Quotes About Children

The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant, and let the air out of the tires.

The best way to make children good is to make them happy.

What God is to the world, that parents are to their children.

If help and salvation are to come they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.

The fact is that child rearing is a long, hard job, the rewards are not always immediately obvious, the work is undervalued, and parents are just as human and almost as vulnerable as their children.

All mothers think their children are oaks, but the world never lacks for cabbages.

The most beautiful sight in the world is a little child going confidently down the road of life after you have shown him the way.

What I love about kids is there innate ability to love unconditionally - we can all learn from this

Unconditional parenting: Moving from Rewards and Punishments to Love and Reason.

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

The Golden Rule of Parenting is; do unto your children as you wish your parents had done unto you!

The rules of parenting have changed. By the modern definition, we were a generation of neglected children.

Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they are going to catch you in next.

Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.

Your children are not your children, they come through you, but they are life itself, wanting to express itself.

The gain is not the having of children; it is the discovery of love and how to be loving.

Leave your pride, ego, and narcissism somewhere else. Reactions from those parts of you will reinforce your children's most primitive fears.

You can't make your kids do anything. All you can do is make them wish they had. And then, they will make you wish you hadn't made them wish they had.

Was it Gorky who had said, "If your children are no better than you are, you have fathered them in vain, indeed you have lived in vain".

There is nothing more dangerous than a lazy parent.

There is no single effort more radical in its potential for saving the world than a transformation of the way we raise our children.

In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt, as injustice.

Nobody ever becomes an expert parent. But I think good parenting is about consistency. Its about being there at big moments, but its also just the consistency of decision making. And its routine.

Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation.