The secret of dealing successfully with a child is not to be its parent.
Parents Quotes
Here all mankind is equal: rich and poor alike, they love their children.
Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself. They come through you but not from you, and though they are with you, and yet they belong not to you. You may give them your love, but not your thoughts. for they have their own thoughts. You […]
The pressures of being a parent are equal to any pressure on earth. To be a conscious parent, and really look to that little being’s mental and physical health, is a responsibility which most of us, including me, avoid most of the time because it’s too hard.
Unblessed is the son who does not honor his parents; but if reverent and obedient to them, he will receive the same from his own children.
Of some forty families I have been able to observe, I know hardly four in which the parents do not act in such a way that nothing would be more desirable for the child than to escape their influence.
When God wants to speak and deal with us, he does not avail himself of an angel but of parents, or the pastor, or of our neighbor.
The great high of winning Wimbledon lasts for about a week. You go down in the record books, but you don’t have anything tangible to hold on to. But having a baby – there just isn’t any comparison.
Leontine. An only son, sir, might expect more indulgence. Croaker. An only father, sir, might expect more obedience.
A false love blinds parents so that they regard the body of their child more than his soul. Hence the wise man says, “He that spareth his rod hateth his son; but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes”. (Prov. XIII,24)
