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- Children will adapt to nearly any rule or routine as long as it is consistently enforced within that particular household.
- Julie A., M.A. Ross and Judy Corcoran, Joint Custody with a Jerk: Raising a Child with an Uncooperative Ex, 2011
- Trust that your child is trying to be the best he can be and that he will do this more readily without your criticism. Know that he usually sees his own faults without you continually pointing them out.
- Julie A., M.A. Ross and Judy Corcoran, Joint Custody with a Jerk: Raising a Child with an Uncooperative Ex, 2011
- When children feel they have to earn our love by what they accomplish, they never feel good about themselves, no matter how much they do, no matter what their age. Indeed, some adults work outrageous hours, make huge salaries, and always strive to accomplish more and yet are never satisfied, no matter what they have achieved. This is because they were never given the free, unconditional love of their parents, the love that is every child’s birthright.
- Julie A., M.A. Ross and Judy Corcoran, Joint Custody with a Jerk: Raising a Child with an Uncooperative Ex, 2011
- Your child can’t hurt you if you don’t accept the hurt. Let it go.
- Julie A., M.A. Ross and Judy Corcoran, Joint Custody with a Jerk: Raising a Child with an Uncooperative Ex, 2011
- Be gentle with the young.
- Juvenal (55 AD - 127 AD)
- The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children.
- King Edward VIII (1894 - 1972)
- Outings are so much more fun when we can savor them through the children's eyes.
- Lawana Blackwell, The Courtship of the Vicar's Daughter, 1998
- Youth isn't always all it's touted to be.
- Lawana Blackwell, The Dowry of Miss Lydia Clark, 1999
- People who say they sleep like a baby usually don't have one.
- Leo J. Burke
- Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation.
- Lois McMaster Bujold, "Barrayar", 1991
- Our children change us... whether they live or not.
- Lois McMaster Bujold, "Barrayar", 1991
- Some men just aren't cut out for paternity. Better they should realize it before and not after they become responsible for a son.
- Lois McMaster Bujold, Ethan of Athos, 1986
- You don't pay back your parents. You can't. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, who hand it down in turn. It's a sort of entailment. Or if you don't have children of the body, it's left as a debt to your common humanity. Or to your God, if you possess or are possessed by one.
- Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign, 1999
- Kids are like buckets of disease that live in your house.
- Louis C. K., Louis C. K.: Chewed Up, 2008
- Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.
- Mary MacCracken
- If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.
- Norman Douglas
- Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
- Humans are the only animals that have children on purpose with the exception of guppies, who like to eat theirs.
- P. J. O'Rourke (1947 - )
- Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
- Peter Ustinov (1921 - 2004)
- Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.
- Phyllis Diller
- Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.
- Rabbinical Saying
- Children are all foreigners.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
- Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.
- Robert Byrne
- I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home.
- Robert Orben
- Never raise your hand to your children; it leaves your midsection unprotected.
- Robert Orben
- A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.
- Robertson Davies, "What's Bred in the Bone"
- The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
- Sam Levenson (1911 - 1980)
- Anyone who uses the phrase 'easy as taking candy from a baby' has never tried taking candy from a baby.
- Unknown
- D'you call life a bad job? Never! We've had our ups and downs, we've had our struggles, we've always been poor, but it's been worth it, ay, worth it a hundred times I say when I look round at my children.
- W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), 'Of Human Bondage', 1915
- How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is
To have a thankless child! - William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), "King Lear", Act 1 scene 4
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