When parents spoil their children, it is less to please them than to please themselves. It is the egotism of parental love.
Parents Quotes
Americans, indeed, often seem to be so overwhelmed by their children that they’ll do anything for them except stay married to the co-producer.
The easiest way to teach children the value of money is to borrow some from them.
There are no illegitimate children only illegitimate parents.
Discipline doesn’t break a child’s spirit half as often as the lack of it breaks a parent’s heart.
It’s a funny thing about being a parent. There aren’t any tech manuals, no quick read-outs to get you through the next set of variables. You’ve just got to wing it from day to day. (Kyle Riker)
Parents wonder why the streams are bitter when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.
It seems like only yesterday he was five years old – clinging to me because he’d just scraped his knee and I was the only one in the world who could make it better. I remember sometimes getting up in the middle of the night and slipping into his room just to make sure he […]
Children who avoid the mistakes their parents made often make the mistakes their parents avoided.
Bad manners are the fault of the parent, not the child. (Dukat, “Things Past”)
