The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children. King Edward VIII

• parents
• children

The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy. Sam Levenson

• children
• parents

I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it. Harry Truman

• children
• advice

Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home. Bill Cosby

• children

A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

• children
• criticism
• words

For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly makes all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison. Theodore Roosevelt

• success
• children

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

• children
• praise

We're brought up, unfortunately, to think that nobody should make mistakes. Most children get de-geniused by the love and fear of their parents - that they might make a mistake. But all my advances were made by mistakes. Buckminster Fuller

• genius
• children
• parents
• mistakes

Parents who are both conscientious and realistic discover sooner or later that they cannot do the job to their own complete satisfaction, much less to their children's complete satisfaction. Thomas Sowell

• children
• parents

Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by children. Oliver Wendell Holmes

• honesty
• truth
• children

Boys will be boys, and so will a lot of middle-aged men. Kin Hubbard

• funny
• children

Our greatest responsibility is to be good ancestors. Jonas Salk

• responsibility
• children
• parents

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

• children
• responsibility

Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• children
• parents

If you haven’t time to help youngsters find the right way in life, somebody with more time will help them find the wrong way. Frank Clark

• children
• parents

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up. Pablo Picasso

• art
• imagination
• children

You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance. Franklin P. Jones

• patience
• children
• funny

When a child asks to join the party, let him. When he wants to help clean the garage, find a way to include him. Of course, not every project or adult gathering is appropriate for every child. My observation is that the more wholesome an adult’s lifestyle, the fewer gatherings are off-limits to children. Clancy Cross

• children

It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men. Frederick Douglass

• children

I am convinced all of humanity is born with more gifts than we know. Most are born geniuses and just get de-geniused rapidly. Buckminster Fuller

• genius
• children

Discipline for sin, not for dirt. Don't mind dirt or a mess if your boys are busy and happy. Sharon Bomgaars

• discipline
• children

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When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary. Thomas Paine

• virtue
• children

Every son is his father's apprentice, studying not his dad's profession but his way of living, thinking, and behaving. Meg Meeker

• children

This is the source.

Little boys fight, and men take each other's money. Lawton Grantham

• children
• greed

My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it. Clarence Kelland

• children
• parents

Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you. Robert Fulghum

• children

[I]n all my years of private practice I've never heard one of my young clients (the children) mention "quality time." All a child knows is that he wants your time and your attention, whether it's to watch him do somersaults and cartwheels or to take him for a Big Mac. In trying to find time for your children, don't worry too much about how much "quality" is in it. Give them all the time you can and the quality will take care of itself. Kevin Leman

• priorities
• children

If I had to make a general rule for living and working with children, it might be this: be wary of saying or doing anything to a child that you would not do to another adult, whose good opinion and affection you valued. John Holt

• children

A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong. Thomas Szasz

• mistakes
• children

I must take issue with the term 'a mere child,' for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely preferable to that of a mere adult. Fran Lebowitz

• children

Bear constantly in mind the truth that the aim of your discipline should be to produce a self-governing being; not to produce a being to be governed by others. Were your children fated to pass their lives as slaves, you could not too much accustom them to slavery during their childhood; but as they are by and by to be free men, with no one to control their daily conduct, you cannot too much accustom them to self-control while they are still under your eye. Aim, therefore, to diminish the amount of parental government as fast as you can substitute for it in your child’s mind that self-government arising from a foresight of results. Herbert Spencer

• discipline
• children
• parents

In case you're worried about what's going to become of the younger generation, it's going to grow up and start worrying about the younger generation. Roger Allen

• age
• children

If boys don't learn, men won't know. Douglas Wilson

• children

Our greatest natural resource is the minds of our children. Walt Disney

• children

Since it is so likely that [children] will meet cruel enemies, let them at least have heard of brave knights and heroic courage. Clive Staples Lewis

• courage
• children
• bravery

If your plan is for one year plant rice. If your plan is for ten years plant trees. If your plan is for one hundred years educate children. Confucius

• legacy
• children

The only way for an adult to raise a great kid is to be a great adult in front of them. Whatever that looks like for them given their circumstances. Children see this. They see you struggling and doing hard things and they can tell. They eat that stuff up. They want to watch you strive and overcome and be a hero. They want to see you being great. There is no other way but to do hard things in front of your kids. It's not about your expectations, it's about what you model for them. Ana Martin

• children
• parents

Emotions, positive and negative, come in two usefully differentiated variants. Satisfaction (technically, satiation) tells us that what we did was good, while hope (technically, incentive reward) indicates that something pleasurable is on the way. Pain hurts us, so we won't repeat actions that produced personal damage or social isolation (as loneliness is also, technically, a form of pain). Anxiety makes us stay away from hurtful people and bad places so we don't have to feel pain. All these emotions must be balanced against each other, and carefully judged in context, but they're all required to keep us alive and thriving. We therefore do our children a disservice by failing to use whatever is available to help them learn, including negative emotions, even though such use should occur in the most merciful possible manner. Jordan Peterson

• emotion
• children
• parents