“No matter how old a mother is, she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement.”
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“It is one thing to show your child the way, and a harder thing to then stand out of it”
“A child seldom needs a good talking to as a good listening to.”
“She never quite leaves her children at home, even when she doesn't take them along.”
“Parents learn a lot from their children about coping with life.”
“Kids go where there is excitement. They stay where there is love.”
“No man has ever lived that had enough of children's gratitude or woman's love.”
Source: Selected Poems And Four Plays
Source: Family politics: love and power on an intimate frontier
“The advantage of growing up with siblings is that you become very good at fractions.”
Source: Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin
“Although there are many trial marriages... there is no such thing as a trial child.”
“A child, like your stomach, doesn't need all you can afford to give it.”
“It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.”
Source: Divine Conduct: Or, The Mystery of Providence, Wherein the Being and Efficacy of Providence are Asserted and Vindicated ... and the Proper Course of Improving All Providences Pointed Out
“What God is to the world, that parents are to their children.”
Source: Poor Richard's Almanack and Other Writings
Source: Common Sense: Addressed to the Inhabitants of America
“My goal is to get peace and my goal is to see education of every child.”
Source: Principle Centered Leadership
Source: An age of enormity: life and writing in the forties and fifties