If you're like most members of the Baby Boom generation, you decided somewhere along the line, probably after about four margaritas, to have children. This was inevitable. Mother Nature, in her infinite wisdom, has instilled within each of us a powerful biological instinct to reproduce; this is her way of assuring that the human race, come what may, will never have any disposable income.
Dave BarryTags: humor children parenting
The most important thing that parents can teach their children is how to get along without them.
Frank ClarkTags: parenting
You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.
Franklin P. AdamsTags: parenting
Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
James BaldwinTags: parenting role-models
Where did we ever get the crazy idea that in order to make children do better, first we have to make them feel worse? Think of the last time you felt humiliated or treated unfairly. Did you feel like cooperating or doing better?
Jane NelsenTags: punishment motivation parenting corporeal-punishment discipline
Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.
Anne FrankTags: inspirational innocence growing-up self-determination self-responsibility parenting personal-responsibility right-of-passage
Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.
Benjamin FranklinTags: learning parenting teacher mentoring
Although it is very easy to marry a wife, it is very difficult to support her along with the children and the household. Accordingly, no one notices this faith of Jacob. Indeed, many hate fertility in a wife for the sole reason that the offspring must be supported and brought up. For this is what they commonly say: ‘Why should I marry a wife when I am a pauper and a beggar? I would rather bear the burden of poverty alone and not load myself with misery and want.’ But this blame is unjustly fastened on marriage and fruitfulness. Indeed, you are indicting your unbelief by distrusting God’s goodness, and you are bringing greater misery upon yourself by disparaging God’s blessing. For if you had trust in God’s grace and promises, you would undoubtedly be supported. But because you do not hope in the Lord, you will never prosper.
Martin LutherTags: money purpose wealth christianity god faith marriage poverty parenting parenthood protestantism
To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while.
Josh BillingsTags: children parenting example
Each suburban wife struggles with it alone. As she made the beds, shopped for groceries, matched slipcover material, ate peanut butter sandwiches with her children, chauffeured Cub Scouts and Brownies, lay beside her husband at night- she was afraid to ask even of herself the silent question-- 'Is this all?
Betty FriedanTags: inspirational purpose marriage feminism housekeeping existentialism parenting
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