When you have brought up kids, there are memories you store directly in your tear ducts. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
Yes, having a child is surely the most beautifully irrational act that two people in love can commit. – Bill Cosby, Fatherhood
Parenthood: That state of being better chaperoned than you were before marriage. – Marcelene Cox
To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while. – Josh Billings
Your children need your presence more than your presents. – Jesse Jackson
The trouble with learning to parent on the job is that your child is the teacher. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
It behooves a father to be blameless if he expects his child to be. – Homer
If you have never been hated by your child you have never been a parent. – Bette Davis
Diogenes struck the father when the son swore. – Robert Burton, “Anatomy of Melancholy,” Democritus to the Reader, 1621
Children are a great comfort in your old age — and they help you reach it faster, too. – Lionel Kauffman
If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders. – Abigail Van Buren
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. – C.G. Jung, Integration of the Personality, 1939
Simply having children does not make mothers. – John A. Shedd
Although there are many trial marriages… there is no such thing as a trial child. – Gail Sheehy
The beauty of “spacing” children many years apart lies in the fact that parents have time to learn the mistakes that were made with the older ones — which permits them to make exactly the opposite mistakes with the younger ones. – Sydney J. Harris
A wise woman once said to me that there are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these she said is roots, the other, wings. – William Hodding Carter (1907–1972)
Do not ask that your kids live up to your expectations. Let your kids be who they are, and your expectations will be in breathless pursuit. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children. – Edward, Duke of Windsor, Look, 5 March 1957
The problem with children is that you have to put up with their parents. – Charles DeLint
Sing out loud in the car even, or especially, if it embarrasses your children. – Marilyn Penland
