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“Families are setting aside more money to buy school books every year, yet there is no budget for the Bible. Sad, isn’t it! Our children need to be exposed to the word of God when they are young so that they may grow with the knowledge of the same.”

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Author:Benjamin Nzuki

“God wanted parents to train their children in the way of the Lord. Deuteronomy 6:1, 2 says: “These are the commands, decrees and laws the LORD your God directed me to teach you to observe in the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess. So that you, your children and their children after them may fear the LORD your God as long as you live by keeping all his decrees and commands that I give you, and so that you may enjoy long life.” It was expected that every Jewish parent will have a relationship with God and be qualified to instruct his children on how to relate with the Lord.”

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Author:Benjamin Nzuki

“It goes without saying that people who interact with your children will influence them. If they are godless, they will influence your children in that direction. Parents and caregivers who are serious with the faith will therefore shield their children from the irreligious community by always reminding them of the purpose God has on them.”

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Author:Benjamin Nzuki

“Just like providing healthy food, clean water, comfortable home, good education and health care to children is a must and a right, teaching them how to read books passionately is a skill that they need to live in life living by values, and think logically, and know what's right from wrong, and have a compassionate heart.”

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Author:Noora Ahmed Alsuwaidi

“In a world of flowers grown in pots, I'd like you girls to thrive in the wild.”

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Author:Jennifer Tindugan-Adoviso

“Children are taught to look down on their nurses (nannies), to treat them as mere servants. When their task is completed the child is withdrawn or the nurse is dismissed. Her visits to her foster-child are discouraged by a cold reception. After a few years the child never sees her again. The mother expects to take her place, and to repair by her cruelty the results of her own neglect. But she is greatly mistaken; she is making an ungrateful foster-child, not an affectionate son; she is teaching him ingratitude, and she is preparing him to despise at a later day the mother who bore him, as he now despises his nurse.”

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Author:Rousseau, Jean-Jacques

“There’s a price to be paid when you raise your daughter to be nice, and she’s not the only one who’s going to pay it. You’ll be right there beside her, trapped by inconvenience, inflexibility and double standards.”

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Author:Gina Barreca

“If you live long enough & have changed enough diapers like I have raising 6 whole grown adult children one-at-a-time; you ought to be able to call out bullshit blindly, in about a million different ways & plays. My potty-training days have long been over...so what fool retards at their wisdom stage? For this chief reason, I could show you better than tell you, try as you might: you cannot change grown ups diapers in life, who think you don't know how 'full of shit' they are today.”

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Author:Tracey Bond

“It's wrong and unhealthy to deny a child the world of make-believe.”

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Author:Abhijit Naskar

“Why honey, don't you want to get dressed?" My mother took care never to tell me to do anything. She would only reason with me sweetly, like one intelligent, mature person with another.”

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Book:the bell jar

Source: the bell jar

“It takes less than a minute to make a baby, but more than a decade to make a being.”

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Book:Honor He Wrote: 100 Sonnets For Humans Not Vegetables

Source: Honor He Wrote: 100 Sonnets For Humans Not Vegetables

“Watch your children grow, and they will teach you what you’ve taught them.”

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Book:Leadership by Example: Be a role model who inspires greatness in others

Source: Leadership by Example: Be a role model who inspires greatness in others

“Raising PERFECT children is not hard... It's IMPOSSIBLE !!!!!”

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Author:kjforce

“Investing the time in climbing, descending, or traversing toward a new perspective is always worthwhile.”

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Book:Livology: A Global Guide to a Deliberate Life

Source: Livology: A Global Guide to a Deliberate Life

“Children who have faith have distinctly different characteristics from those who don't. In fact, one of the main manifestations of a person with strong faith is the ability to give—not just in terms of money or possessions, but also time, love, and encouragement.”

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Book:The Power of a Praying Parent

Source: The Power of a Praying Parent

“The best kind of parenting is that of exemplarity.”

