When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them.

Minds are like parachutes, they only function when they are open.

Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.

What is a child? Ignorance. What is a child? Want of instruction.

Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.

The way you help heal the world is you start with your own family.

Don't feel entitled to anything you didn't sweat and struggle for.

Love begins by taking care of the closest ones - the ones at home.

The well-being and welfare of children should always be our focus.

The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears.

Parenting is one of the best management training programs there is.

The best gift, and investment, you can give your child is your time

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

My father wasn't really involved and my mom is the light in my life.

Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken.

Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.

We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves.

Every happy home has a foundation of love and a framework of support

It's impossible to protect your kids against disappointment in life.

Always kiss your children goodnight, even if they're already asleep.

Love is staying up all night with a sick child - or a healthy adult.

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

I suppose it's amazing how quick life goes by when you have children.

Don't try to make children grow up to be like you, or they may do it.

If you've never been hated by your child, you've never been a parent.

With parenting, like any other skill in life, practice makes perfect.

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

My parents taught me I could be anything in the world I wanted to be.

Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope.

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.

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

I realize that of all people, I am no expert on parenting or marriage.

Your children will become what you are; so be what you want them to be

Free the child's potential, and you will transform him into the world.

Because of their size, parents may be difficult to discipline properly.

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

There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.

Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them.

When I was born I was so surprised I didn't talk for a year and a half.

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

I figure if the kids are alive at the end of the day, I've done my job.

Having children is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.

The greatest tragedy of the family is the unlived lives of the parents.

People discuss parenting the way they talk about denominations of faith.

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

In parenting, as in judging, the days are long, but the years are short.

Insomnia: A contagious disease often transmitted from babies to parents.

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

Parenting now is a two-way relationship where you learn from each other.

Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.

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