This is the reason why mothers are more devoted to their children than fathers: it is that they suffer more in giving them birth and are more certain that they are their own. - Aristotle
Those who educate children well are more to be honoured than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well. - Aristotle
Thus parents, by humouring and cockering them when little, corrupt the principles of nature in their children, and wonder afterwards to taste the bitter waters, when they themselves have poison'd the fountain. - John Locke
To lose a child ... was something that could end one's world. One could never get back to how it was before. The stars went out. The moon disappeared. The birds became silent. - Alexader McCall Smith
Toddlers who don’t learn gradually about disappointment lose their resilience through lack of practice in give-and-take with other people’s needs. They can become self-centred, demanding, and difficult to like or to be with. - Alicia F. Lieberman
Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve. - Roger Lewin
We know that the outcasts and misfits are the children most likely to become violent, so it only follows that we must pull them into the arms of love and/or acceptance, and find a place where they fit. If our system doesn't have a place where a child fits, there's something wrong with the system, not the child. - William G. Defoore
We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do. - Brigham Young
What children say, they have heard at home. - West African Proverb
What we instil in our children will be the foundation upon which they build their future. - Steve Maraboli
While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about. - Angela Schwindt
You can do anything with children if only you play with them. - German Proverb
Your children need your presence more than your presents. - Jesse Jackson
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