Parentology

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

~Robert Fulghum1 point

There is only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it.

~Chinese Proverb1 point

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

~Erma Bombeck1 point

When you have children yourself, you begin to understand what you owe your parents.

~ Japanese Proverb1 point

When a child is born, parents are also born.

~ Anonymous0 points

When you have your first kid, you become a parent. When you get your second kid, you become a referee.

~ Anonymous0 points

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

~Jesse Jackson0 points

Children are a great comfort in your old age - and they help you reach it faster, too.

~Lionel Kauffman0 points

Most of us become parents long before we have stopped being children.

~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook more...0 points

~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 19660 points

The quickest way for a parent to get a child's attention is to sit down and look comfortable.

~Lane Olinghouse0 points

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

~Robert A. Heinlein0 points

Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.

~Roger Lewin0 points

There are two lasting bequests we can give our children. One is roots. The other is wings.

Hodding Carter, Jr.0 points

You will always be your child's favorite toy.

~Vicki Lansky, Trouble-Free Travel with Children, more...0 points

~Vicki Lansky, Trouble-Free Travel with Children, 19910 points

What a child doesn't receive he can seldom later give.

~P.D. James, Time to Be in Earnest0 points

Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.

~Oscar Wilde0 points

The guys who fear becoming fathers don't understand that fathering is not something perfect men do, but something that perfects the man. The end product of child raising is not the child but the parent.

~Frank Pittman, Man Enough0 points

The hardest part of raising a child is teaching them to ride bicycles. A shaky child on a bicycle for the first time needs both support and freedom. The realization that this is what the child will always need can hit hard.

~Sloan Wilson0 points

Insanity is hereditary - you get it from your kids.

~Sam Levenson0 points

The one thing children wear out faster than shoes is parents.

~John J. Plomp0 points

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

~ Anonymous0 points

Instant availability without continuous presence is probably the best role a mother can play.

~Lotte Bailyn0 points

Setting a good example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age.

~William Feather, The Business of Life, 19490 points

A child, like your stomach, doesn't need all you can afford to give it.

~Frank A. Clark0 points

If your kids are giving you a headache, follow the directions on the aspirin bottle, especially the part that says "keep away from children."

~Susan Savannah0 points

You have a lifetime to work, but children are only young once.

~Polish Proverb0 points

A person soon learns how little he knows when a child begins to ask questions.

~ Richard L. Evans0 points

Always kiss your children goodnight - even if they're already asleep.

~ H. Jackson Brown, Jr.0 points

Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children, and no theories.

~ John Wilmot0 points

Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.

~ Charles R. Swindoll0 points

If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.

~ Abigail Van Buren0 points

Praise your children and they will blossom!

~ Anonymous0 points

The most important thing that parents can teach their children is how to get along without them.

~ Frank A. Clark0 points

Praise your children openly, reprehend them secretly.

~ W. Cecil0 points

To be in your children's memories tomorrow, you have to be in their lives today.

~ Anonymous0 points

First you have to teach a child to talk, then you have to teach it to be quiet.

~ Prochnow0 points

There's no point in being grown up if you can't be childish sometimes.

~ Dr. Who0 points

A mother understands what a child does not say.

~ Jewish Proverb0 points

Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it.

~ Harold Hulbert0 points

Your children will become what you are; so be what you want them to be.

~ David Bly0 points

You know your children are growing up when they stop asking you where they came from and refuse to tell you where they're going.

~ P. J. O'Rourke0 points

I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.

~ Harry S. Truman0 points

Children seldom misquote you. In fact, they usually repeat word for word what you shouldn't have said.

~ Anonymous0 points

Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.

~ Michael Levine0 points

Words and pictures are yin and yang. Married, they produce a progeny more interesting than either parent.

~ Dr. Seuss0 points

Parents were the only ones obligated to love you; from the rest of the world you had to earn it.

~ Ann Brashares (Forever in Blue: The Fourth Summe more...0 points

~ Ann Brashares (Forever in Blue: The Fourth Summer of the Sisterhood (Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, Book 4))0 points

I guess the real reason that my wife and I had children is the same reason that Napoleon had for invading Russia: it seemed like a good idea at the time.

~ Bill Cosby0 points

Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same.

~ Pearl Buck (1892 - 1973), quoted in O Magazine, more...0 points

~ Pearl Buck (1892 - 1973), quoted in O Magazine, May 20030 points

By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong.

~ Charles Wadsworth0 points

Children are our second chance to have a great parent-child relationship.

~ Laura Schlessinger0 points