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

Children are a great comfort in your old age — and they help you reach it faster, too. ~Lionel Kauffman

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

~Robert A. Heinlein

Mother Nature is wonderful. Children get too old for piggy-back rides just about the same time they get too heavy for them.

~Author Unknown

Ignoring your child's positive behavior is a great way to assure it won't happen again.

~Chris Theisen

When my kids become wild and unruly, I use a nice, safe playpen. When they're finished, I climb out.

~Erma Bombeck

Children are natural mimics who act like their parents despite every effort to teach them good manners.

~Author Unknown

Parents who are afraid to put their foot down usually have children who step on their toes. ~Chinese Proverb

The trouble with being a parent is that by the time you are experienced, you are unemployed.

~Author Unknown

"Time out" is incredibly effective...especially when it's the parent that is utilizing it!

~Chris Theisen

“We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.”
~Franklin D. Roosevelt

“To be in your children's memories tomorrow,
You have to be in their lives today.”
~Barbara Johnson

“I want my children to have all the things I couldn’t afford. Then I want to move in with them.”
~Phyllis Diller

At the end of the day, the most overwhelming key to a child's success is the positive involvement of parents.

~Jane D. Hull

Few things are more satisfying than seeing your children have teenagers of their own. ~Doug Larson
 

Don't try to make children grow up to be like you, or they may do it.

~Russell Baker

Most children threaten at times to run away from home. This is the only thing that keeps some parents going.

~Phyllis Diller

Being a mother isn't simply a matter of having children. To think that is as absurd as believing that having a piano makes one a musician.
~Sydney Harris

I could tell that my parents hated me. My bath toys were a toaster and a radio.
~Rodney Dangerfield  

It's difficult to decide whether growing pains are something teenagers have — or are.
~Author Unknown 

The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children.
~Duke of Windsor 

It is better to bind your children to you by a feeling of respect and by gentleness, than by fear.
~Terence

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