Children are natural mimics who act like their parents despite every effort to teach them good manners. – Author Unknown

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

The trouble with learning to parent on the job is that your child is the teacher. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father. – Gloria Steinem, New York Times, 26 August 1971