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“People often ask me, "What's the difference between couplehood and babyhood?" In a word? Moisture. Everything in my life is now more moist. Between your spittle, your diapers, your spit-up and drool, you got your baby food, your wipes, your formula, your leaky bottles, sweaty baby backs, and numerous other untraceable sources-all creating an ever-present moistness in my life, which heretofore was mainly dry.”

People Children Life Is Asks Differences Source Baby Creating Humorous Parenting Ask Me Dry Bottles Formulas Wipe Spit Diapers Moisture Babyhood Spit Up

Author:Paul Reiser

“The fact that boys are allowed to exist at all is evidence of a remarkable Christian forebearance among men.”

Men Children Facts Christian Boys Humorous Evidence Parenting Remarkable Humanitarianism Forbearance

Author:Ambrose Bierce

“Anyhow, all mankind's ideas and interests, all human aims and motives, are exhibited, fully formed, in a three-year-old child. The kid is just operating on a smaller scale and lacks the advantage of having made enormous soft-money campaign contributions to political candidates.”

Source: Thrown Under the Omnibus: A Reader

“Nothing is more characteristically juvenile than contempt for juvenility. . . youth's characteristic chronological snobbery.”

Children Youth Humorous Parenting Characteristics Contempt Juvenile Snobbery

Book:An Experiment in Criticism

Source: An Experiment in Criticism

“Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you, and though they are with you, yet they belong not to you. You may give them your love, but not your thoughts. For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams. You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you. For life goes not backward, nor tarries with yesterday.”

“When inquiry is suppressed by previous knowledge, or by the authority and experience of another, then learning becomes mere imitation, and imitation causes a human being to repeat what is learned without experiencing it.”

Humans Causes Human Beings Education Authority Mere Parenting Educational Repeats Imitation Inquiry

Book:Life Ahead: On Learning and the Search for Meaning

Source: Life Ahead: On Learning and the Search for Meaning

“If someone feels that he has never made a mistake in his life, it only means that he has never tried anything new in his life.”

Ifs Feels Mean Made Mistake Education Parenting Educational Made A Mistake

Author:Albert Einstein

“We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until we have stopped saying 'It got lost,' and say, 'I lost it.'”

Lost Lines Education Responsibility Childhood Ethics Parenting Educational Maturity Subtle Adulthood Unhappy Childhood Responsibility For Children

Author:Sydney J. Harris

“Our vision is more obstructed by what we think we know than by our lack of knowledge.”

Thinking Knows Education Vision Parenting Educational Lack Of Knowledge

Author:Krister Stendahl

“The fact that someone says something doesn't mean it's true. Doesn't mean they're lying, but it doesn't mean it's true.”

Mean Facts Lying Education Parenting Educational

Author:Carl Sagan

“IF PARENTS PASS ENTHUSIASM ALONG TO THEIR CHILDREN, THEY WILL LEAVE THEM AN ESTATE OF INCALCULABLE VALUE”

Ifs Children Motivational Values Parent Education Family Gratitude Parenting Educational Enthusiasm Parenthood Estates Being Thankful Inventor Raising Children Upbringing

Author:Thomas A. Edison

“Parents have the glorious opportunity of being the most powerful influence, above and beyond any other, on the new lives that bless their homes.”

Home Opportunity Parent Powerful Influence Parenting Motherhood Glorious Most Powerful Bless New Life Above And Beyond

Author:L. Tom Perry

“The problem with children is that you have to put up with their parents.”

Children Problem Funny Parent Parenting Parent Child

Book:Triskell Tales: Twenty-two Years of Chapbooks

Source: Triskell Tales: Twenty-two Years of Chapbooks

“If we are to prevent the fabric of our society from coming apart, we must teach our children to excel not only academically, but also in their appreciation of their obligation to others.”

Ifs Children Teach Our Children Parenting Appreciation Obligation Our Society Fabric

Author:Clarence Page

“The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, saying: There is life, but it's not for you.”

