“You should really try to live your childhood when you’re a child, because if you do it when you’re 26, it can be dangerous.” IfsShouldTryingChildrenChildhoodDangerousOur ChildrenYour Children Author:Mike Lookinland
“If you wonder where your child left his roller skates, try walking around the house in the dark.” IfsTryingChildrenHouseLeftDarkWonderWalkingOur ChildrenYour ChildrenSkates Author:Leopold Fechtner
“We deprive our children, our charges, of persistence. What I am trying to say is that we need to fail, children need to fail, we need to feel sad, anxious and anguished. If we impulsively protect ourselves and our children, as the feel-good movement suggests, we deprive them of learning-persistence skills.” IfsNeedsFeelsTryingChildrenFailingMovementProtectSkillsOur ChildrenFeel GoodPersistenceAnxious Author:Martin Seligman
“If we were really tough on crime, we'd try to save our children from the desperation and deprivation that leave them primed for a life of crime.” IfsTryingChildrenCrimeToughOur ChildrenDesperationDeprivationSensory Deprivation Author:Carrie P. Meek
“If you want your children to listen, try talking softly - to someone else.” IfsWantTryingChildrenFunnyTalkingOur ChildrenWittyYour Children Author:Ann Landers
“... Once you're safely in the mall, you should tie your children to you with ropes so the other shoppers won't try to buy them. Holiday shoppers have been whipped into a frenzy by months of holiday advertisements, and they will buy anything small enough to stuff into a shopping bag. If your children object to being tied, threaten to take them to see Santa Claus; that ought to shut them up.” IfsShouldTryingChildrenHas BeensEnoughStuffObjectsMonthsOughtHumorousOur ChildrenYour ChildrenTiesHolidayBagsShoppingTiedRopeSantaMallsAdvertisementsSanta ClausFrenzyShoppers Author:Dave Barry