These six words can save your child so much unnecessary pain: "I love you as you are". @ -Scott Barry Kaufman
Children are the anchors that hold the mother to life. @ -Sophocles
Being a mother means that your heart is no longer yours; it wanders wherever your children do. @ -George Bernard Shaw
You may think the grass is greener on the other side, but if you take the time to water your own grass it would be just as green.
I love you. Never question that.
You cannot fix your children and you cannot plan their lives. You can guide, support, nurture and love them in the best way you can. @ -Iyanla Vanzant
Parenting is the biggest sacrifice one can make. It's putting your life on hold to fulfill the promise of your children's tomorrow.
There's someone around you who looks up to you. They may be struggling, full of doubt or afraid. You can change their life with four words. "I believe in you". Said at the right time, those are the most powerful words in the world. @ -Johnny Uzan
While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about. @ -Angela Schwindt
Your children need your presence more than your presents. @ -Jesse Jackson
Children are mirrors, they reflect back to us all we say and do. @ -Pam Leo
A child can teach an adult three things... To be happy for no reason. To always be busy with something. And to know how to demand with all his might that which he desires. @ -Paulo Coelho
Coach me and I will learn. Challenge me and I will grow. Believe in me and I will win.
If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them and half as much money. @ -Abigail Van Buren
If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent. @ -Bette Davis
It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men. @ -Frederick Douglas
Parents focus too much on grades and goals, and too little on generosity. Kids raised to be kind are more successful in school and work — and happier too. At family dinner, don't just ask kids what they achieved. Ask who they helped and who helped them. @ -Adam Grant
Our children are watching how we live far more than they are hearing what we say. They are learning how to live by our choices, not by our words. @ -L.R. Knost
A child's mental health is just as important as their physical health and deserves the same quality of support. @ -Kate Middleton
We worry about what a child will become tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today. @ -Stacia Tauscher
Our days are happier when we give people a bit of our heart rather than a piece of our mind.
Best parenting advice I can give: Get your own life together so you pass on as little of your own baggage as possible. The less weight your kids start with the more opportunities they'll have. @ -Mark Allan Bovair
Parents are the ultimate role models for children. Every word, every movement, and action affects. No other person or outside force has a greater influence on a child than a parent. @ -Bob Keeshan
Teach your children they're unique. That way, they won't feel pressured to be like everybody else. @ -Cindy Cashman
Children learn more from what you are, than what you teach. @ -W.E.B. Du Bois
Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy. @ -Robert A. Heinlein
The sign of great parenting is not the child's behavior. The sign of truly great parenting is the parent's behavior. @ -Andy Smithson
A child can ask questions that a wise man cannot answer.
More kids are ruined by the behavior of their parents than by the amount they inherit. Children learn from your actions. @ -Warren Buffett
When in doubt, choose the kids. There will be plenty of time later to choose work. @ -Anna Quindlen
If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others. @ -Haim Ginott
Always smile back at little children. To ignore them is to destroy their belief that the world is good. @ -Pam Brown
The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence. @ -Denis Waitley
Children must be taught how to think, not what to think. @ -Margaret Mead
Children will listen to you after they feel listened to. @ -Jane Nelsen
The goal of raising children should be to create adults with the proper balance of self-love and discipline. @ -Bill Masur
If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales. @ -Albert Einstein
Children make you want to start life over. @ -Muhammad Ali
A person's a person, no matter how small. @ -Dr. Seuss
A child is an uncut diamond. @ -Austin O'Malley
Having a two-year-old is like having a blender that you don't have the top for. @ -Jerry Seinfeld
Children re-invent your world for you. @ -Susan Sarandon
Strengthen a parent and you strengthen a child. @ -Fred Rogers
Mothers are the only ones that think nothing is beyond their control when it comes to their children. @ -Ali Fazal
Now is the time to make tomorrow's greatest memories. @ -Josh Misner
Being in shape is one of the greatest gifts you'll ever give your children. @ -Dan Go
It is not what you do for your children, but what you have taught them to do for themselves, that will make them successful human beings. @ -Ann Landers
There are not perfect parents just as there are no perfect children. @ -Fred Rogers
Children make your life important. @ -Erma Bombeck
Childhood is messy and beautiful. @ -Rachel Martin
It takes a village to raise a child. @ -African Proverb
