Confucius said, “Obey your father and mother.” He did not mean though, “Obey them right or wrong.” A good child protects the good name of his or her parents by refusing to obey any order that is seriously wrong.
Children Quotes
People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children. (“Calvin and Hobbes”)
Parents are the bone on which children sharpen their teeth.
Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future lives and crimes from society.
In every man there lies hidden a child between five and eight years old, the age at which naivete comes to an end. It is this child whom one must detect in that intimidating man with his long beard, bristling eyebrows, heavy mustache, and weighty look – a captain. Even he conceals, and not at […]
The child that never learns to obey his parents in the home will not obey God or man out of the home.
A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm.
Her child was like a load that held her down, and yet like a hand that pulled her to her feet.
A grandfather was walking through his yard when he heard his granddaughter repeating the alphabet in a tone of voice that sounded like a prayer. He asked her what she was doing. The little girl explained: “I’m praying, but I can’t think of exactly the right words, so I’m just saying all the letters, and […]
Many parents are finding out that a pat on the back helps develop character – if given often enough, early enough, and low enough.
