One of the best things in the world to be is a boy; it requires no experience, but needs some practice to be a good one.
Children Quotes
The best way to make children good is to make them happy.
The burnt child shuns the fire. Until next day.
A boy has a natural genius for combining business with pleasure.
Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.
We are always too busy for our children; we never give them the time or interest they deserve. We lavish gifts upon them; but the most precious gift, our personal association, which means so much to them, we give grudgingly.
I see the mind of a five-year-old as a volcano with two vents: destructiveness and creativeness.
We have named it Cain. She caught it while I was up country trapping; caught it in the timber a couple of miles from our dug-out – or it might have been four, she isn’t certain which. It resembles us in some ways, and may be a relation. That is what she thinks, but this […]
Childhood is short, maturity is forever. (“Calvin and Hobbes”)
Confucius said, “Obey your father and mother.” He did not mean though, “Obey them right or wrong.” A good child protects the good name of his or her parents by refusing to obey any order that is seriously wrong.
