Parents who are afraid to put their foot down usually have children who step on their toes.
Chinese Proverbs

Your folks are like God because you want to know they’re out there and you want them to approve of your life, still you only call them when you’re in a crisis and need something.
Chuck Palahniuk

There is only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it.
Chinese Proverb

Give me the life of the boy whose mother is nurse, seamstress, washerwoman, cook, teacher, angel, and saint, all in one, and whose father is guide, exemplar, and friend. No servants to come between. These are the boys who are born to the best fortune.
Andrew Carnegie

While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about.

Now the thing about having a baby – and I can’t be the first person to have noticed this – is that thereafter you have it.
Jean Kerr

Mother Nature is wonderful. Children get too old for piggy-back rides just about the same time they get too heavy for them.

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

If nature had arranged that husbands and wives should have children alternatively, there would never be more than three in a family.
Lawrence Housman

There may be some doubt as to who are the best people to have charge of children, but there can be no doubt that parents are the worst.
George Bernard Shaw

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

Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them.
P. J. O’Rourke

To understand your parents’ love you must raise children yourself.
Chinese Proverbs

It is paradoxical that many educators and parents still differentiate between a time for learning and a time for play without seeing the vital connection between them.
Leo F. Buscaglia

If you look deeply into the palm of your hand, you will see your parents and all generations of your ancestors. All of them are alive in this moment. Each is present in your body. You are the continuation of each of these people.
Thich Nhat Hanh

The joys of parents are secret, and so are their griefs and fears: they cannot utter the one, nor will they utter the other.
Francis Bacon

I feel like a defective model, like I came off the assembly line flat-out fucked and my parents should have taken me back for repairs before the warranty ran out.
Elizabeth Wurtzel

Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers.
Socrates

Chance makes our parents, but choice makes our friends.
Jacques Delille

Some parents really bring their children up; others let them down.

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.
Brian Tracy

Where parents do too much for their children, the children will not do much for themselves.
Elbert Hubbard

Because of their size, parents may be difficult to discipline properly.
P. J. O’Rourke

A parent who has never apologized to his children is a monster. If he’s always apologizing, his children are monsters.
Mignon McLaughlin

Many parents are finding out that a pat on the back helps develop character – if given often enough, early enough, and low enough.

The truth is that parents are not really interested in justice. They just want quiet.
Bill Cosby

It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.
Maya Angelou

Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person’s character lies in their own hands.
Anne Frank

Parents must get across the idea that “I love you always, but sometimes I do not love your behavior.
Amy Vanderbilt

You don’t really understand human nature unless you know why a child on a merry-go-round will wave at his parents every time around – and why his parents will always wave back.
William D. Tammeus

Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.
Elizabeth Stone

Children are natural mimics who act like their parents despite every effort to teach them good manners.

Always kiss your children goodnight – even if they’re already asleep.
H. Jackson Brown

A Daughter is a Little Girl who grows up to be a Friend.

Parenthood: That state of being better chaperoned than you were before marriage.
Marcelene Cox

It would seem that something which means poverty, disorder and violence every single day should be avoided entirely, but the desire to beget children is a natural urge.
Phyllis Diller

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

Parents often talk about the younger generation as if they didn’t have anything to do with it.
Haim Ginott

There comes a time when a woman needs to stop thinking about her looks and focus her energies on raising her children. This time comes at the moment of conception. A child needs a role model, not a supermodel.
Astrid Alauda

Your children need your presence more than your presents.
Jesse Jackson

It’s not only children who grow. Parents do too. As much as we watch to see what our children do with their lives, they are watching us to see what we do with ours. I can’t tell my children to reach for the sun. All I can do is reach for it, myself.
Joyce Maynard

Don’t worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.
Robert Fulghum

Most of us become parents long before we have stopped being children.
Mignon McLaughlin

Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children, and no theories.
John Wilmot

It behooves a father to be blameless if he expects his child to be.
Homer

If you have never been hated by your child you have never been a parent.
Bette Davis

It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn’t.
Barbara Kingsolver

Don’t handicap your children by making their lives easy.
Robert A. Heinlein

Children are a great comfort in your old age – and they help you reach it faster, too.
Lionel Kauffman

If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.
Abigail Van Buren

The quickest way for a parent to get a child’s attention is to sit down and look comfortable.
Lane Olinghouse

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

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

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

Simply having children does not make mothers.
John A. Shedd

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

Although there are many trial marriages… there is no such thing as a trial child.
Gail Sheehy

Children have more need of models than of critics.
Carolyn Coats

There are two lasting bequests we can give our children. One is roots. The other is wings. Hodding Carter

Parents, however old they and we may grow to be, serve among other things to shield us from a sense of our doom. As long as they are around, we can avoid the fact of our mortality; we can still be innocent children.
Jane Howard

Your children tell you casually years later what it would have killed you with worry to know at the time.
Mignon McLaughlin

The problem with children is that you have to put up with their parents.
Charles DeLint

Sing out loud in the car even, or especially, if it embarrasses your children.
Marilyn Penland

Parents, however old they and we may grow to be, serve among other things to shield us from a sense of our doom. As long as they are around, we can avoid the fact of our mortality; we can still be innocent children.
Jane Howard

A parent’s love is whole no matter how many times divided.
Robert Brault

Parents should conduct their arguments in quiet, respectful tones, but in a foreign language. You’d be surprised what an inducement that is to the education of children.
Judith Martin

Parents, however old they and we may grow to be, serve among other things to shield us from a sense of our doom. As long as they are around, we can avoid the fact of our mortality; we can still be innocent children.
Jane Howard

Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.
Charles R. Swindoll

How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child’s board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted.
Walter Scott

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

I phoned my grandparents and my grandfather said ‘we saw your movie’. ‘Which one?’ I said. He shouted ‘Betty, what was the name of that movie I didn’t like?’
Brad Pitt

Hi, we are Sum 41 and we’re just something your parents will never understand
Deryck Whibley

I find it easy to understand why the likes of Sarah-Louise end up going astray. Everybody hits that stage where the more your parents try to keep you close, the more you want to break free. But I was nowhere near as bad as Sarah-Louise is, although my mum might disagree.
Tina O’Brien

Rather than just a binary choice between grammar schools for some and secondary modern for others, it is far better to have wider diversity in schools and greater choice for parents
David Davis

Great families of yesterday we show, And lords whose parents were the Lord knows who (The True-Born Englishman)
Daniel Defoe

The best part about being friends with your parents is that no matter what you do, they have to keep loving you.
Natalie Portman

The problem with children is that you have to put up with their parents.
Charles DeLint

There is a strong chance that siblings who turn out well were hassled by the same parents. Robert Brault

‘I was always embarrassed because my dad wore a suit and my mother wore flat pumps and a cozy jumper while my friends’ parents were punks or hippies.’
Shirley Manson

Oliver Letwin has insulted the parents, teachers and pupils of every state school in the country.
Stephen Twigg

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

Aduation day is tough for adults. They go to the ceremony as parents. They come home as contemporaries. After twenty-two years of child-raising, they are unemployed.
Erma Bombeck