The end product of child raising is not the child but the parent.
Parents Quotes
What a difference it makes to come home to a child!
Parents are by no means exempt from the intoxication of dominion.
Parents especially stepparents are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don’t fulfill the promise of their early years.
The character and history of each child may be a new and poetic experience to the parent, if he will let it.
How can children credit the assertions of parents, which their own eyes show them to be false? Few parents act in such a manner as much to enforce their maxims by the credit of their lives.
Parents are often so busy with the physical rearing of children that they miss the glory of parenthood, just as the grandeur of the trees is lost when raking leaves.
The young always have the same problem, how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.
Meanwhile they take me to New Jersey, bound and gagged, and my parents finally realize that I’m kidnapped. They snap into action immediately: they rent out my room.
Maternity is a matter of fact, paternity is a matter of opinion.
