I wish either my father or my mother, or indeed both of them, as they were in duty both equally bound to it, had minded what they were about when they begot me.
Children Quotes
If parents would only realize how they bore their children!
A child should always say what’s true, And speak when he is spoken to; And behave mannerly at table, At least as far as he is able.
Parents who rob their children of limits hurt the development of something deep within their child: their capacity to care, to understand, and to show concern. From adversity, from limits, from “no’s,” and from expectations, children develop greater depths of empathy, compassion, and understanding. Without these experiences, they develop a one-dimensional view of the world […]
There are no seven wonders of the world in the eyes of a child. There are seven million.
In raising my children, I have lost my mind but found my soul.
Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.
We need to teach our children that they can’t cheat. There is no way to pull it off: You can’t lie to life. You may deceive your teacher about what you know, but you can’t deceive life. What you haven’t learned leaves a hole that nothing but that learning can fill and no amount of […]
It’s a great mistake, I think, to put children off with falsehoods and nonsense, when their growing powers of observation and discrimination excite in them a desire to know about things.
Children desperately need to know – and to hear in ways they understand and remember – that they’re loved and valued by mom and dad.
