Parenting: Parenting Quotes

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"Always end the name of your child with a vowel, so that when you yell, the name will carry"

Bill Cosby, Comedian

Bill Cosby

"The fate of a child is in the hands of his parents"

Shinichi Suzuki, Musician

Shinichi Suzuki

"Permissiveness is the principle of treating children as if they were adults; and the tactic of making sure they never reach that stage"

Thomas Szasz, Psychologist

Thomas Szasz

"There are many little ways to enlarge your child's world. Love of books is the best of all"

Jackie Kennedy, First Lady

"Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing up is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing"

Phyllis Diller, Comedian

Phyllis Diller

"A two-year-old is kind of like having a blender, but you don't have a top for it"

Jerry Seinfeld, Comedian

Jerry Seinfeld

"A sparkling house is a fine thing if the children aren't robbed of their luster in keeping it that way"

Marcelene Cox, Writer

Marcelene Cox

"Likely as not, the child you can do the least with will do the most to make you proud"

Mignon McLaughlin, Journalist

Mignon McLaughlin

"Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child"

Mary MacCracken, Writer

Mary MacCracken

"An adolescent is somebody who is in between things. A teenager is somebody who's kind of permanently there. And so living with them through the various teenage hopes and sorrows and joys was curiously enough a maturing experience for me"

Andrew Greeley, Clergyman

"Experts tell us that 90% of all brain development occurs by the age of five. If we don't begin thinking about education in the early years, our children are at risk of falling behind by the time they start Kindergarten"

Robert. L. Ehrlich, Politician

"At the end of the day, the most overwhelming key to a child's success is the positive involvement of parents"

Jane D. Hull, Politician

Jane D. Hull

"It is very difficult for people to believe the simple fact that every persecutor was once a victim. Yet it should be very obvious that someone who was allowed to feel free and strong from childhood does not have the need to humiliate another person"

Alice Miller, Psychologist

"Never raise your hand to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected"

Red Buttons, Comedian

"To observe people in conflict is a necessary part of a child's education. It helps him to understand and accept his own occasional hostilities and to realize that differing opinions need not imply an absence of love"

Milton R. Sapirstein, Physicist

"Raising kids is part joy, and part guerilla warfare"

Ed Asner, Actor

"Instead of yelling and spanking, which don't work anyway, I believe in finding creative ways to keep their attention - turning things into a game, for instance. And, when they do something good, positive reinforcement and praise"

Patricia Richardson, Actress

"We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body"

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery"

Plato, Philosopher

Plato

"Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven"

Henry Ward Beecher, Clergyman

"Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them"

James A. Baldwin, Author

James A. Baldwin

"Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards"

George Orwell, Author

George Orwell

"It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men"

Frederick Douglass, Author

Frederick Douglass

"Because of their size, parents may be difficult to discipline properly"

P. J. O'Rourke, Journalist

P. J. O'Rourke

"Children learn to smile from their parents"

Shinichi Suzuki, Musician

Shinichi Suzuki

"I am fiercely independent and I probably wouldn't be if it wasn't for the way in which I was brought up"

Tracey Emin, Artist

Tracey Emin

"When a child can be brought to tears, and not from fear of punishment, but from repentance, he needs no chastisement. When the tears begin to flow from the grief of their conduct, you can be sure there is an angel nestling in their heart"

Horace Mann, Educator

Horace Mann

"The first half of our lives are ruined by our parents and the second half by our children"

Clarence Darrow, Lawyer

Clarence Darrow

"A child's spirit is like a child; you can never catch it by running after it; you must stand still, and, for love, it will soon itself come back"

Arthur Miller, Playwright

Arthur Miller

"Parents are often so busy with the physical rearing of children that they miss the glory of parenthood, just as the grandeur of the trees is lost when raking leaves"

Marcelene Cox, Writer

Marcelene Cox

"No one knows his true character until he has run out of gas, purchased something on the installment plan, and raised an adolescent"

Marcelene Cox, Writer

Marcelene Cox

"Children rarely want to know who their parents were before they were parents, and when age finally stirs their curiosity, there is no parent left to tell them"

Russell Baker, Journalist

Russell Baker

"As a mom, I know it is my responsibility, and no one else's, to raise my kids. But we have to ask ourselves, what does it mean when so many parents are finding their best efforts undermined by an avalanche of advertisements aimed at our kids?"

Michelle Obama, First Lady

Michelle Obama

"Hugs can do great amounts of good - especially for children"

Princess Diana, Royalty

Princess Diana

"We are apt to forget that children watch examples better than they listen to preaching"

Roy L. Smith, Clergyman

Roy L. Smith

"So much is asked of parents, and so little is given"

Virginia Satir, Psychologist

Virginia Satir

"Children also have artistic ability, and there is wisdom in there having it! The more helpless they are, the more instructive are the examples they furnish us; and they must be preserved free of corruption from an early age"

Paul Klee, Artist

Paul Klee

"Let us put our minds together and see what life we can make for our children"

Sitting Bull, Statesman

Sitting Bull

"Recommend to your children virtue; that alone can make them happy, not gold"

Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer

Ludwig van Beethoven

"Children don't need much advice, but they really do need to be listened to, and not just with half an ear"

Emma Thompson, Actress

Emma Thompson

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