Someone’s sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.
Warren Buffett
Kids don’t need to be punished. They need to be told why their behavior was wrong and how they can make it right. Kids don’t just need to feel that they can count on others. They need to feel that others are relying on them too.
Adam Grant
I’m proud of you for the times you came in second, or third, or fourth, but what you did was the best you had ever done.
Fred Rogers
A mother is she who can take the place of all others but whose place no one else can take.
Cardinal Meymillod
If your kids misbehave and you get angry at them, the lesson you’re teaching them is about anger, not about behaving better. Be the person that you want your children to become.
Neil Strauss
No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.
Plato
We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
To understand the baby’s mind, it is absolutely essential to take the path of observation and discovery.
Maria Montessori
Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them.
P. J. O’Rourke
Instead of buying your children all the things you never had, you should teach them all the things you were never taught. Material wears out but knowledge stays.
Bruce Lee
Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
Benjamin Spock
Don’t force your kid to comply with the school’s standards. Get him to find his own standards. Then hold him accountable.
Johnny Uzan
Your children need your presence more than your presents.
Jesse Jackson
The way we talk to our children becomes their inner voice.
Peggy O’Mara
Bring up your son with affection till he is five years of age, then be strict with him for the next ten years, and when a son attains the age of sixteen, start treating him like a friend.
Chanakya
Don’t handicap your children by making their lives easy.
Robert A. Heinlein
It is greed to do all the talking and never to listen.
Democritus
Curious that we spend more time congratulating people who have succeeded than encouraging people who have not.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
I don’t think anyone can grow unless he’s loved exactly as he is now, appreciated for what he is rather than what he will be.
Fred Rogers
One of the reasons we judge each other so harshly in this world of parenting is because we perceive anyone else who’s doing anything differently than what we’re doing as criticizing our choices.
Brené Brown
The problem with teaching children to be unmaterialistic is that they become impossible to bribe.
Alain de Botton
A lot of parents will do anything for their kids, except let them be themselves.
Banksy
A child, like your stomach, doesn’t need all you can afford to give it.
Frank A. Clark
A lot of parents pack up their troubles and send them off to summer camp.
Raymond Duncan
My goal is not to be liked, it’s to raise loving and responsible kids.
Maxime Lagacé
The problem with teaching children to think for themselves is they might come to disagree with us.
Alain de Botton
Being a father is the single greatest feeling on earth. Not including those wonderful years I spent without a child, of course.
Ryan Reynolds
Your children will reap what you sow.
Virgil
Being in shape is one of the greatest gifts you’ll ever give your children.
Dan Go
If you want to inhibit kids’ growth, keep telling them they are smart. If you want to give compliments and nurture growth, praise their curiosity and efforts.
Anonymous
Evidence of good parenting: the child has no desire to be famous.
Alain de Botton
Snowplow parents prepare the road for kids. Responsible parents prepare kids for the road. Resilience is built not by eliminating struggle, but by normalizing it. Teach kids to see obstacles as temporary hurdles.
Adam Grant
You really have to be yourself. The best thing that you can do, for anybody, is just to offer one more honest adult in their lives.
Fred Rogers
To be a parent is to be chief designer of a product more advanced than any technology and more interesting than the greatest work of art.
Alain de Botton
I have found the very best way to advise your children is to find out what they want to do and advise them to do it.
Harry S. Truman
All of our growth is rooted in the firm trust that all of those who first cared about us maintained.
Fred Rogers
When you teach your son, you teach your son’s son.
The Talmud
What I would like to give my daughter is the habit of living with freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not by exhortation.
Erica Jong
Children aren’t coloring books. You don’t get to fill them with your favorite colors.
Khaled Hosseini
We have to prepare the child for the path, not the path for the child.
Tim Elmore
The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.
Benjamin Spock
A parents words become the children’s thoughts.
Bill Masur