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Book:Honor He Wrote: 100 Sonnets For Humans Not Vegetables

Source: Honor He Wrote: 100 Sonnets For Humans Not Vegetables

“To stimulate life, leaving it free, however, to unfold itself--that is the first duty of the educator.”

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Author:Maria Montessori

“You raise them half-decent, and they grow up and leave. They move to Miami or California-- someplace with gourmet groceries and nude beaches because you've reared them to cook good and be liberal minded. It's just the opposite with your failures-- them kids stick to your tail like a cocklebur. You'd think it would be the other way around, but it's not. No matter how old I get, this will always amaze me.”

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Book:American Pie

Source: American Pie

“Unfortunately, life is unfair and not all babies are brought into the world with the same amount of anticipation and affection, as others. No matter what anyone says; we are really not all given an equal start at life. And so what must children be made up of, to come into a world like this one? Children must be made up of silk. They must be brought up with a serenity in their skin but a bulletproof strength in their souls. This is the new breed of children. Ones that are soft to the touch but are truly unbreakable. And unbreakable in a beautiful way; not in a lost way.”

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Author:C. JoyBell C.

“The good news is that your child has a natural desire to do well. Your job as parent is to bring out this quality and cherish it until the day your kids leave home, and then some.”

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Author:Marlene Targ Brill

“Motherhood is both a beautiful dance and a brutally gut-wrenching exercise in self- control. As much as we want to jump in and solve every one of our children’s problems, we must now sit on the sidelines, letting them learn to live without us. And as they begin to learn, we learn something too. We learn to pray without ceasing. And we learn God has an Act II just for us. 13 Raising children to be capable adults is one of the most amazing, agonizing, beautiful, and painful things we will ever do. We celebrate our children’s independence while mourning their departure. In fact, if we grieve their going, we most likely did it right. I had no idea of the surprises God had in store for me, and He has them for you, too.”

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Book:The After Party of the Empty Nest: Mom is Not Your Only Name

Source: The After Party of the Empty Nest: Mom is Not Your Only Name

“Like it or not, we either add to the darkness of indifference and out-and-out evil which surround us or we light a candle to see by. We can surely no longer pretend that our children are growing up into a peaceful, secure, and civilized world. We've come to the point where it's irresponsible to try to protect them from the irrational world they will have to live in when they grow up.... Our responsibility to them is not to pretend that if we don't look, evil will go away, but to give them weapons against it.”

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Book:A Circle of Quiet

Source: A Circle of Quiet

“You want to know the secret to raising good kids?” “What’s that? asked Thomas. “High expectations.” Thomas laughed. “Alright, well what’s the secret to a happy marriage?” Clyde smiled back, but his face started to fall, and he chose his words carefully. “… Low expectations.”

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Book:The Life and Death of the Ericsons

Source: The Life and Death of the Ericsons

“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.”

“I completely admire my mother for raising a child with cerebral palsy at home.”

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Author:Natalia Vodianova

“Art, not unlike raising children... may entail much sacrifice and periods of despair, but, with luck, the effort will produce something that outlives you.”

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Author:Michael Kimmelman

“In the end, it's not what you do for your children but what you've taught them to do for themselves.”

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Author:Ann Landers

“I would be ashamed to admit to the Indians that, where I come from, the women do not feel themselves capable of raising children until they read the instructions written in a book by a strange man.”

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Book:The Continuum Concept: Allowing Human Nature to Work Successfully

Source: The Continuum Concept: Allowing Human Nature to Work Successfully

“Do not raise your children the way your parents raised you; they were born for a different time.”

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Author:Ali ibn Abi Talib

“Raising children is the hardest job that there is on the face of the Earth.”

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Author:Ann Romney

“Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They came through you but not from you and though they are with you yet they belong not to you.”

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Author:Khalil Gibran

“You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.”

“Raising children was not designed for single parents. (Which is why divorce was such a taboo prior to birth control).”

