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Children will not remember you for the material things you provided but for the feeling that you cherished them.
The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant, and let the air out of the tires.
My second favorite household chore is ironing. My first being hitting my head on the top bunk bed until I faint.
Humans are the only animals that have children on purpose with the exception of guppies, who like to eat theirs.
You know the only people who are always sure about the proper way to raise children? Those who've never had any.
Single parenting is sometimes just a case of sitting around by yourself in mild despair, not knowing what to do.
Your children are not your children, they come through you, but they are life itself, wanting to express itself.
And have your mother put my head on a stake? Do you have any notion what that would do to my handsome good looks?
But she needs me more than she needs him and I guess being needed is almost as good as being loved. Maybe better.
Why are you measuring? This is how you block, delay, hinder, obstruct and deny his place in the life as a father.
The parent who could see his boy as he really is, would shake his head and say: 'Willie is no good; I'll sell him.
My approach to parenting is the same as my approach to life: it's all about putting in the hours and working hard.
The interesting thing about being a mother is that everyone wants pets, but no one but me cleans the kitty litter.
The greatest treasure you can leave your children is a sense of modesty and the advice to follow virtuous persons.
Alas, regardless of their doom, the little victims play! No sense have they of ills to come nor care beyond today.
Parenting is love, sure, but it's as much about receiving love as it is giving it. Parenthood is a kind of vanity.
Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.
The real menace in dealing with a five-year-old is that in no time at all you begin to sound like a five-year-old.
We may not be able to prepare the future for our children, but we can at least prepare our children for the future.
I adore my family. I don't love their politics. I think they're wonderful parents. They were dreadful at parenting.
Sadness, irritability, fatigue, and distractedness are among the most common side effects of grief while parenting.
Many a man wishes he were strong enough to tear a telephone book in half - especially if he has a teenage daughter.
The saddest things we fail at are fun things we never get to do, so in your busy day be sure to plan fun things too.
Never fear spoiling children by making them too happy. Happiness is the atmosphere in which all good affections grow
Your kids require you most of all to love them for who they are, not to spend your whole time trying to correct them.
In parenthood, there's so much fear around parenting in this day and age, and there's so much fear around technology.
Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process.
To be a successful father... there's one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don't look at it for the first two years.
Having children is like living in a frat house - nobody sleeps, everything's broken, and there's a lot of throwing up.
It is the function of parents to see that their children habitually experience the true consequences of their conduct.
Being a chef isn't the ideal career to intersect with parenting, but I try to be in my kids' lives as much as possible.
The fact that someone says something doesn't mean it's true. Doesn't mean they're lying, but it doesn't mean it's true.
I can only speak for my husband and myself, but we don't feel like we could do any of this parenting without our faith.
If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed.
As a housewife, I feel that if the kids are still alive when my husband gets home from work, then hey, I've done my job.
Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.
I became a firefighter because I wanted to save people. But I should have been more specific. I should have named names.
We realized that the version of the world they rendered for us was not the version of the world they really believed in.
To be honest, I know that a lot of Asian parents are secretly shocked and horrified by many aspects of Western parenting.
You may strive to be like them but seek not to make them like you. For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.
Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three children and no theories.
I don't remember who said this, but there really are places in the heart you don't even know exist until you love a child.
Misbehavior and punishment are not opposites that cancel each other - on the contrary they breed and reinforce each other.
When a child is locked in the bathroom with water running and he says he's doing nothing but the dog is barking, call 911.
All of us have moments in our lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.
Anybody out there who is a parent, if your kids want to paint their bedrooms,as a favor to me, let them do it. It'll be OK.
Nothing is more characteristically juvenile than contempt for juvenility. . . youth's characteristic chronological snobbery.
Raising children is like making biscuits: it is as easy to raise a big batch as one, while you have your hands in the dough.
To me parenting is all about trust. If you don't live by your words or actions how do you expect your kids to listen to you?
Loving and parenting a dog as a single parent can create all sorts of new and unusual problems, but also new sources of joy.