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Give me the life of the boy whose mother is nurse, seamstress, washerwoman, cook, teacher, angel, and saint, all in one, and whose father is guide, exemplar, and friend. No servants to come between. These are the boys who are born to the best fortune.
Author: Andrew Carnegie
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If you have never been hated by your child you have never been a parent.
Author: Bette Davis
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Parents are not interested in justice; they are interested in quiet.
Author: Bill Cosby
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In spite of the six thousand manuals on child raising in the bookstores, child raising is still a dark continent and no one really knows anything. You just need a lot of love and luck – and, of course, courage.
Author: Bill Cosby, Fatherhood, 1986
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No matter how calmly you try to referee, parenting will eventually produce bizarre behavior, and I’m not talking about the kids.
Author: Bill Cosby, Fatherhood, 1986
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In spite of the seven thousand books of expert advice, the right way to discipline a child is still a mystery to most fathers and… mothers. Only your grandmother and Ghengis Khan know how to do it.
Author: Billy Cosby
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Parenthood is a lot easier to get into than out of.
Author: Bruce Lansky
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I don’t believe professional athletes should be role models. I believe parents should be role models…. It’s not like it was when I was growing up. My mom and my grandmother told me how it was going to be. If I didn’t like it, they said, ‘Don’t let the door hit you in the ass on your way out.’ Parents have to take better control.
Author: Charles Barkley
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It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.
Author: Colette, My Mother’s House, 1922
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Mother Nature, in her infinite wisdom, has instilled within each of us a powerful biological instinct to reproduce; this is her way of assuring that the human race, come what may, will never have any disposable income.
Author: Dave Barry
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If I had my child to raise all over again, I’d build self-esteem first, and the house later. I’d finger-paint more, and point the finger less. I would do less correcting and more connecting. I’d take my eyes off my watch, and watch with my eyes. I’d take more hikes and fly more kites. I’d stop playing serious, and seriously play. I would run through more fields and gaze at more stars. I’d do more hugging and less tugging.
Author: Diane Loomans, from ‘If I Had My Child To Raise Over Again’
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Raising children is like making biscuits: it is as easy to raise a big batch as one, while you have your hands in the dough.
Author: E.W. Howe
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Being a child at home alone in the summer is a high-risk occupation. If you call your mother at work thirteen times an hour, she can hurt you.
Author: Erma Bombeck
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When my kids become wild and unruly, I use a nice, safe playpen. When they’re finished, I climb out.
Author: Erma Bombeck
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Character is largely caught, and the father and the home should be the great sources of character infection.
Author: Frank H. Cheley
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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.
Author: Frank Pittman, Man Enough
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Although there are many trial marriages… there is no such thing as a trial child.
Author: Gail Sheehy
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Good, honest, hardheaded character is a function of the home. If the proper seed is sown there and properly nourished for a few years, it will not be easy for that plant to be uprooted.
Author: George A. Dorsey
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If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example.
Author: George Bernard Shaw
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There may be some doubt as to who are the best people to have charge of children, but there can be no doubt that parents are the worst.
Author: George Bernard Shaw
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