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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.”

“Your children need your presence more than your presents.”

“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.”

“If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement, and mystery of the world we live in.”

“Through the blur, I wondered if I was alone or if other parents felt the same way I did - that everything involving our children was painful in some way. The emotions, whether they were joy, sorrow, love or pride, were so deep and sharp that in the end they left you raw, exposed and yes, in pain. The human heart was not designed to beat outside the human body and yet, each child represented just that - a parent's heart bared, beating forever outside its chest.”

“Live so that when your children think of fairness, caring, and integrity, they think of you.”

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

“I don't remember who said this, but there really are places in the heart you don't even know exist until you love a child.”

“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.”

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

“A baby is born with a need to be loved - and never outgrows it.”