Parents Quotes

My dear Watson, you as a medical man are continually gaining lights as to the tendencies of a child by the study of the parents. Don’t you see that the converse is equally valid? I have frequently gained my first real insight into the character of parents by studying their children.

At a good Table we may go to School.

Children have more need of models than of critics.

Parents forgive their children least readily for the faults they themselves instilled in them.

There is not so much comfort in the having of children as there is sorrow in parting with them.

The most assiduous task of parenting is to divine the difference between boundaries and bondage.

The secret of Education lies in respecting the pupil. It is not for you to choose what he shall know, what he shall do. It is chosen and foreordained, and he only holds the key to his own secret… Respect the child. Wait and see the new product of Nature. Nature loves analogies, but not […]

I do not believe that children should have to pay for the shortcoming and inequities of the society into which they were born. I do not think that children should have to pay for the real or supposed sins of their parents. And I think it would be shortsighted of a society to produce, by […]

You will always be your child’s favorite toy.

Oh, what a power is motherhood, possessing a potent spell. All women alike fight fiercely for a child.