Parenting sayings

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◆ Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society.

- Benjamin Franklin99

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

- Jane D. Hull99

◆ Having a baby is a life-changer. It gives you a whole other perspective on why you wake up every day.

- Taylor Hanson99

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

- Charles R. Swindoll99

◆ To be a good father and mother requires that the parents defer many of their own needs and desires in favor of the needs of their children. As a consequence of this sacrifice, conscientious parents develop a nobility of character and learn to put into practice the selfless truths taught by the Savior Himself.

- James E. Faust99

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

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe99

◆ A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone.

- Billy Graham99

◆ Every word, facial expression, gesture, or action on the part of a parent gives the child some message about self-worth. It is sad that so many parents don't realize what messages they are sending.

- Virginia Satir99

◆ I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.

- Sigmund Freud99

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

- Robert Fulghum99

◆ When you hold your baby in your arms the first time, and you think of all the things you can say and do to influence him, it's a tremendous responsibility. What you do with him can influence not only him, but everyone he meets and not for a day or a month or a year but for time and eternity.

- Rose Kennedy99

◆ Children are not casual guests in our home. They have been loaned to us temporarily for the purpose of loving them and instilling a foundation of values on which their future lives will be built.

- James Dobson99

◆ If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.

- Jackie Kennedy99

◆ Even as kids reach adolescence, they need more than ever for us to watch over them. Adolescence is not about letting go. It's about hanging on during a very bumpy ride.

- Ron Taffel99

◆ There are times as a parent when you realize that your job is not to be the parent you always imagined you'd be, the parent you always wished you had. Your job is to be the parent your child needs, given the particulars of his or her own life and nature.

- Ayelet Waldman99