Quotation About Children and Parent

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If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.  ~C.G. Jung, Integration of the Personality, 1939

Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy.  

~Robert A. Heinlein

Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.  ~Roger Lewin

Children have more need of models than of critics. 

~Carolyn Coats

The beauty of "spacing" children many years apart lies in the fact that parents have time to learn the mistakes that were made with the older ones - which permits them to make exactly the opposite mistakes with the younger ones.  

~Sydney J. Harris

There are two lasting bequests we can give our children.  One is roots.  

The other is wings.  

~Hodding Carter, Jr.

Do not ask that your kids live up to your expectations.  Let your kids be who they are, and your expectations will be in breathless pursuit. 

~Robert Brault

My mom used to say it doesn't matter how many kids you have... because one kid'll take up 100% of your time 

so more kids can't possibly take up more than 100% of your time.  

~Karen Brown

Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore,
And that's what parents were created for.
~Ogden Nash

What a child doesn't receive he can seldom later give. 

~P.D. James

If your children spend most of their time in other people's houses, you're lucky; if they all congregate at your house, you're blessed.  

~Mignon McLaughlin

If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others.  

~Haim Ginott

Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them. 

~Oscar Wilde

Never raise your hand to your kids.  It leaves your groin unprotected.  

~Red Buttons

Smack your child every day.  If you don't know why - he does.  

~Joey Adams


Kids spell love T-I-M-E.  

~John Crudele

A parent who has never apologized to his children is a monster.  

If he's always apologizing, his children are monsters.  

~Mignon McLaughlin

As parents, we guide by our unspoken example.  It is only when we're talking to them that our kids aren't listening.  

~Robert Brault

Raising children is like making biscuits:  it is as easy to raise a big batch as one, 

while you have your hands in the dough.  

~E.W. Howe

You see much more of your children once they leave home.  

~Lucille Ball

Your responsibility as a parent is not as great as you might imagine.  You need not supply the world with the next conqueror of disease or major motion-picture star.  If your child simply grows up to be someone who does not use the word "collectible" as a noun, you can consider yourself an unqualified success.  

~Fran Lebowitz,

A child, like your stomach, doesn't need all you can afford to give it. 

~Frank A. Clark

We worry about what a child will become tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today.  

~Stacia Tauscher


You can learn many things from children.  

How much patience you have, for instance.  

~Franklin P. Jones


In a dark moment I ask, "How can anyone bring a child into this world?"  And the answer rings clear, "Because there is no other world, 

and because the child has no other way into it."  

~Robert Brault

I brought children into this dark world because 

it needed the light that only a child can bring.  

~Liz Armbruster

A characteristic of the normal child is he doesn't act that way very often.  

~Author Unknown

A child can ask questions that a wise man cannot answer.  

~Author Unknown


Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it.  

~Harold Hulbert


Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn't music.  

~William Stafford


The world is as many times new as there are children in our lives. 

~Robert Brault

Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see.  

~Neil Postman

Even when freshly washed and relieved of all obvious confections, 

children tend to be sticky.  

~Fran Lebowitz


Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.  ~Rabindranath Tagore

A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm. 

~Bill Vaughan


If our American way of life fails the child, it fails us all.  

~Pearl S. Buck


In the United States today, there is a pervasive tendency to treat children as adults, and adults as children.  The options of children are thus steadily expanded, 

while those of adults are progressively constricted.  

The result is unruly children and childish adults.  

~Thomas Szasz

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

~Franklin P. Jones


Children make you want to start life over. 

~Muhammad Ali

Children seldom misquote.  In fact, they usually repeat word for word what you shouldn't have said.  

~Author Unknown

A little girl is sugar and spice and everything nice - 

especially when she's taking a nap.  

~Author Unknown


A child is a curly dimpled lunatic. 

~Ralph Waldo Emerson


In America there are two classes of travel - first class, and with children. 

~Robert Benchley

Little girls are cute and small only to adults.  To one another they are not cute.  

They are life-sized.  

~Margaret Atwood


While we try to teach our children all about life,
Our children teach us what life is all about.
~Angela Schwindt


What is a home without children?  Quiet.  

~Henny Youngman

A child seldom needs a good talking to as a good listening to. 

~Robert Brault,

If we would listen to our kids, we'd discover that they are largely self-explanatory.  ~Robert Brault

Do your kids a favor - don't have any.  

~Robert Orben


Children find everything in nothing; men find nothing in everything.  

~Giacomo Leopardi, Zibaldone Scelto

Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives. 

~Maya Angelou

Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing up is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.  

~Phyllis Diller


Anyone who thinks the art of conversation is dead ought to tell a child to go to bed.  ~Robert Gallagher


Any kid will run any errand for you if you ask at bedtime.  

~Red Skelton


The only thing worth stealing is a kiss from a sleeping child.  

~Joe Houldsworth

There's nothing that can help you understand your beliefs more than trying to explain them to an inquisitive child. 

~Frank A. Clark


If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers. 

~Edgar W. Howe


It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men. 

~Frederick Douglass

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