parenting Quotes

As a father and now a grandfather to three wonderful grandchildren, I know how magical the first year of a child's life is but also how much hard work it takes. Being able to spend as much time as possible with your loved ones is absolutely vital, especially early on.

Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.

The trend of opinion among eugenists is that we must make marriage more difficult. Certainly no one who is not a desirable parent should be permitted to produce progeny.

We were never intimate mother and children while she was our mother - but... when she became our child, the affection came.

I never had a mother. I suppose a mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.

You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's.

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.

The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother's always a Democrat.

Women have always been the strong ones of the world. The men are always seeking from women a little pillow to put their heads down on. They are always longing for the mother who held them as infants.

We've begun to raise daughters more like sons... but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.