Famous parenting quotations

   Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.  Nice Word by Fran Lebowitz, Social Studies

   I love to play hide and seek with my kid, but some days my goal is to find a hiding place where he can't find me until after high school.  Meaningful Quotation by Author Unknown

Inspirational Sayings, Motivational Quotes, Great Words, Witty Proverbs
   Character is largely caught, and the father and the home should be the great sources of character infection.  Good Quote by Frank H. Cheley

   Simply having children does not make mothers.  Wise Phrase by John A. Shedd

   There may be some doubt as to who are the best people to have charge of children, but there can be no doubt that parents are the worst.  Wise Phrase by George Bernard Shaw

   There is only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it.  Famous Saying by Chinese Proverb

   Likely as not, the child you can do the least with will do the most to make you proud.  Nice Word by Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966

   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.  Meaningful Quotation by C.G. Jung, Integration of the Personality, 1939

   As a child my family's menu consisted of two choices: take it, or leave it.  Good Quote by Buddy Hackett

   Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.  Wise Phrase by Oscar Wilde

   If your kids are giving you a headache, follow the directions on the aspirin bottle, especially the part that says keep away from children.  Wise Phrase by Susan Savannah

   Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.  Famous Saying by Charles R. Swindoll, The Strong Family

   Your responsibility as a parent is not as great as you might imagine. You need not supply the world with the next conqueror of disease or major motion-picture star. If your child simply grows up to be someone who does not use the word collectible as a noun, you can consider yourself an unqualified success.  Nice Word by Fran Lebowitz, Parental Guidance, Social Studies, 1981

   The ideal home: big enough for you to hear the children, but not very well.  Meaningful Quotation by Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966

   Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy.  Good Quote by Robert A. Heinlein

   In spite of the seven thousand books of expert advice, the right way to discipline a child is still a mystery to most fathers and... mothers. Only your grandmother and Ghengis Khan know how to do it.  Wise Phrase by Billy Cosby

   Kids spell love T-I-M-E.  Wise Phrase by John Crudele

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

   A lot of parents pack up their troubles and send them off to summer camp.  Nice Word by Raymond Duncan

   It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.  Meaningful Quotation by Colette, My Mother's House, 1922

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

   How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted.  Wise Phrase by Walter Scott

   My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.  Wise Phrase by Quentin Crisp, The Naked Civil Servant, 1968

   The secret of dealing successfully with a child is not to be its parent.  Famous Saying by Mell Lazarus

   If nature had arranged that husbands and wives should have children alternatively, there would never be more than three in a family.  Nice Word by Lawrence Housman



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