Your children tell you casually years later what it would have killed you with worry to know at the time.

Never strike a child except in anger.

If your children spend most of their time in other people’s houses, you’re lucky; if they all congregate at your house, you’re blessed.

A child is not a vase to filled but a fire to be lit.

Teaching children to count is not as important as teaching them what counts.

How would you like to have you for a child?

Our children seem to have wonderful taste, or none – depending, of course, on whether or not they agree with us.

Give me a child for the first seven years, and you may do what you like with him afterwards.

Don’t talk to strangers, but love thy neighbor true I don’t know who’s the stranger and I don’t know what to do. Who’s who? Who’s who? Who’s the friend of mine? How can those I do not know be both at the very same time? If I do not know your name or your Mom […]

The more I encourage my child to think for himself, the more he will care what I think.