I think Lincoln had a unique parenting style. He let his kids run free and wild.

Be original. The world will try to fit you into a mold, but carve your own path.

Children should be led into the right paths, not by severity, but by persuasion.

I think parenting is very different now. We're totally governed by our children!

Show as much interest in what your children tell you as they have in telling you.

Children do learn what they live. Then they grow up to live what they've learned.

A two-year-old is kind of like having a blender, but you don't have a top for it.

Family is a collective expression of individual perspective-a living work of art.

A picture excites the love of parenting that comes through meditation on a child.

The love of a parent for a child is the love that should grow towards separation.

The important thing is to teach a child that good can always triumph over evil...

(About parenting:) ... all that tedium, broken up by little spurts of high drama.

Don't bother discussing sex with small children. They rarely have anything to add.

You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.

You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.

You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.

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

The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.

There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.

The woods were my Ritalin. Nature calmed me, focused me, and yet excited my senses.

Should kids check phones at dinner? I don't know. To me, that's a parenting choice.

Neurotics build castles in the air, psychotics live in them. My mother cleans them.

Parents are teachers, guides, leaders, protectors and providers for their children.

No blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son.

As parenting goes, knowing the whereabouts of one's children is pretty fundamental.

Families don't have to match. You don't have to look like someone else to love them.

A lot of mothers will do anything for their children, except let them be themselves.

The trick is to enjoy life. Don't wish away your days waiting for better ones ahead.

There have been a lot of times when work and parenting conflicted for me. Every day.

In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

If a child lives with acceptance and friendship, he learns to find love in the world

All children will do things that you may not want them to. That's part of parenting.

Mann There are two kinds of people: those who GIVE energy and those who DRAIN energy.

Parenting is not for everybody. It changes your life. Especially when they're little.

Parents don't make mistakes because they don't care, but because they care so deeply.

I am always trying to evolve, so I like to read parenting books and things like that.

Of course, the ideal scenario for parenting is obviously two parents of a mature age.

Few things are more satisfying than seeing your children have teenagers of their own.

You may give them your love, but not your thoughts. For they have their own thoughts.

The parenting bit is much harder than the acting bit. You just never know what to do.

My earliest childhood memory was watching my parents loosen the wheels on my stroller.

Breasts are a scandal because they shatter the border between motherhood and sexuality

Children should have enough freedom to be themselves - once they've learned the rules.

When you are dealing with a child, keep all your wits about you, and sit on the floor.

I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw that my bath toys were a toaster and a radio.

It is one thing to show your child the way, and a harder thing to then stand out of it

Learning without thinking is useless, but thinking without learning is very dangerous!

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

I grew up with six brothers. That's how I learned to dance - waiting for the bathroom.

Likely as not, the child you can do the least with will do the most to make you proud.

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