Raising Children Quotes - Page 2

• In order to develop normally, a child requires progressively more complex joint activity with one or more adults who have an irrational emotional relationship with the child. Somebody's got to be crazy about that kid. That's number one. First, last and always.

  Urie Bronfenbrenner

  Children, Crazy, Kids

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• If the bringing of children into the world is today an economic burden, it is because the social system is inadequate; and not because God’s law is wrong. Therefore the State should remove the causes of that burden. The human must not be limited and controlled to fit the economic, but the economic must be expanded to fit the human.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Children, Law, Causes

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• Love your children-and let them know you love them. Children who experience love find it far easier to believe God loves them.

  Billy Graham

  Love, Family, God

  Billy Graham (2007). “The Journey: Living by Faith in an Uncertain World”, p.275, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Don't let yourself become so concerned with raising a good kid that you forget you already have one.

  Glennon Melton

  Children, Inspiration, Kids

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• I think what's important for kids to know is that your decisions here on earth matter, your behavior matters and how you treat other people matters.

  Matt Damon

  Inspirational, Children, Kids

  "Matt Damon: I Want to 'Raise My Four Girls to Be Strong Women' " by Jeanne Wolf, parade.com. October 21, 2010.

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• An adolescent does not rebel against her parents. She rebels against their power. If parents would rely less on power and more on nonpower methods to influence their children from infancy on, there would be little for children to rebel against when they become adolescents. The use of power to change the behavior of children, then, has this severe limitation: parents inevitably run out of power, and sooner than they think.

  Thomas Gordon

  Running, Children, Parenting

  "Parent Effectiveness Training: The Proven Program for Raising Responsible Children".

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• You do not have to make your children into wonderful people. You just have to remind them that they are wonderful people. If you do this consistently from the day they are born they will believe it easily.

  William Martin

  Inspirational, Children, Believe

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• Do not raise your children the way your parents raised you; they were born for a different time.

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Inspirational, Time, Children

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• Modern education is premised strongly on materialistic values. It is vital that when educating our children's brains that we do not neglect to educate their hearts, a key element of which has to be the nurturing of our compassionate nature.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Sympathy, Education

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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 person's a person, no matter how small.

  Dr. Seuss

  Inspirational, Life, Respect

  Dr. Seuss (1998). “Seuss-isms: Wise and Witty Prescriptions for Living from the Good Doctor”, Random House Books for Young Readers

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• Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three children and no theories.

  John Wilmot

  Funny, Leadership, Children

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• It is our genetic nature as a species to believe as young children that our parents and elders are right. We watch them to see what's what. Later on we can judge for ourselves and rebel if need be, but when we're just months old, or a year or two, and a parent looks at us with impatience, or disgust, or disdain, or just leaves us there to cry and doesn't answer us even though we're longing to be embraced and nurtured, we assume that something must be wrong with us. Unfortunately, at that age it's impossible to think there might be something wrong with them.

  Jean Liedloff

  Children, Self Esteem, Believe

  "An Interview with Jean Liedloff" by Chris Mercogliano, www.continuum-concept.org.

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• Cleaning up with children around is like shoveling during a blizzard

  Margaret Culkin Banning

  Funny, Children, I Love My Kids

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• Raising children uses every bit of your being - your heart, your time, your patience, your foresight, your intuition to protect them, and you have to use all of this while trying to figure out how to discipline them.

  Nicole Ari Parker

  Children, Heart, Discipline

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• If you had a free society you couldn't get people to go to war, if you had an intelligent type of upbringing in ones children. They would say; There must be many other ways of solving problems other then killing people.

  Jacque Fresco

  Children, War, Intelligent

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• Raising children is an enormously important part of life. I think one of the most important, or the most important, period.

  Eric Braeden

  Children, Thinking, Important

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Raising children is an incredibly hard and risky business in which no cumulative wisdom is gained: each generation repeats the mistakes the previous one made.

  Bill Cosby

  Funny, Family, Children

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

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• No one's raising children any more. To love a child, you've got to work for it. You have to change its diapers and feed it at night!

  Lauren Hutton

  Family, Children, Night

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  If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands?

  Milton Berle

  Funny, Mothers Day, Hilarious

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• Together as a nation, we have the obligation to put sunshine into the hearts of our little ones. They are our precious possessions. They deserve what happiness life can offer.

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.78, Pan Macmillan

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• When women are able to live in a safe and secure environment, they can participate effectively in the economy and society. This helps overcome poverty, reduces inequalities and is beneficial for children's nutrition, health and school attendance. Every woman and girl has the right to live in safety in her home and community.

  Helen Clark

  Girl, Children, Women

  "Tackling Violence Against Women and Girls: An Urgent Priority" by Helen Clark, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 25, 2013.

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• Having a baby is painful in order to show how serious a thing life is.

  Lisa See

  Life, Baby, Children

  Lisa See (2010). “Shanghai Girls”, p.150, A&C Black

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• Childhood should be carefree, playing in the sun; not living a nightmare in the darkness of the soul.

  Dave Pelzer

  Inspirational, Children, Unhappy Childhood

  Dave Pelzer (1993). “A Child Called It: One Child's Courage to Survive”, p.166, Health Communications, Inc.

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• Kids don't have a little brother working in the coal mine, they don't have a little sister coughing her lungs out in the looms of the big mill towns of the Northeast. Why? Because we organized; we broke the back of the sweatshops in this country; we have child labor laws. Those were not benevolent gifts from enlightened management. They were fought for, they were bled for, they were died for by working people, by people like us. Kids ought to know that.

  Utah Phillips

  Country, Song, Brother

  Interview with David Kupfer, progressive.org. September 1, 2003.

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