• The most important thing that parents can teach their children is how to get along without them. Frank A. Clark
• All children behave as well as they are treated. Jan Hunt

• Stop trying to perfect your child, but keep trying to perfect your relationship with him. Dr. Henker
• Life affords no greater responsibility, no greater privilege, than the raising of the next generation. C. Everett Koop
• Praise your children openly, reprehend them secretly. W. Cecil
• Parents need to fill a child's bucket of self-esteem so high that the rest of the world can't poke enough holes to drain it dry. Alvin Price
• Discipline doesn't break a child's spirit half as often as the lack of it breaks a parents heart. Anonymous
• Discipline your son in his early years while there is still hope. If you don't you will ruin his life. Anonymous
• It is better to bind your children to you by a feeling of respect and by gentleness, than by fear. Terence
• To understand your parents' love you must raise children yourself. Chinese Proverb
• The best way to make children good is to make them happy. Oscar Wilde
• Whoever said it first spoke with insight and wisdom: you don't own children, you only borrow them. Anne Linn
• To be in your children's memories tomorrow, you have to be in their lives today. Anonymous
• First you have to teach a child to talk, then you have to teach it to be quiet. Prochnow
• Your children will become what you are; so be what you want them to be. David Bly
• The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother, and the most important thing a mother can do for her children is to love their father. Anonymous
• A truly appreciative child will break, lose, spoil, or fondle to death any really successful gift within a matter of minutes. Russell Lynes
• There's no point in being grown up if you can't be childish sometimes. Dr. Who
• If your baby is beautiful and perfect, never cries or fusses, sleeps on schedule and burps on demand, an angel all the time, you're the grandma. Theresa Bloomingdale
• 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
• A mother understands what a child does not say. Jewish Proverb
• The quickest way for a parent to get a child's attention is to sit down and look comfortable. Lane Olinhouse
• A father is someone who carries pictures where his money used to be. Lion
• Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother. Lin Yutang
• Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it. Harold Hulbert
• A baby will make love stronger, days shorter, nights longer, bankroll smaller, home happier, clothes shabbier, the past forgotten, and the future worth living for. Anonymous

Children Learn What They Live - Dorothy Law Neite

If a child lives with criticism, he learns to condemn.
If a child lives with hostility, he learns to fight.
If a child lives with ridicule, he learns to be shy.
If a child learns to feel shame, he learns to feel guilty.
If a child lives with tolerance, he learns to be patient.
If a child lives with encouragement he learns confidence
If a child lives with praise, he learns to appreciate.
He a child lives with fairness, he learns justice.
If a child lives with security, he learns to have faith.
If a child lives with approval, he learns to like himself.
If a child lives with acceptance and friendship, he learns to find love in the world.