Speak to your children as if they are the wisest, kindest, most beautiful and magical humans on earth, for what they believe is what they will become. @ -Brooke Hampton
Every father should remember one day his son will follow his example, not his advice. @ -Charles F. Kettering
These six words can save your child so much unnecessary pain: "I love you as you are". @ -Scott Barry Kaufman
If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent. @ -Bette Davis
There is no such thing as a perfect parent, so just be a real one. @ -Sue Atkins
Instead of buying your children all the things you never had, you should teach them all the things you were never taught. Material wears out but knowledge stays. @ -Bruce Lee
Be a strong woman. So your daughter will have a role model and your son will know what to look for in a woman when he's a man.
A mother's arms are more comforting than anyone else's. @ -Princess Diana
Because of you I am me.
A mother's greatest masterpiece is her children.
Being a mother means that your heart is no longer yours; it wanders wherever your children do. @ -George Bernard Shaw
The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence. @ -Denis Waitley
Coach me and I will learn. Challenge me and I will grow. Believe in me and I will win.
A child's mental health is just as important as their physical health and deserves the same quality of support. @ -Kate Middleton
Don't cut your child's wing and then later ask him to fly. @ -Haemin Sunim
Everything I am, you helped me be.
A mother is she who can take the place of all others but whose place no one can take.
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
What it's like to be a parent: It's one of the hardest things you'll ever do but in exchange it teaches you the meaning of unconditional love. @ -Nicholas Sparks
Behind every young child who believes in himself is a parent who believed first. @ -Matthew Jacobson
Parenthood... It's about guiding the next generation, and forgiving the last. @ -Peter Krause
Every child should be taught that life is unfair so that we don't end up with a bunch of adults who act like the world owes them something. @ -Preethi Kasireddy
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
It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men. @ -Frederick Douglas
A parents words become the children's thoughts. @ -Bill Masur
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
Mother is a verb. It's something you do. Not just who you are. @ -Cheryl Lacey Donovan
I am a strong woman because a strong woman raised me.
Your children need your presence more than your presents. @ -Jesse Jackson
Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children. @ -Charles R. Swindoll
Any man can be a father but it takes someone special to be a Dad. @ -Anne Geddes
When you teach your son, you teach your son's son. @ -The Talmud
Every child deserves a champion: an adult who will never give up on them, who understands the power of connection and insists they become the best they can possibly be. @ -Rita Pierson
The goal of raising children should be to create adults with the proper balance of self-love and discipline. @ -Bill Masur
Your success as a parent is not determined by whether your kids get into elite schools or prestigious professions. The real test of parenting is not what children achieve, but who they become — and how they treat others. @ -Adam Grant
The best inheritance a parent can give his children is a few minutes of his time each day. @ -O. A. Battista
I am proud of many things in my life but nothing beats being a parent.
If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others. @ -Haim Ginott
I love you. Never question that.
You have a lifetime to work, but children are only young once. @ -Polish Proverb
Life doesn't come with a manual, it comes with a mother.
Mothers are the people who love us for no good reason. And those of us who are mothers know it's the most exquisite love of all. @ -Maggie Gallagher
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
Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them. @ -Oscar Wilde
The most important thing that parents can teach their children is how to get along without them. @ -Frank A. Clark
More kids are ruined by the behavior of their parents than by the amount they inherit. Children learn from your actions. @ -Warren Buffett
The way we talk to our children becomes their inner voice. @ -Peggy O'Mara
When you are looking at your mother you are looking at the purest love you will ever know. @ -Charley Benetto
If at first you don't succeed, try doing it the way mom told you to in the beginning.
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
So much better if parents remember they don't own their children, merely borrow them from the universe for a few years. @ -Alain de Botton
God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers. @ -Rudyard Kipling
Fathering is not something perfect men do, but something that perfects the man. @ -Frank Pittman
Children's lives should be good, not easy.
No language can express the power and beauty and heroism of a mother's love. @ -Edwin Chapin
Look at things in terms of growth rather than perfection. @ -Thibaut
Being in shape is one of the greatest gifts you'll ever give your children. @ -Dan Go
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 have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them. @ -James Baldwin
Having a two-year-old is like having a blender that you don't have the top for. @ -Jerry Seinfeld
Bring up your son with affection till he is five years of age, then be strict with him for the next ten years, and when a son attains the age of sixteen, start treating him like a friend. @ -Chanakya
The love you give your kids will travel several generations into the future. @ -Thibaut
A mother understands what a child does not say. @ -Jewish Proverb
Snowplow parents prepare the road for kids. Responsible parents prepare kids for the road. Resilience is built not by eliminating struggle, but by normalizing it. Teach kids to see obstacles as temporary hurdles. @ -Adam Grant
Kids spell love T-I-M-E. @ -John Crudele
Everything I am you helped me to be.
