Your Children Quotes

Worry not that your child listens to you; worry most that they watch you.

Conduct yourself towards your parents as you would have your children conduct themselves towards you.

If you can prevent one fight among your children, let it be the fight for your attention.

Show as much interest in what your children tell you as they have in telling you.

When you feel your child truly loves you back, it makes you wish you had kissed your parents more.

When your child is sick, you have tunnel vision.

If you and your child were going to be killed tomorrow, would you not give him to eat today?

How you handle peer pressure - the pressure your children feel as well as the pressure you feel - in the early years will play a significant role in how your children handle peer pressure when they become adolescents.

You can only have one first born child. You may love all your children deeply and with passion, but there is something unique about the first born.

I do think that the badmouthing and alienating of a child from a parent is one of the few unforgivable sins. I do think those people will have to answer to God who will say, “You allowed your anger to destroy the relationship of your child to the other parent? Isn't that why I gave you a conscience?

If you train your children to anything, train them, at least, to a habit of prayer.

If you would train your children rightly, train them in the way they should go and not in the way they would.

The love you have for your child is so much greater than any challenge you'll face as a parent, and that's what helps you through.

People should tell your children what life is all about - it's about work.

Your children vividly remember every unkind thing you ever did to them, plus a few you really didn't.

The trouble with learning to parent on the job is that your child is the teacher.

Teach your children well...and feed them on your dreams...Don't ever ask them why. If they told you you would cry. So just look at them and sigh and know they love you.

Scold your children, and they will know what is wrong; but correct them with love, and they will know what is right.

Teach your child to hold his tongue; he'll learn fast enough to speak.

If you want to save your child from polio, you can pray or you can inoculate....Try science.

One of the commonest mistakes is thinking your worries are over when your children get married.

If your child has a weakness, teach them how to turn it into a strength! The only Failure is not trying.

Your children are not your children, they come through you, but they are life itself, wanting to express itself.

Your children tell you casually years later what it would have killed you with worry to know at the time.

Your children are your retirement plan. Because of that, all parents want their children, their only children, to do really well financially, so that they can essentially take care of their parents when they are older.

If you're normal, if you're healthy, you look at your children and you see your image, and you want the best for them. And you applaud when they take their first steps. And you are their biggest fan when they first sing in church. And, you know, that's a normal healthy person, father, parent, I believe. Well, multiply that by infinity and that's how God sees you. So I say that's pretty "nice."

I learned a lot from my Mom. My favorite lesson: remember there is no such thing as a certain way to parent and to remember that you are learning along with your child - it's ok to make mistakes.

Don't be a victim of the urgent. In the long run, much of what seems so pressing right now won't even matter. What you do with your children will matter forever.

If you treat your children at home in the same way you treat your animals in the lab, your wife will scratch your eyes out. My wife ferociously warned me against experimenting on her babies.

Love is the key. Giving your children joy and happiness...when you give it to them, you will receive it as well.

An infallible way to make your child miserable is to satisfy all his demands.

The greatest treasure you can leave your children is a sense of modesty and the advice to follow virtuous persons.

To outlive one's child is a terrible thing, but to do so because your child has taken his or her life is horrible.

My theory is that there is a finite amount of intelligence in a family, and you're supposed to gradually transfer it to your children over a period of many years. This is why your parents started to get so stupid just at the time in your life when you were getting really smart.

If there is no order in your relationship with your wife, with your husband, with your children, with your neighbour - whether that neighbour is near or very far away - forget about meditation.

All feelings that concentrate you and lift you up are pure; only that feeling is impure which grasps just one side of your being and thus distorts you. Everything you can think of as you face your childhood, is good. Everything that makes more of you than you have ever been, even in your best hours, is right. Every intensification is good, if it is in your entire blood, if it isn't intoxication or muddiness, but joy which you can see into, clear to the bottom.

You bring up your children to be self-reliant and independent and they double-cross you and become self-reliant and independent.

If you're flying with your children, it's best to book them on the same flight and not on one where they have more legroom and are leaving at a different time. They could get there earlier than you, and that causes resentment. Two-year-olds can also never figure out those connecting flights. It just makes it harder, so travel as a family.

I say, when your hair turns gray and your children think they know who you are, do the thing that shakes up who you think you are, even who you had prided yourself on being. When all those around you say they simply don't recognize you any longer, that's the real compliment.

... freedom translates into having a supply of clean water, having electricity on tap; being able to live in a decent home and have a good job; to be able to send your children to school and to have accessible healthcare. I mean what's the point of having made this transition if the quality of life ... is not enhanced and improved? If not, the vote is useless.

A child gets a fever in the United States and it's high enough and sustainable enough, all of us can bring a child to an emergency room. Most Haitians never had that opportunity. They didn't have the emergency room to bring them to. Virtually every time your child has 102 fever, you wait for it to die and you have no clean water to give it.

Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.

When your children arrive, the best you can hope for is that they break open everything about you. Your mind floods with oxygen. Your heart becomes a room with wide-open windows. You laugh hard every day.

If something happened along the route and you had to leave your children with Bob Dole or Bill Clinton, I think you would probably leave them with Bob Dole.

Education begins at home. You can't blame the school for not putting into your child what you don't put into him.

In fiction, it's as if you enter a dream world that you created, but your characters have their own free will. They don't do what you want them to do - they get into trouble, do drugs, fight over petty things, and do outrageous things that you wouldn't want your children to do. In other words, you can only provide the background, the seeds - in my case the background of the Vietnamese refugee.

I know California isn't a real destination. You can't get there from New Jersey, not simply by following a line drawn on a map. The process of arrival is more subtle and complex. It involves acts of contrition. You must appease the gods. You must find novel forms of penance. You must tattoo your children and look at the wonder. It's about conjuring and awakening and intuitions you wish you never had.

Keep your families close together, and love and honor your children.

But for fatherhood advice, try to look your child in the eye.... Get to know their name; that becomes important when you want something. And remember to feed them. That's about all you need.