Children are our second chance to have a great parent-child relationship.

A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.

I regret not having had more time with my kids when they were growing up.

I don't think my parents liked me. They put a live teddy bear in my crib.

There are going to be moments today you don't like me. You'll get over it.

Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.

Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother.

Whatever happened to the good ole days, when children worked in factories?

You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.

My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.

My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.

As a child my family's menu consisted of two choices: take it or leave it.

We never know the love of the parent for the child till we become parents.

I think once you sign on to be a mother, that's the only shift they offer.

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

The relation between parents and children is essentially based on teaching.

We are all, I suppose, beholden to our parents - the question is, how much?

Relationships are complicated no matter what style of parenting you choose.

When you look at your life the greatest happinesses are family happinesses.

My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

My children are the reason I laugh, smile and want to get up every morning.

Everyone's generation probably feels like they're parenting in a better way.

Respect the child. Be not too much his parent. Trespass not on his solitude.

Teenagers are people who act like babies if they're not treated like adults.

(Cartoon caption:) I never really rallied after the birth of my first child.

Do remember to pick your battles when you start parenting your stepchildren.

Parenthood...It's about guiding the next generation, and forgiving the last.

The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any.

Too many people treat parenting like it's the 20th item on their to-do list.

Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.

Work at our responsibility as parents as if everything in life counted on it.

OF COURSE I'd like to be the ideal mother. But I'm too busy raising children.

It isn't the size of the family, it's the interactions of the members inside.

Parents are not interested in justice, they're interested in peace and quiet.

Let your kids observe you doing random acts of kindness, it can be contagious

In mere moments of togetherness, families forge their most indelibe memories.

A person soon learns how little he knows when a child begins to ask questions.

The truth about parenting is that the reality of our lives needs to be enough.

Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.

In general my children refuse to eat anything that hasn't danced in television.

The American Dream is not to own your own home, but to get your kids out of it.

Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.

Never raise your hand to your children - it leaves your midsection unprotected.

I thought that once we were out of the baby stage, parenting would be a breeze.

I'm trying to break any chain of negative parenting that I might have survived.

First you have to teach a child to talk, then you have to teach it to be quiet.

Biology makes us Mothers & Fathers, whats in the heart makes us Mom's and Dad's

To an adolescent, there is nothing in the world more embarrassing than a parent.

For a woman, a son offers the best chance to know the mysterious male existence.

Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.

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