“We inevitably doom our children to failure and frustration when we try to set their goals for them.”
“Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.”
“The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it''”
“Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.”
“Each child is an adventure into a better life --an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.”
“A little less worry over the child and a bit more concern about the world we make for the child to live in.”
“Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.”
“Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.”
“There are three ways to get something done: do it yourself, employ someone, or forbid your children to do it.”
“You should study not only that you become a mother when your child is born, but also that you become a child.”
“Before I got married, I had six theories about bringing up children. Now I have six children and no theories.”
“The finest inheritance you can give to a child is to allow it to make its own way, completely on its own feet.”
“We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us.”
“If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.”
“There is a ''sanctity'' involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.”
“Ignorance... is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it.”
“The best way to keep children at home is to make the home a pleasant atmosphere and let the air out of the tires.”
“If you have a great passion it seems that the logical thing is to see the fruit of it, and the fruit are children.”
“Alas! regardless of their doom, the little victims play! No sense have they of ills to come nor care beyond today.”
“One of the most obvious facts about grownups to a child is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child.”
“Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.”
“What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born.”
“For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.”
“I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.”
“If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed.”
“Birds in their little nest agree; and 'Tis a shameful sight, when children of one family fall out, and chide, and fight.”
“A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice- but as yet unstained.”
“For many children, joy comes as the result of mining something unique and wondrous about themselves from some inner shaft.”
“Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong.”
“Let your children be as so many flowers, borrowed from God. If the flowers die or wither, thank God for a summer loan of them.”