«Bringing up children»

Always kiss your children goodnight — even if they’re already asleep.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.

Roger Lewin

Don’t stand unmoving outside the door of a crying baby whose only desire is to touch you. Go to your baby. Go to your baby a million times. Demonstrate that people can be trusted, that the environment can be trusted, that we live in a benign universe.

Peggy O’Mara

Kids can be more creative and smarter if parents didn’t want them to be first & best.

(Write like no one is reading 2)

Megha Khare

If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.

(Integration of the Personality, 1939)

C.G. Jung

If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.

Abigail Van Buren

Do you not realize that your kids are going to make mistakes, and a lot of them? Do you not realize the damage you do when you push your son’s nose into his mishaps or make your daughter feel worthless because she bumped or spilled something? Do you have any idea how easy it is to make your child feel abject? It’s as simple as letting out the words, “why would you do that!?” or “how many times have I told you…

Dan Pearce, Single Dad Laughing

If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others.

Haim Ginott

Love your kids and just be there for them. You don’t have to eyeball their every moment or to orchestrate all their comings and goings. They know this. They know that’s too much. All they want is to be assured that there’s a home fire cooking, that there are two foremen and a rulebook, and that there’s someone to tuck them in at night.

(The Legacy Letters: his Wife, his Children, his Final Gift)

Carew Papritz

Children have more need of models than of critics.

(Things Your Dad Always Told You But You Didn’t Want to Hear)

Carolyn Coats

Many parents preach to their children but do not set good examples. Parents want the children to do as they say, not as they do.

Billy Graham

The world gives us PLENTY of opportunities to strengthen our patience. While this truth can definitely be challenging, this is a good thing. Patience is a key that unlocks the door to a more fulfilling life. It is through a cultivation of patience that we become better parents, powerful teachers, great businessmen, good friends, and a live a happier life.

(Life, the Truth, and Being Free)

Steve Maraboli

Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

A wise woman once said to me that there are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these she said is roots, the other, wings.

William Hodding Carter

The best way to teach a child is live an exemplary life.

(Think Great: Be Great!)

Lailah Gifty Akita

The best words of wisdom that a parent can say to their child is "I Am proud of you".”

Unarine Ramaru

The hardest part of raising a child is teaching them to ride bicycles. A shaky child on a bicycle for the first time needs both support and freedom. The realization that this is what the child will always need can hit hard.

Sloan Wilson

The most influential of all educational factor is the conversation in a child’s home.

William Temple

Unconditional love is loving your kids for who they are, not for what they do… it isn’t something you will achieve every minute of every day. But it is the thought we must hold in our hearts every day.

Stephanie Marston

Don’t worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.

Robert Fulghum

If you as parents cut corners, your children will too. If you lie, they will too. If you spend all your money on yourselves and tithe no portion of it for charities, colleges, churches, synagogues, and civic causes, your children won’t either. And if parents snicker at racial and gender jokes, another generation will pass on the poison adults still have not had the courage to snuff out.

Marian Wright Edelman

To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while.

Josh Billings

My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, ’You’re tearing up the grass’; ’We’re not raising grass,’ Dad would reply. ’We’re raising boys.’

Harmon Killebrew

Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.

Lady Bird Johnson

Live so that when your children think of fairness, caring, and integrity, they think of you.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

If we don’t plant the right things, we will reap the wrong things. It goes without saying. And you don’t have to be, you know, a brilliant biochemist and you don’t have to have an IQ of 150. Just common sense tells you to be kind, ninny, fool. Be kind.

Maya Angelou

Treat your kid like a darling for the first five years. For the next five years, scold them. By the time they turn sixteen, treat them like a friend. Your grown up children are your best friends.

Chanakya