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.
A lot of us who came of age in the 1960’s are very wary of authority. But you can’t be your child’s friend you have to turn into a parent.
If I could get to the highest place in Athens, I would raise my voice and say, “What mean ye, fellow citizens, that ye turn every stone to scrape wealth together, and take so little care of your children to whom ye must one day relinquish it all!”
We worry about what a child will be tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today.
