Best Raising Children Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 7

“Marriage orients men and women toward the future, asking them not just to commit to each other but to plan, to earn, to save, and to devote themselves to advancing their children's prospects.”

“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.”

“Playing golf is like raising children. You keep thinking you'll do better next time.”

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Author:Charles E. McKenzie

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

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Author:Thomas A. Edison

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

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Author:Bil Keane

“Mom spent the time that she was supposed to be a kid actully raising children, her younger brother and younger sister. She was tough as nails and did not suffer fools at all. And the truth was she could not afford to. She spoke the truth, bluntly, directly, and without much varnish. I am her son.”

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Author:Chris Christie

“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.”

“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.”

“I believe the only people that should be around a child and raising a child are people who absolutely, 100 percent love that child”

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Author:Angelina Jolie

“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.”

“Years ago someone wrote [about me]: 'She characterizes Molly Weasley as a mother who is only at home looking after the children.' I was deeply offended, because I until a year before that had also been such a mother who was at home all the time taking care of her child [...] What has lesser status and is more difficult than raising a child? And what is more important?”

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Author:J. K. Rowling

“Having and raising children is doing something with your life! ... And I have to say that having your kids is one of the greatest things you can do.”

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Author:Patricia Heaton

“I have come to understand that the Lord's richest blessings are spiritual, and they often have to do with family, friends, and the gospel. He often seems to give the blessing of a special sensitivity to the influence and guidance of the Holy Spirit, especially in marriage and family matters like raising children. Such spiritual sensitivity can help us enjoy the blessings of harmony and peace in the home.”

“Raising children, be aware that the piles and piles of laundry will disappear all too soon and that you will, to your surprise, miss them profoundly.”

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Author:Thomas S. Monson

“The first and continuing argument for the curtailment of working hours and the raising of the minimum age was that education was necessary in a democracy and working children could not attend school.”

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Book:The Child and the State: Legal status in the family. Apprenticeship and child labor

Source: The Child and the State: Legal status in the family. Apprenticeship and child labor

“Kids don't have a little brother working in the coal mine, they don't have a little sister coughing her lungs out in the looms of the big mill towns of the Northeast. Why? Because we organized; we broke the back of the sweatshops in this country; we have child labor laws. Those were not benevolent gifts from enlightened management. They were fought for, they were bled for, they were died for by working people, by people like us. Kids ought to know that.”

“I always tell kids, you have two eyes and one mouth. Keep two open and one closed. You never learn anything if you're the one talking.”

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Author:Gordie Howe

“I actually feel that women in my position, when we have all at our disposal to help us, shouldn't complain when we consider all of the people who are really struggling, who don't have the financial means, who don't have the support, and so many people are single raising children - that's hard.”

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Author:Angelina Jolie

“Motherhood is not a hobby, it is a calling. You do not collect children because you find them cuter than stamps. It is not something to do if you can squeeze the time in. It is what God gave you time for.”

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Author:Neil L. Andersen

“Raising children is an incredibly hard and risky business in which no cumulative wisdom is gained: each generation repeats the mistakes the previous one made.”

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Book:Fatherhood

Source: Fatherhood

“We're not raising children with the love that we need to.”

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Author:Bill Cosby

“When a child makes a mistake or fails to accomplish a certain goal, we must avoid any word or action which indicates that we consider him a failure. 'Too bad that didn't work.' 'I'm sorry it didn't work out for you.' We need to separate the deed from the doer.”

“We cannot protect our children from life. Therefore, it is essential that we prepare them for it.”

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Author:Rudolf Dreikurs

“Teach the children so it will not be necessary to teach the adults.”

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Author:Abraham Lincoln

“Don't let yourself become so concerned with raising a good kid that you forget you already have one.”

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Author:Glennon Melton

“The selection process has been powerful enough to produce one indisputable outcome: the family is a universal human institution. . . . In virtually every society into which historians or anthropologists have inquired, one finds people living together on the basis of kinship ties and having responsibility for raising children. . . . Even in societies where men and women have relatively unrestricted sexual access to one another beginning at an early age, marriage is still the basis for family formation. It is desired by the partners and expected by society.”

“The worth of a child born and bred in Nigeria cannot be compared to that in the United States.”

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Author:Yakubu Gowon

“In order to develop normally, a child requires progressively more complex joint activity with one or more adults who have an irrational emotional relationship with the child. Somebody's got to be crazy about that kid. That's number one. First, last and always.”

“Families don't have to match. You don't have to look like someone else to love them.”

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Author:Leigh Anne Tuohy

“Children who are respected learn respect. Children who are cared for learn to care for those weaker than themselves. Children who are loved for what they are cannot learn intolerance. In an environment such as this, they will develop their own ideals, which can be nothing other than humane, since they grew out of the experience of love.”

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Book:Thou Shalt Not Be Aware: Society's Betrayal of the Child

Source: Thou Shalt Not Be Aware: Society's Betrayal of the Child

“Raising children who are hopeful and who have the courage to be vulnerable means stepping back and letting them experience disappointment, deal with conflict, learn how to assert themselves, and have the opportunity to fail. If we’re always following our children into the arena, hushing the critics, and assuring their victory, they’ll never learn that they have the ability to dare greatly on their own.”

Source: Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, andLead

“Praising children’s intelligence harms their motivation and it harms their performance.”

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Book:Mindset: The New Psychology of Success

Source: Mindset: The New Psychology of Success

“We are not taught to be thinkers, but reflectors of our culture. Let's teach our children to be thinkers.”

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Author:Jacque Fresco

“If you had a free society you couldn't get people to go to war, if you had an intelligent type of upbringing in ones children. They would say; There must be many other ways of solving problems other then killing people.”

“If you've never been hated by your child, you've never been a parent.”

“Raising children should mean helping them to become what they already are in God’s eyes.”

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Author:Eberhard Arnold

“Cleaning up with children around is like shoveling during a blizzard”

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Author:Margaret Culkin Banning

“Raising children is an enormously important part of life. I think one of the most important, or the most important, period.”

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Author:Eric Braeden

“What we are teaches the child far more than what we say, so we must be what we want our children to become.”

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Author:Joseph Chilton Pearce

“Raising children is an uncertain thing; success is reached only after a life of battle and worry.”

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Author:Democritus

“The true character of a society is revealed in how it treats its children.”

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Author:Nelson Mandela

“Together as a nation, we have the obligation to put sunshine into the hearts of our little ones. They are our precious possessions. They deserve what happiness life can offer.”

Source: Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations

“No one's raising children any more. To love a child, you've got to work for it. You have to change its diapers and feed it at night!”

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Author:Lauren Hutton

“Remember, the goal is not to raise great kids; it's to raise kids who become great adults.”

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Author:Andy Andrews

“Parents don't make mistakes because they don't care, but because they care so deeply.”

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Book:TOUCHPOINTS THE ESSENTIAL REFERENCE

Source: TOUCHPOINTS THE ESSENTIAL REFERENCE

“Modern education is premised strongly on materialistic values. It is vital that when educating our children's brains that we do not neglect to educate their hearts, a key element of which has to be the nurturing of our compassionate nature.”

“When it comes to raising children, I believe in give and take. I give orders and they take 'em.”

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Author:Bernie Mac

“The end product of child raising is not the child but the parent.”

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Author:Frank Pittman

“Infants and young children are not just sitting twiddling their thumbs, waiting for their parents to teach them to read and do math. They are expending a vast amount of time and effort in exploring and understanding their immediate world. Healthy education supports and encourages this spontaneous learning.”

Source: Miseducation: preschoolers at risk

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