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
My father didn't tell me how to live. He lived and let me watch him do it. @ -Clarence Budington Kelland
My understanding of the way a child grows is that you create the garden, you don't grow the flower. You can merely fertilize the earth and keep it soft and moist, and then the flower grows as best it can. @ -Ram Dass
A good way to prepare yourself for parenthood is to talk to rocks because they have similar listening habits. @ -Rodney Lacroix
You may give them your love but not your thoughts, for they have their own thoughts. @ -Kahlil Gibran
Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy. @ -Robert A. Heinlein
You're only as happy as your unhappiest child. @ -Andrew Rae
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
A father carries pictures where his money used to be. @ -Steve Martin
To understand your parents' love, you must raise children yourself.
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. @ -Anne Frank
Sometimes we love our children too much that we try protect them from all the hurts in the world, including disappointment. This is often a disappointment in itself.
A parent's love is whole no matter how many times divided. @ -Robert Brault
Unconditional love is when you would wholeheartedly do anything for someone. You would do it without them even asking. You would do it because you want to, because they mean that much to you.
There are two ways of spreading light. To be the candle, or the mirror that reflects it. @ -Edith Wharton
Let kids be kids. @ -David Perell
It's not possible to be a parent without having times of worry. @ -Fred Rogers
Most parents : "Be safe". Wise parents : "Become strong". @ -Fateh Singh
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
I am convinced that every effort must be made in childhood to teach the young to use their own minds. For one thing is sure: If they don't make up their minds, someone will do it for them. @ -Eleanor Roosevelt
Parenthood is a great way to develop a leader's mentality. Whatever the circumstances, there's always one pair of eyes looking up to you. @ -Johnny Uzan
We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves. @ -Henry Ward Beecher
Respect all the reasonable forms of activity in which the child engages and try to understand them. @ -Maria Montessori
Mothers are the only ones that think nothing is beyond their control when it comes to their children. @ -Ali Fazal
Children aren't coloring books. You don't get to fill them with your favorite colors. @ -Khaled Hosseini
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
It is admirable for a man to take his son fishing but there is a special place in heaven for the father who takes his daughter shopping. @ -John Sinor
What makes children happy doesn't always prepare them to be courageous, engaged adults. @ -Brené Brown
It's incredibly calming and centering to get up before your kids, even if you have to set an alarm on weekends. @ -Jeremy Anderberg
Kids need love, support and guidance. If you're too soft, they become lazy. If you're too demanding, they become imprisoned. @ -Maxime Lagacé
Children are a poor man's riches. @ -English Proverb
I got to grow up with a mother who taught me to believe in me. @ -Antonio Villaraigosa
Life is not meant to be easy, my child; but take courage: it can be delightful. @ -George Bernard Shaw
Tell kids stories about your failures. @ -Tim Elmore
Curious that we spend more time congratulating people who have succeeded than encouraging people who have not. @ -Neil deGrasse Tyson
Life starts out as partly destiny and partly free will, but then you have kids, and it's all destiny. @ -Robert Brault
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
6-year-olds should play outside and ask questions, not sit on a chair and memorize answers. @ -Johnny Uzan
To understand the baby's mind, it is absolutely essential to take the path of observation and discovery. @ -Maria Montessori
What I would like to give my daughter is the habit of living with freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not by exhortation. @ -Erica Jong
Motherhood: All love begins and ends there. @ -Robert Browning
Parents don't make mistakes because they don't care, but because they care so deeply. @ -T. Berry Brazelton
Your parents were your first fans and they are probably still your biggest supporters. Their encouragement and passion for your success will likely be instrumental along your journey toward greatness. @ -Darrin Wiggins
Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them. P. @ -J. O'Rourke
Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws. @ -Barbara Kingsolver
There are not perfect parents just as there are no perfect children. @ -Fred Rogers
We have to prepare the child for the path, not the path for the child. @ -Tim Elmore
Children are human beings to whom respect is due, superior to us by reason of their innocence and of the greater possibilities of their future… Let us treat them with all the kindness which we would wish to help to develop in them. @ -Maria Montessori
A father is the one friend upon whom we can always rely. @ -Emile Gaboriau
Evidence of good parenting: the child has no desire to be famous. @ -Alain de Botton
Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence. @ -Plato
Insanity is hereditary; you get it from your children. @ -Sam Levenson
One of the greatest dignities of humankind is that each successive generation is invested in the welfare of each new generation. @ -Fred Rogers
Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face. @ -George Eliot
We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future. @ -Franklin D. Roosevelt
A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no aw, no pity, it dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path. @ -Agatha Christie
As human beings, our job in life is to help people realize how rare and valuable each one of us really is, that each of us has something that no one else has – or ever will have – something inside that is unique to all time. It's our job to encourage each other to discover that uniqueness and to provide ways of developing its expression. @ -Fred Rogers
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
It's nice to have a career where you add value to the world. But raising competent and caring kids is one of society's greatest contributions. A whole generation is prioritizing work instead of their families. Y'all have been brainwashed. No wonder our society is struggling. @ -Ryan Stephens
Always kiss your children goodnight, even if they're already asleep. @ -H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Strengthen a parent and you strengthen a child. @ -Fred Rogers
You have no idea how strong my love is. @ -Elizabeth Gilbert
One of the universal fears of childhood is the fear of not having value in the eyes of the people whom we admire so much. @ -Fred Rogers
A mother feels empty when her child become self-sufficient. A father feels worthy when his child become self-sufficient. @ -Alex Sauer
Do I want to be a hero to my son? No, I would like to be a very real human being. That's hard enough. @ -Robert Downey Jr.
