If your children look up to you, you’ve made a success of life’s biggest job.

When parents spoil their children, it is less to please them than to please themselves. It is the egotism of parental love.

The easiest way to teach children the value of money is to borrow some from them.

Discipline doesn’t break a child’s spirit half as often as the lack of it breaks a parent’s heart.

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

Children who avoid the mistakes their parents made often make the mistakes their parents avoided.

One of the first things one notices in a backward country is that children are still obeying their parents.

About all some parents accomplish in life is to send a child to Harvard.

If our boys and girls are not so good as they were when you were a child their age, it may be that they had a much better mother and dad than your child has.

There may be some doubt as to who are the best people to have children, but there can be no doubt that parents are the worst.