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“Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.”

“If I had my child to raise all over again,I'd finger paint more, and point the finger less.I'd do less correcting, and more connecting.I'd take my eyes off my watch, and watch with my eyes.I would care to know less, and know to care more.I'd take more hikes and fly more kites.I'd stop playing serious, and seriously play.I'd run through more fields, and gaze at more stars.I'd do more hugging, and less tugging.I would be firm less often, and affirm much more.I'd build self esteem first, and the house later.I'd teach less about the love of power, and more about the power of love.”

“Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.”

“There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.”

“It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't.”

“It's not only children who grow. Parents do too. As much as we watch to see what our children do with their lives, they are watching us to see what we do with ours. I can't tell my children to reach for the sun. All I can do is reach for it, myself.”

“Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them.”

“If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.”

“Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.”

“Always kiss your children goodnight, even if they're already asleep.”

“In spite of the six thousand manuals on child raising in the bookstores, child raising is still a dark continent and no one really knows anything. You just need a lot of love and luck - and, of course, courage.”

“Having children is like living in a frat house - nobody sleeps, everything's broken, and there's a lot of throwing up.”

“You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.”

“Life affords no greater responsibility, no greater privilege, than the raising of the next generation”

“Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother”

“Affirming words from moms and dads are like light switches. Speak a word of affirmation at the right moment in a child's life and it's like lighting up a whole roomful of possibilities.”

“If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.”

“The most important thing that parents can teach their children is how to get along without them.”

“It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.”