We're a nation of exhausted and overstressed adults raising overscheduled children. @ -Brené Brown
Everything depends on upbringing. @ -Leo Tolstoy
The greatness of the human personality begins at the hour of birth. @ -Maria Montessori
We must be what we wish our children to be. They will form their characters from ours. John S. @ -C. Abbott
The small hopes and plans and pleasures of children should be tenderly respected by grown-up people, and never rudely thwarted or ridiculed. @ -Louisa May Alcott
Children are made readers on the laps of their parents. @ -Emilie Buchwald
To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter. @ -Euripides
I don't think anyone can grow unless he's loved exactly as he is now, appreciated for what he is rather than what he will be. @ -Fred Rogers
Modern education is premised strongly on materialistic values. It is vital that when educating our children's brains that we do not neglect to educate their hearts, a key element of which has to be the nurturing of our compassionate nature. @ -14th Dalai Lama
One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters. @ -George Herbert
All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my mother. @ -Abraham Lincoln
The task of a parent: to acclimatise the child to the true (often horrific) nature of reality without it giving up hope or the will to live. @ -Alain de Botton
A father is a man who expects his son to be as good a man as he meant to be. @ -Frank A. Clark
When you look into your mother's eyes, you know that is the purest love you can find on this earth. @ -Mitch Albom
There's a world of difference between insisting on someone's doing something and establishing an atmosphere in which that person can grow into wanting to do it. @ -Fred Rogers
Your children will reap what you sow. @ -Virgil
Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago. @ -Warren Buffett
It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength. @ -Maya Angelou
Love as powerful as your mother's for you leaves its own mark. To have been loved so deeply... will give us some protection forever. @ -J.K. Rowling
If you're a parent and your child has no ambition to become famous, you're doing something right. @ -Alain de Botton
Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them. @ -Lady Bird Johnson
If you want to see the poor remain poor, generation after generation, just keep the standards low in their schools and make excuses for their academic shortcomings and personal misbehavior. But please don't congratulate yourself on your compassion. @ -Thomas Sowell
I wish with all my heart that every child could be so imbued with a sense of the adventure of life that each change, each readjustment, each surprise – good or bad – that came along would be welcomed as part of the whole enthralling experience. @ -Eleanor Roosevelt
The ability to develop self-control depends upon being able to accurately predict the consequences of your own behavior. That's why parental consistency is so important. Without it, a child wanders lost. @ -John Rosemond
The experience of raising young children – when they're happy, you're happy. @ -Naval Ravikant
Never is a man more of a man than when he is the father of a newborn. @ -Matthew McConaughey
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Parents aren't the people you come from. They're the people you want to be, when you grow up. @ -Jodi Picoult
Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves poison the fountain. @ -John Locke
It all starts in childhood. Neurons are wired together by our early childhood experiences. If you want a better world, teach the world better parenting. @ -Neil Strauss
You can't be wrong if you teach your kids playing, creating, listening, but most of all, loving. @ -Maxime Lagacé
The task isn't to tell children that they are amazing, it's to model for them how one might live a very decent, self-accepting, humour filled and confident life knowing one isn't anything of the sort – but fortunately, no one else is either. @ -Alain de Botton
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
No man stands taller than when he stoops to help a child. @ -Abraham Lincoln
My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it. @ -Quentin Crisp
The problem with teaching children to be unmaterialistic is that they become impossible to bribe. @ -Alain de Botton
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them become what they are capable of being. @ -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
At every stage of parenting, the worries of the previous stage feel madly exaggerated. @ -Alain de Botton
First your parents, they give you your life, but then they try to give you their life. @ -Chuck Palahniuk
Encourage talking. @ -David Perell
Don't force your kid to comply with the school's standards. Get him to find his own standards. Then hold him accountable. @ -Johnny Uzan
The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently. @ -Friedrich Nietzsche
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
Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist. @ -Michael Levine
The best way of killing a rose is to force it open when it is still only the promise of a bud. @ -José Saramago
A child learns quicker to talk than to be silent. @ -Norwegian proverb
There is no single effort more radical in its potential for saving the world than a transformation of the way we raise our children. @ -Marianne Williamson
We must do everything in our power to cease the behavior that makes children everywhere feel afraid. @ -Alice Walker
Love is pure and true; love knows no gender. @ -Tori Spelling
When my father didn't have my hand he had my back. @ -Linda Poindexter
He didn't realize that love as powerful as your mothers for you leaves its own mark. @ -J.K. Rowling
Question for parents: do you want to make your children safe, or strong? Jordan Peterson
True love is inexhaustible; the more you give, the more you have. And if you go to draw at the true fountainhead, the more water you draw, the more abundant is its flow. @ -Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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
Parenthood is the opiate of the masses. @ -Chuck Palahniuk
A father is someone you look up to, no matter how tall you grow.
