It's fun being a kid.

There is no sinner like a young saint.

It is amazing how quickly the kids learn to drive a car, yet are unable to understand the lawnmower, snow-blower, or vacuum cleaner.

Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him. [Proverbs 22:15]

Many children, many cares; no children, no felicity.

Children are curious and are risk takers. They have lots of courage. They venture out into a world that is immense and dangerous. A child initially trusts life and the processes of life.

The only moral lesson which is suited for a child, the most important lesson for every time of life, is this: "Never hurt anybody."

A society in which adults are estranged from the world of children, and often from their own childhood, tends to hear children's speech only as a foreign language, or as a lie. Children have been treated. as congenital fibbers, fakers and fantasisers.

There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.

Children have more need of models than of critics.

For many children, joy comes as the result of mining something unique and wondrous about themselves from some inner shaft.

Parents are often so busy with the physical rearing of children that they miss the glory of parenthood, just as the grandeur of the trees is lost when raking leaves.

There are three ways to get something done: do it yourself, employ someone, or forbid your children to do it.

All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.

Better to be driven out from among men than to be disliked of children.

It might sound a paradoxical thing to say --for surely never has a generation of children occupied more sheer hours of parental time --but the truth is that we neglected you. We allowed you a charade of trivial freedoms in order to avoid making those impositions on you that are in the end both the training ground and proving ground for true independence. We pronounced you strong when you were still weak in order to avoid the struggles with you that would have fed your true strength. We proclaimed you sound when you were foolish in order to avoid taking part in the long, slow, slogging effort that is the only route to genuine maturity of mind and feeling. Thus, it was no small anomaly of your growing up that while you were the most indulged generation, you were also in many ways the most abandoned to your own meager devices by those into whose safe-keeping you had been given.

Don't throw away your friendship with your teenager over behavior that has no great moral significance. There will be plenty of real issues that require you to stand like a rock. Save your big guns for those crucial confrontations.

You should study not only that you become a mother when your child is born, but also that you become a child.

So long as little children are allowed to suffer, there is no true love in this world.

Your children will see what you're all about by what you live rather than what you say.

We must teach our children to dream with their eyes open.

A child is not a salmon mousse. A child is a temporarily disabled and stunted version of a larger person, whom you will someday know. Your job is to help them overcome the disabilities associated with their size and inexperience so that they get on with being that larger person.

Grown men can learn from very little children for the hearts of little children are pure. Therefore, the Great Spirit may show to them many things which older people miss.

Strange new problems are being reported in the growing generations of children whose mothers were always there, driving them around, helping them with their homework --an inability to endure pain or discipline or pursue any self-sustained goal of any sort, a devastating boredom with life.

It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Alas! regardless of their doom, the little victims play! No sense have they of ills to come nor care beyond today.

I believe in making the world safe for our children, but not our children's children, because I don't think children should be having sex.

Children seldom have a proper sense of their own tragedy, discounting and keeping hidden the true horrors of their short lives, humbly imagining real calamity to be some prestigious drama of the grown-up world.

A child's education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born.

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Children need love, especially when they don't deserve it.

Each child is an adventure into a better life --an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.

Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man; youth never.

One of the most obvious facts about grownups to a child is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child.

Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.

Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they're going to catch you in next.

Normally, children learn to gauge rather accurately from the tone of their parent's voice how seriously to take his threats. Of course, they sometimes misjudge and pay the penalty.

Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted.

A child miseducated is a child lost.

We inevitably doom our children to failure and frustration when we try to set their goals for them.

When I consider how little of a rarity children are -- that every street and blind alley swarms with them -- that the poorest people commonly have them in most abundance -- that there are few marriages that are not blest with at least one of these bargains -- how often they turn out ill, and defeat the fond hopes of their parents, taking to vicious courses, which end in poverty, disgrace, the gallows, etc. -- I cannot for my life tell what cause for pride there can possibly be in having them.

A child is fed with milk and praise.

The secret of dealing successfully with a child is not to be its parent.

Too often when give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.

Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.

Instead of needing lots of children, we need high-quality children.

A little less worry over the child and a bit more concern about the world we make for the child to live in.

If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.

He continued to be an infant long after he ceased to be a prodigy.

Where children are, there is the golden age.

How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.

You know children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers.

Children's liberation is the next item on our civil rights shopping list.

If you have a great passion it seems that the logical thing is to see the fruit of it, and the fruit are children.

Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.

The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it"

In great countries, children are always trying to remain children, and the parents want to make them into adults. In vile countries, the children are always wanting to be adults and the parents want to keep them children.

Let your children be as so many flowers, borrowed from God. If the flowers die or wither, thank God for a summer loan of them.

Adults are obsolete children.

Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong.

You save an old man and you save a unit; but save a boy, and you save a multiplication table.

The more people have studied different methods of bringing up children the more they have come to the conclusion that what good mother and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is the best after all.

Children are the keys of paradise.

We worry about what a child will be tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today.

It needs courage to let our children go, but we are trustees and stewards and have to hand them back to life--to God. As the old saying puts it: "What I gave I have." We have to love them and lose them.

If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.

Give me a child for the first seven years, and you may do what you like with him afterwards.

Kids use to ask where they came from, now they tell you where to go

Birds in their little nest agree; and 'Tis a shameful sight, when children of one family fall out, and chide, and fight.

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.

There's no point in being grown up if you cant be childish sometimes.

The potential possibilities of any child are the most intriguing and stimulating in all creation.

Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old-fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.

Winning children (who appear so guileless) are children who have discovered how effective charm and modesty and a delicately calculated spontaneity are in winning what they want.

Before I got married, I had six theories about bringing up children. Now I have six children and no theories.

Give me the children until they are seven and anyone may have them afterwards.

When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.