It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't.
Barbara KingsolverRead
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It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't.
Parents are the bones on which children cut their teeth.
Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.
It behooves a father to be blameless if he expects his child to be.
If you've never been hated by your child, you've never been a parent.
All of us have moments in our lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.
When my kids become wild and unruly, I use a nice, safe playpen. When they're finished, I climb out.
The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.
There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.
There may be some doubt as to who are the best people to have charge of children, but there can be no doubt that parents are the worst.
The voice of parents is the voice of gods, for to their children they are heaven's lieutenants.
When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
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