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Parenting Quotes To Amuse And Inspire

Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.
- Elizabeth Stone

When you have children yourself, you begin to understand what you owe your parents.
- Japanese Proverb

The most important thing that parents can teach their children is how to get along without them.
- Frank A. Clark

The quickest way for a parent to get a child's attention is to sit down and look comfortable.
- Lane Olinghouse

Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it.
- Harold Hulbert

Praise your children and they will blossom!
- Author Unknown

Some parents could do more for their children by not doing so much for them.
- Author Unknown

We never know the love of our parents for us until we have become parents.
- Henry Ward Beeche

My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.
- Clarence Budinton Kelland
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Parenthood, it's not a job. It's an adventure!
- Unknown

Live so that when your children think of fairness and integrity, they think of you.
- H. Jackson Brown

Don't demand respect as a parent. Demand civility and insist on honesty. But respect is something you must earn - with kids as well as with adults.
- William Attwood

A child born into a home of ideals has inherited the finest and best which life can give him.
- Harry H. Epstein

It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken adults.
- Frederick Douglass

The best inheritance a parent can give his children is a few minutes of his time each day.
- Orlando A. Battista

Don't be discouraged if your children reject your advice. Years later they will offer it to their own offspring.
- Anonymous

When my kids become wild and unruly, I use a nice, safe playpen. When they're finished, I climb out.
- Erma Bombeck

A two-year old is kind of like having a blender, but you don't have a top for it.
- Jerry Seinfeld

A child is a gift that comes through you to the world.
- Unknown

Don’t worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.
- Robert Fulghum

Your children need your presence more than your presents.
- Jesse Jackson

The best way to make children good is to make them happy.
- Oscar Wilde

You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.

- Kahlil Gibran

A person soon learns how little he knows when a child begins to ask questions.
- Richard L. Evans

There are two lasting gifts we can give our children. One is roots. The other is wings.
- Hodding Carter, Jr.

By: Kay Douglas

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