Children Work Class Worst Succeed Faults Parenting Good Life Working Class

Author:John Mortimer

“Children are human beings to whom respect is due, superior to us by reason of their innocence and of the greater possibilities of their future.”

Humans Children Reason Human Beings Greater Possibility Parenting Dues Superiors Innocence Montessori

Book:The Montessori Reader

Source: The Montessori Reader

“When we teach our children to be good, to be gentle, to be forgiving (all these are attributes of God), to be generous, to love their follow men, to regard this present age as nothing, we instill virtue in their souls, and reveal the image of God within them.”

Men Children Soul Age Teach Virtue Regard Our Children Forgiving Parenting Be Good Gentle Generous Attributes Follow Me God Image Instill Attributes Of God

Author:Saint John Chrysostom

“OF COURSE I'd like to be the ideal mother. But I'm too busy raising children.”

Children Mother Courses Ideals Parenting Busy Raising Children Too Busy Funny Mothers Day Funny Motherhood Funny Mother

Author:Bil Keane

“I used to believe my father about everything but then I had children myself & now I see how much stuff you make up just to keep yourself from going crazy.”

Believe Children Kids Used Father Stuff Parent Crazy Parenting Funny Inspirational Going Crazy

Author:Brian Andreas

“Your responsibility as a parent is not as great as you might imagine. You need not supply the world with the next conqueror of disease or major motion picture star. If your child simply grows up to be someone who does not use the word "collectible" as a noun, you can consider yourself an unqualified success.”

“Better a little chiding than a great deal of heartbreak.”

Littles Deals Criticism Parenting Reproof

Book:Comedies of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)

Source: Comedies of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)

“While I was drying off Maddie after her bath tonight, she said, 'I love you' to me for the first time. It sounded like 'All lub boo,' but I didn't care. To reciprocate, I showed her what an ex-Marine looks like when he cries.”

Firsts Looks Said Care Parent Love You Cry First Time Parenting Tonight Exes Marine Funny Inspirational Baths Reciprocate

Author:Jim Beaver

“We do not develop habits of genuine love automatically. We learn by watching effective role models - most specifically by observing how our parents express love for each other day in and day out.”

Parent Family Roles Habit Models Parenting Genuine Role Models Observing Inspirational Family Love Genuine Love

Author:Josh McDowell

“You may give them your love but not your thoughts, for they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.”

“Alas, regardless of their doom, the little victims play! No sense have they of ills to come nor care beyond today.”

Children Littles Play Care Today Victim Parenting Gray Alas Doom Parental If Ignorance Is Bliss

Author:Thomas Gray

“Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.”

Giving Children Desire Decision Family Listening Our Children Parenting Your Children Decision Making Autonomy Happy Children

Author:Denis Waitley

“You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.”

Inspirational Children Enough Age Poetry Suffering Poet Humorous Parenting Teenager Sarcasm Poetry Is Sarcastic Adolescence Teenage Girl Teenage Years Being Sarcastic

Author:John Ciardi

“Dad needs to show an incredible amount of respect and humor and friendship toward his mate so the kids understand their parents are sexy, they're fun, they do things together, they're best friends. Kids learn by example. If I respect Mom, they're going to respect Mom.”

“A good parent gives their child roots and wings.”

Giving Children Parent Roots Wings Parenting Good Parent Roots And Wings

Author:Jonas Salk

“I figure if the kids are alive at the end of the day, I've done my job.”

Ifs Ends Done Kids Jobs Alive Figures Parenting The End Of The Day

Author:Roseanne Barr

“The family should be a closely knit group. The home should be a self-contained shelter of security; a kind of school where life's basic lessons are taught; and a kind of church where God is honored; a place where wholesome recreation and simple pleasures are enjoyed.”

