Sing out loud in the car even, or especially, if it embarrasses your children. ~Marilyn Penland
The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children. ~Edward, Duke of Windsor
To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while. ~Josh Billings
Your children need your presence more than your presents. ~Jesse Jackson
Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you. ~Robert Fulghum
The trouble with learning to parent on the job is that your child is the teacher. ~Robert Brault
If you have never been hated by your child you have never been a parent. ~Bette Davis
If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders. ~Abigail Van Buren
Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy. ~Robert A. Heinlein
Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve. ~Roger Lewin
If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others. ~Haim Ginott
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 Wilson
People see only what they are prepared to see. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Education is not the filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire. ~William Butler Yeats
