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Babies are cool, until you've done everything to do with 'em and you get bored. That's why T.V. shows about babies don't last more than a year.: Gregory Thomas Garcia, Alan Kirschenbaum, Raising Hope, Burt Rocks, November 30, 2010
A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.: Groucho Marx (1890 - 1977)
My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.: Groucho Marx (1890 - 1977)
I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.: Harry S Truman (1884 - 1972)
It is not giving children more that spoils them; it is giving them more to avoid confrontation.: John Gray, "Children Are From Heaven"
That's the great thing about being in the third grade. If you've got one polysyllabic adjective, everyone thinks you're a genius.: John Green, Vlogbrothers, My Name Is John Green. And I am a Nerd., 10-30-07
You know that children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers.: John J. Plomp
I am amused when goody-goodies proclaim, from the safety of their armchairs, that children are naturally prejudice-free, that they only learn to "hate" from listening to bigoted adults. Nonsense. Tolerance is a learned trait, like riding a bike or playing the piano. Those of us who actually live among children, who see them in their natural environment, know the truth: Left to their own devices, children will gang up on and abuse anyone who is even slightly different from the norm.: Josh Lieb, I am a Genius of Unspeakable Evil and I Want to be Your Class President, 2009
Allowing children to fight their own battles is one of the hardest parenting skills to learn.: Julie A., M.A. Ross and Judy Corcoran, Joint Custody with a Jerk: Raising a Child with an Uncooperative Ex, 2011
Children should feel loved because they exist, not because they’ve behaved in a certain way.: Julie A., M.A. Ross and Judy Corcoran, Joint Custody with a Jerk: Raising a Child with an Uncooperative Ex, 2011
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

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