Parenting proverbs

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◆ Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

- James Baldwin99

◆ What a kid I got, I told him about the birds and the bees and he told me about the butcher and my wife.

- Rodney Dangerfield99

◆ Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.

- Benjamin Franklin99

◆ Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.

- Anne Frank99

◆ What it's like to be a parent: It's one of the hardest things you'll ever do but in exchange it teaches you the meaning of unconditional love.

- Nicholas Sparks99

◆ Your children are the greatest gift God will give to you, and their souls the heaviest responsibility He will place in your hands. Take time with them, teach them to have faith in God. Be a person in whom they can have faith. When you are old, nothing else you've done will have mattered as much.

- Lisa Wingate99

◆ I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren't trying to teach us. We are formed by little scraps of wisdom.

- Umberto Eco99

◆ I think that the best thing we can do for our children is to allow them to do things for themselves, allow them to be strong, allow them to experience life on their own terms, allow them to take the subway... let them be better people, let them believe more in themselves.

- C. JoyBell C.99

◆ Children are made readers on the laps of their parents.

- Emilie Buchwald99

◆ We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.

- Franklin D. Roosevelt99

◆ Your kids require you most of all to love them for who they are, not to spend your whole time trying to correct them.

- Bill Ayers99

◆ Each suburban wife struggles with it alone. As she made the beds, shopped for groceries, matched slipcover material, ate peanut butter sandwiches with her children, chauffeured Cub Scouts and Brownies, lay beside her husband at night- she was afraid to ask even of herself the silent question-- 'Is this all?

- Betty Friedan99

◆ It's impossible to protect your kids against disappointment in life.

- Nicholas Sparks99

◆ If your kid needs a role model and you ain't it, you're both fucked.

- George Carlin99

◆ What good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is usually best after all.

- Benjamin Spock98