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The central struggle of parenthood is to let our hopes for our children outweigh our fears.

Ellen Goodman

Adolescence is perhaps nature's way of preparing parents to welcome the empty nest.

Karen Savage and Patricia Adams

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

King Edward VIII

The art of mothering is to teach the art of living to children.

Elain Heffner

For rarely are sons similar to their fathers: most are worse, and a few are better than their fathers.

Homer

Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same.

Pearl Buck (1892 - 1973)

It is a wise father that knows his own child.

William Shakespeare

To understand your parents' love you must raise children yourself.

Chinese Proverbs

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

Haim Ginott

My parents only had one argument in forty-five years. It lasted forty-three years.

Cathy Ladman

The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, and the second half by our children.

Clarence Darrow

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

Ogden Nash

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

Chinese Proverbs

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

Unknown

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

Amy Vanderbilt

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

Unknown

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

P. J. O\'Rourke

Children always assume the sexual lives of their parents come to a grinding halt at their conception.

Alan Bennett

We never know the love of our parents for us till we have become parents.

Henry Ward Beecher

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

Plato

Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.

John Locke

Listening to parents' advice is sort of like watching commercials. You know what's coming, you've heard it all before, it's a big bore, but you listen anyway

Unknown

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

Bette Davis

Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.

Oscar Wilde

Children learn to smile from their parents.

Shinichi Suzuki

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