking of children as individual property and think of them as the next generation, then we can realize we all have a role to play.

  Charlotte Sophia Kasl

  Children, Responsibility, Thinking

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• For a woman, a son offers the best chance to know the mysterious male existence.

  Carol Klein

  Son, Males, Chance

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• Children are human beings to whom respect is due, superior to us by reason of their innocence and of the greater possibilities of their future.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Innocence, Reason

  Maria Montessori (2013). “The Montessori Reader”, p.311, Simon and Schuster

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• The guys who fear becoming fathers don't understand that fathering is not something perfect men do, but something that perfects the man. The end product of child-raising is not the child but the parent.

  Frank Pittman

  Children, Dad, Father

  "Man Enough: Fathers, Sons, and the Search for Masculinity". Book by Frank Pittman, www.today.com. 1993.

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• My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.

  Quentin Crisp

  Fathers Day, Mother, Dad

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• The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.

  Benjamin Spock

  Children, Dad, Funny Parent

  Benjamin Spock, M.D. (2012). “Dr. Spock's Baby and Child Care, 9th Edition”, p.580, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• It's frightening to think that you mark your children merely by being yourself. It seems unfair. You can't assume the responsibility for everything you do --or don't do.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Being Yourself, Children, Responsibility

  Simone de Beauvoir (1968). “Les Belles Images”

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• You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father s. He's more particular. The father is always a Republican towards his son, and his mother's always a Democrat.

  Robert Frost

  Love, Funny, Mother

  Robert Frost, Elaine Barry (1973). “Robert Frost on writing”, Rutgers Univ Pr

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• I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home.

  Robert Orben

  Funny, Children, Home

  "Something Weird". Attributed in "St. Louis Post-Dispatch", (p. 1D), June 10, 1991.

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• It is amazing how quickly the kids learn to drive a car, yet are unable to understand the lawn mower, snowblower and vacuum cleaner.

  Ben Berger

  Inspirational, Funny, Hilarious

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• Parents are the bones on which children cut their teeth.

  Peter Ustinov

  Children, Cutting, Teeth

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• To maintain a joyful family requires much from both the parents and the children. Each member of the family has to become, in a special way, the servant of the others.

  Pope John Paul II

  Family, Children, Home

  Pope John Paul II, Tony Castle (1987). “The light of Christ: meditations for every day of the year”, Crossroad Pub Co

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• The voice of parents is the voice of gods, for to their children they are heaven's lieutenants.

  William Shakespeare

  Family, God, Meaningful

  William Shakespeare (2010). “Double Falsehood: Third Series”, p.118, A&C Black

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• Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.

  Plato

  Family, Children, Plato

  Plato, Charles Henry Augustus Bulkley (1876). “Plato's Best Thoughts: Compiled from Prof. Jowett's Translation of the Dialogues of Plato”, p.62

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• The important thing is to teach a child that good can always triumph over evil...

  Walt Disney

  Children, Evil, Important

  "Deeds Rather Than Words". Essay by Walt Disney, 1963.

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• The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children.

  King Edward VIII

  Children, America, Way

  Look 5 Mar. 1957

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• The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new.

  Rajneesh

  Mom, Mother, Baby

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• Infants and young children are not just sitting twiddling their thumbs, waiting for their parents to teach them to read and do math. They are expending a vast amount of time and effort in exploring and understanding their immediate world. Healthy education supports and encourages this spontaneous learning.

  David Elkind

  Encouraging, Education, Baby

  David Elkind (1987). “Miseducation: preschoolers at risk”, Alfred a Knopf Inc

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• A baby is born with a need to be loved - and never outgrows it.

  Frank A. Clark

  Love, Relationship, Valentines Day

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• To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while.

  Josh Billings

  Family, Children, Dad

  Josh Billings (1953). “Uncle Sam&s uncle Josh”

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