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~ Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only gave life, those the art of living well. ~ ~ The world talks to the mind. Parents speak more intimately -- they talk to the heart. ~ ~ The debt of gratitude we owe our mother and father goes forward, not backward. What we owe our parents is the bill presented to us by our children.
~ ~ Any kid who has two parents who are interested in him
and a houseful of books isn't poor.
~ ~ Children are natural mimics who act like their parents despite every effort to teach them good manners. ~ ~ Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes, they forgive them ~ ~ 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 ~ ~ Little League baseball is a very good thing because it keeps the parents off the streets ~ ~ I wish my parents had spent more time worrying about my education than me being a star ~ ~ A boy becomes an adult three years before his parents think he does, and about two years after he thinks he does ~ ~ Water helped ancient man learn those first lessons about the rights of others and responsibility to a larger society.... It became part of the moral and mental legacy parents passed on to their children ~ ~ Treat the earth well: it was not given to you by your parents, it was loaned to you by your children. We do not inherit the Earth from our Ancestors, we borrow it from our Children. ~ ~ A child wants some kind of undisrupted routine or rhythm. He seems to want a predictable, orderly world. For instance, injustice, unfairness or inconsistency in the parents seems to make a child feel anxious and unsafe. This attitude may not be so mu. ~ ~ We never know the love of our parents for us until we have become parents. ~ ~ Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment, and especially on their children, than the unlived life of their parents. ~ ~ They say that we are better educated than our parents' generation. What they mean is that we go to school longer. They are not the same thing. ~ ~ Parents can plant magic in a child's mind through certain words spoken with some thrilling quality of voice, some uplift of the heart and spirit. ~ ~ Thatís sort of a clichÈ about parents. We all believe that our children are the most beautiful children in the world. But the thing is, what no one really talks about is the fact that we all really believe it. ~ ~ The truth is that parents are not really interested in justice. They just want quiet. ~ ~ Chance makes our parents, but choice makes our friends ~ ~ To understand your parents' love you must raise children yourself. ~ ~ Where parents do too much for their children, the children will not do much for themselves. ~ ~ It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength. ~ ~ The joys of parents are secret, and so are their griefs and fears: they cannot utter the one, nor will they utter the other ~ ~ 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. ~ ~ I believe that we parents must encourage our children to become educated, so they can get into a good college that we cannot afford. ~ ~ I don't think my parents liked me. They put a live teddy bear in my crib. ~ ~ Some parents could do more for their children by not doing so much for them ~ ~ To maintain a joyful family requires much from both the parents and the children. Each member of the family has to become, in a special way, the servant of the others. ~ ~ The parents exist to teach the child, but also they must learn what the child has to teach them; and the child has a very great deal to teach them ~ |
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