Never help a child with a task he feels he can succeed.

The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any.

Children learn to be kind by experiencing kindness. Not by being told to be kind.

Teach your children early what you learned late.

Teach your children how to think, not what to think.

Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.

It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.

Nothing affects the life of a child so much as the unlived life of its parent.

The most difficult thing in the world is to know how to do a thing and to watch someone else doing it wrong, without commenting.

Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.

The way we talk to our children becomes their inner voice.

Children are not things to be molded, but people to be unfolded.

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Parenting is about preparing the child for the road, not preparing the road for the child.

The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.

The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.

The best way to make children good is to make them happy.

Parenting is the easiest thing in the world to have an opinion about, but the hardest thing in the world to do.

We spend the first year teaching a child to walk and talk and the rest of their lives telling them to sit down and be quiet.

The problem with parenting is that by the time you're experienced, you're unemployed.

Good parents give their children roots and wings. Roots to know where home is, wings to fly away and exercise what's been taught them.

There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.

The most effective form of birth control is raising someone else's children for the weekend.

Making the decision to have a child - it is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.

Before I got married I had six theories about raising children; now I have six children and no theories.

The simplest toy, one which even the youngest child can operate, is called a grandparent.

There is no such thing as a perfect parent. So just be a real one.

If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them, and half as much money.

The most important thing she'd learned over the years was that there was no way to be a perfect mother, but a million ways to be a good one.

Your kids require you most of all to love them for who they are, not to spend your whole time trying to correct them.

The best inheritance a parent can give his children is a few minutes of his time each day.

Parenting: the days are long, but the years are short.

You will always be your child's favorite toy.

The art of parenting is knowing when to hold on and when to let go, when to speak and when to listen, when to teach and when to learn.