You taught me the game and you taught me how to play it right. @ -Wade Boggs
There's no shame in fear. My father told me what matters is how we face it. @ -George R.R. Martin
One of the reasons we judge each other so harshly in this world of parenting is because we perceive anyone else who's doing anything differently than what we're doing as criticizing our choices. @ -Brené Brown
Teach your kids about money before they're old enough to earn their own. @ -Morgan Housel
Sometimes the poorest man leaves his children the richest inheritance. @ -Ruth E. Renkel
What really matters is helping others win, too, even if it means slowing down and changing our course now and then. @ -Fred Rogers
The heart of a father is the masterpiece of nature. @ -Antoine Francois Prevost
Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do. @ -Dr. Benjamin Spock
Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired it need not be deserved. @ -Erich Fromm
It is greed to do all the talking and never to listen. @ -Democritus
The best way, perhaps the only way, to change others is to become an example. @ -Naval Ravikant
I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection. @ -Sigmund Freud
The people who first feed us, hold us, play with us, and talk with us help us to begin to understand who we are and who we may become. A child's very birth cries out for acceptance and care. Without these early on, he cannot survive. @ -Fred Rogers
High standards, consistency, but most importantly, unconditional love, is what will help you raise good kids. @ -Maxime Lagacé
Dads are the most ordinary men turned by love into heroes adventurers story-tellers and singers of song. @ -Pam Brown
To be a parent is to be chief designer of a product more advanced than any technology and more interesting than the greatest work of art. @ -Alain de Botton
My parents are my backbone. Still are. They're the only group that will support you if you score zero or you score 40. @ -Kobe Bryant
There are no words that can describe the euphoria you feel when your baby recognizes you for the first time and smiles. @ -Jared Padalecki
You can't keep kids safe. The best thing that you can do is make them able and courageous. @ -Jordan Peterson
A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary. @ -Dorothy Canfield Fisher
The guy who inspired me to hit the gym was my dad. He never pushed me to go. I just saw him go every morning & that was enough. @ -Dan Go
He may have been your father, boy, but he wasn’t your daddy. @ -Yondu
You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not.
My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person: he believed in me. @ -Jim Valvano
The quality of a father can be seen in the goals, dreams and aspirations he sets not only for himself, but for his family. @ -Reed Markham
A father is a man who expects his children to be as good as he meant to be. @ -Carol Coats
True, unconditional, love is the province of parents and saints. @ -Naval Ravikant
Parents can really help, but they can also really hinder the development of their youngsters. @ -Mike Krzyzewski
The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering. @ -Benjamin Spock
Anyone can be a father but it takes someone special to be a dad and that's why I call you dad because you are so special to me. @ -Wade Boggs
For me, nothing has ever taken precedence over being a mother and having a family and a home. @ -Jessica Lange
Daddies don't just love their children every now and then it's a love without end. @ -George Straight
It is a wise father that knows his own child. @ -William Shakespeare
It is the responsibility of every adult to make sure that children hear what we have learned from the lessons of life and to hear over and over that we love them and that they are not alone. @ -Marian Wright Edelman
My dad's my best mate and he always will be. @ -Cher Lloyd
I love my father as the stars - he's a bright shining example and a happy twinkling in my heart. @ -Terri Guillemets
There is only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it. @ -Chinese Proverb
The more we shelter children from every disappointment, the more devastating future disappointments will be. @ -Fred G. Gosman
I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren't trying to teach us. We are formed by little scraps of wisdom. @ -Umberto Eco
Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed. @ -Maria Montessori
The young and the old don't understand each other perfectly, but the old understand the young better than the young understand the old. The old have been young, but the young haven't been old yet. @ -Paul Graham
All of our growth is rooted in the firm trust that all of those who first cared about us maintained. @ -Fred Rogers
Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood. @ -Fred Rogers