Should Kind Self Home School Church Simple Pleasure Groups Security Taught Lessons Parenting Enjoyed Shelter Honored Recreation Simple Pleasures Self Contained

Author:Billy Graham

“You want to mess up the minds of your children? Here's how - guaranteed! Rear them in a legalistic, tight context of external religion, where performance is more important than reality. Fake your faith. Sneak around and pretend your spirituality. Train your children to do the same. Embrace a long list of do's and don'ts publicly but hypocritically practice them privately... yet never own up to the fact that its hypocrisy. Act one way but live another. And you can count on it - emotional and spiritual damage will occur.”

Source: The Grace Awakening: Believing in Grace Is One Thing. Living it Is Another.

“Let no Christian parents fall into the delusion that Sunday School is intended to ease them of their personal duties. The first and most natural condition of things is for Christian parents to train up their own children in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.”

Firsts Children School Christian Fall Parent Natural Lord Conditions Duty Train Parenting Ease Delusion Sunday Nurture Sunday School Admonition

Book:Select Works

Source: Select Works

“The parents exist to teach the child, but also they must learn what the child has to teach them; and the child has a very great deal to teach them”

Children Parent Deals Teach Parenting Parents Love Funny Parenting Funny Parent

Author:Arnold Bennett

“My earliest childhood memory was watching my parents loosen the wheels on my stroller.”

Parent Memories Childhood Parenting Motherhood Wheels Childhood Memories Strollers

Book:I Hate Everyone...Starting with Me

Source: I Hate Everyone...Starting with Me

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

“My parents hated me. All I ever heard was, "Why can't you be like your cousin Shelia? Why can't you be like your cousin Shelia?" Shelia had died at birth.”

Parent Heard Like You Birth Died Parenting Motherhood Hated Cousin Your Cousin

Author:Joan Rivers

“Your proudest moment is to watch your egg not just function, but to achieve on her own.”

Moments Watches Achieve Function Parenting Motherhood Eggs Proudest Moments

Author:Joan Rivers

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

“A child, like your stomach, doesn't need all you can afford to give it.”

Needs Giving Children Parent Family Childhood Parenting Your Children Stomach Children And Parents Funny Parenting

Author:Frank A. Clark

“I don't think my parents liked me. They put a live teddy bear in my crib.”

Thinking Humor Funny Parent Bears Parenting Being A Mom Being A Parent Teddy Parents Love Funny Parenting Funny Parent Teddy Bear

Author:Woody Allen

“Parenting, as an unpaid occupation outside the world of public power, entails lower status, less power, and less control of resources than paid work.”

World Inspire Resources Paid Parenting Occupation

Book:The Reproduction of Mothering: Psychoanalysis and the Sociology of Gender

Source: The Reproduction of Mothering: Psychoanalysis and the Sociology of Gender

“What feeling is so nice as a child's hand in yours? So small, so soft and warm, like a kitten huddling in the shelter of your clasp.”

Children Feelings Hands Nice Inspire Parenting Warm Child Abuse Shelter Kitten Inspirational Parenting

Author:Wilson Mizner

“To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while. Your children need your presence more than your presents.”

“When correcting a child, the goal is to apply light, not heat.”

Children Light Goal Discipline Parenting Heat Correcting

Author:Woodrow Wilson

“As soon as we find ourselves working at being indispensable, rigging up a pattern of vulnerability in our loved ones, we know that our love has taken the socially sanctioned form of egotism.”

Knows Love Form Taken Parenting Patterns Vulnerability Loved Ones Indispensable Our Love Egotism

Book:the female eunuch

Source: the female eunuch

“Whether or not you have children yourself, you are a parent to the next generation. If we can only stop thinking of children as individual property and think of them as the next generation, then we can realize we all have a role to play.”

“It is my pleasure that my children are free and happy, and unrestrained by parental tyranny. Love is the chain whereby to bind a child to its parents.”

Children Father Parent Love Is Pleasure Parenting Tyranny Chains My Children Parental

Book:The Lincoln treasury

Source: The Lincoln treasury

“A father carries pictures where his money used to be.”

“The most precious things in speech are the pauses.”

Teaching Speech Parenting Pauses Presentation Public Speaking Presenting Precious Things Presentation Skills Speaking In Public

Author:Ralph Richardson

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