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Author:Warren Farrell

“If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others.”

“Depending on whom you ask, time is money, time is love, time is work, time is play, time is enjoying friends, time is raising children, and time is much more. Time is what you make of it.”

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Book:The Time Paradox: The New Psychology of Time That Will Change Your Life

Source: The Time Paradox: The New Psychology of Time That Will Change Your Life

“It is our genetic nature as a species to believe as young children that our parents and elders are right. We watch them to see what's what. Later on we can judge for ourselves and rebel if need be, but when we're just months old, or a year or two, and a parent looks at us with impatience, or disgust, or disdain, or just leaves us there to cry and doesn't answer us even though we're longing to be embraced and nurtured, we assume that something must be wrong with us. Unfortunately, at that age it's impossible to think there might be something wrong with them.”

“Only bad things happen quickly, . . . Virtually all the happiness-produ cing processes in our lives take time, usually a long time: learning new things, changing old behaviors, building satisfying relationships, raising children. This is why patience and determination are among life's primary virtues.”

“Raising children uses every bit of your being - your heart, your time, your patience, your foresight, your intuition to protect them, and you have to use all of this while trying to figure out how to discipline them.”

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Author:Nicole Ari Parker

“Raising a child is the only relationship you have where if you do it right, it will end in separation.”

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Author:Naomi Foner Gyllenhaal

“God put us here to prepare this place for the next generation. That's our job. Raising children and helping the community, that's preparing for the next generation.”

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Author:Dikembe Mutombo

“The typical minimum wage earner is a provider and a breadwinner - most likely a woman - responsible for paying bills, running a household and raising children.”

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Author:Thomas Perez

“Raising a child is an on-the-job kind of thing. There arent a whole lot of manuals for that.”

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Author:Larry Elder

“Hillary Clinton famously talked about how raising a child takes a village. Except our society isn't set up that way. We're organized in nuclear units, and a single mom can ask her friends only so many times for help picking up the kids.”

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Author:Katharine Weymouth

“I love the idea that 'a person is a person no matter how small'.”

“Our eldest boy, Bob, has been away from us nearly a year at school, and will enter Harvard University this month. He promises verywell, considering we never controlled him much.”

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Book:Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 2: 1859-1865: Library of America #46

Source: Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 2: 1859-1865: Library of America #46

“Raising children is a spur-of-the-moment, seat-of-the-pants sort of deal, as any parent knows, particularly after an adult child says that his most searing memory consists of an offhand comment in the car on the way to second grade that the parent cannot even dimly recall.”

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Author:Anna Quindlen

“In considering the ledger equal, understand the greatest gift you have given your parents is the opportunity to raise you. The things a child gets from parents can't compare to the things a parent gets from raising a child. Only by experiencing this can you understand the degree to which children give meaning to parents' lives.”

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Author:Frank Pittman

“When men achieve the fruits of their material success, they often become aware of an emptiness--an incompleteness--in their lives;the hollowness of having, but not raising, children, of not making true commitments to them. Which, sadly, does not mean that they weren't capable of it.”

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Author:Willard Gaylin

“The only effective way to help well-intentioned, intelligent persons to do the best they can in raising children is to encourage and guide them always to do their own thinking in their attempts at understanding and dealing with child-rearing situations and problems, and not to rely blindly on the opinions of others.”

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Author:Bruno Bettelheim

“The child's personality is a product of slow gradual growth. His nervous system matures by stages and natural sequences. He sits before he stands; he babbles before he talks; he fabricates before he tells the truth; he draws a circle before he draws a square; he is selfish before he is altruistic; he is dependent on others before he achieves dependence on self. All of his abilities, including his morals, are subject to laws of growth. The task of child care is not to force him into a predetermined pattern but to guide his growth.”

Source: Infant and Child in the Culture of Today: The Guidance of Development in Home and Nursery School (From the Former Clinic of Child Development, School of Medicine at Yale University)