Kids will follow your example. Not your advice. Don't just tell them to: do more physical activity, eat healthier food, get outside more, do the right thing, be kind to others, read books. Make sure you are doing these things so your kids will follow. Lead by example. @ -Jack Coulson
Empathy is when a person accurately communicates that they see another's intentions and emotional state. It means watching our child's frustration and focusing on how life feels in that little child's body, while putting our own anger and agenda into the background. @ -Andrea Nair
A parents words become the children's thoughts. @ -Bill Masur
A child seldom needs a good talking to as a good listening to. @ -Robert Brault
One generation plants the trees; another gets the shade.  @ -Chinese Proverb
Children are our most valuable resource. @ -Herbert Hoover
Let kids be kids. @ -David Perell
One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world. @ -Malala Yousafzai
Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier. @ -Mother Teresa
Most parents : "Be safe". Wise parents : "Become strong". @ -Fateh Singh
Encourage talking. @ -David Perell
When parents are too hands-on, kids fail to learn self-reliance. Instead of hovering like a helicopter parent, try submarine parenting: give kids the freedom to explore and surface if there's a distress signal. @ -Adam Grant
Mostly you just have to keep plugging and keep loving — and hoping that your child forgives you according to how you loved him, judged him, forgave him, and stood watching over him as he slept, year after year. @ -Ben Stein
Teach your kids about money before they're old enough to earn their own. @ -Morgan Housel
You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance. @ -Franklin P. Jones
The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom. @ -Henry Ward Beecher
Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them. @ -James Baldwin
Insanity is hereditary; you get it from your children. @ -Sam Levenson
Children are the keys of paradise. @ -Eric Hoffer
Kids don't learn from people they don't like. @ -Rita F. Pierson
The joy of mentoring isn't in seeing your proteges follow in your footsteps. It's in helping them discover and develop their own principles and passions. @ -Adam Grant
Replace a goal of obedience with one of connection and trust instead. Children are drawn to follow those to whom they are emotionally connected. By parenting not for obedience but for relationship, kids are naturally inclined to follow your lead. @ -Kelly Bartlett
To every child - I dream of a world where you can laugh, dance, sing, learn, live in peace and be happy. @ -Malala Yousafzai
Children's lives should be good, not easy.
The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering. @ -Benjamin Spock
Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man. @ -Rabindranath Tagore
Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them. @ -Lady Bird Johnson
History will judge us by the difference we make in the everyday lives of children. @ -Nelson Mandela
Our most important task as a nation is to make sure all our young people can achieve their dreams. @ -Barack Obama
Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow. @ -A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence. @ -Plato
To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded. @ -Ralph Waldo Emerson
There's power in looking silly and not caring that you do. @ -Amy Poehler
Even if people are still very young, they shouldn't be prevented from saying what they think. @ -Anne Frank
You really have to be yourself. The best thing that you can do, for anybody, is just to offer one more honest adult in their lives. @ -Fred Rogers
Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist. @ -Michael Levine
If you want to inhibit kids' growth, keep telling them they are smart. If you want to give compliments and nurture growth, praise their curiosity and efforts.
Children aren't coloring books. You don't get to fill them with your favorite colors. @ -Khaled Hosseini
What is a home without children? Quiet. @ -Henny Youngman
Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society. @ -Benjamin Franklin
Children are one third of our population and all of our future.
Children need models rather than critics. @ -Joseph Joubert
Where did we ever get the crazy idea that in order to make children do better, first we have to make them feel worse? Think of the last time you felt humiliated or treated unfairly. Did you feel like cooperating or doing better? @ -Jane Nelson
A child miseducated is a child lost. @ -John F. Kennedy
A home with a loving and loyal husband and wife is the supreme setting in which children can be reared in love and righteousness and in which the spiritual and physical needs of children can be met. @ -David A. Bednar
There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One is roots; the other, wings. @ -Hodding Carter
One of the greatest titles in the world is a parent, and one of the biggest blessings in the world is to have parents to call mom and dad. @ -Jim DeMint
I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it. @ -Harry S. Truman
Adults follow paths. Children explore. @ -Neil Gaiman
What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child. @ -George Bernard Shaw
