Only be careful, and watch yourselves closely so that you do not forget the things your eyes have seen or let them slip from your heart as long as you live. Teach them to your children and to their children after them. Remember the day you stood before the Lord your God at Horeb, when he said to me, "Assemble the people before me to hear my words so that they may learn to revere me as long as they live in the land and may teach them to their children."
Deuteronomy 4:9-10

If a child lives with criticism, he learns to condemn.
If a child lives with hostility, he learns to fight.
If a child lives with fear, he learns to be apprehensive.
If a child lives with jealousy, he learns to feel guilty.
If a child lives with tolerance, he learns to be patient.
If a child lives with encouragement, he learns to be confident.
If a child lives with praise, he learns to be appreciative.
If a child lives with acceptance, he learns to love.
If a child lives with approval, he learns to like himself.
If a child lives with recognition, he learns it is good to have a goal.
If a child lives with honesty, he learns what truth is.
If a child lives with fairness, he learns justice.
If a child lives with security, he learns to have faith in himself and those about him.
If a child lives with approval, he learns to like himself.
If a child lives with acceptance and friendship, he learns to find love in the world.
Dorothy Nolte

If I had my child to raise all over again,
I'd build self-esteem first, and the house later.
I'd finger-paint more, and point the finger less.
I would do less correcting and more connecting.
I'd take my eyes off my watch, and watch with my eyes.
I'd take more hikes and fly more kites.
I'd stop playing serious, and seriously play.
I would run through more fields and gaze at more stars.
I'd do more hugging and less tugging.
Diane Loomans

Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.
Proverbs 22:6

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

A baby will make love stronger, days shorter, nights longer, bankroll smaller, home happier, clothes shabbier, the past forgotten, and the future worth living for.
Anonymous

The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother, and the most important thing a mother can do for her children is to love their father.
Anonymous

A truly appreciative child will break, lose, spoil, or fondle to death any really successful gift within a matter of minutes.
Russell Lynes

To understand your parents' love you must raise children yourself.
Chinese Proverb

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

Whoever said it first spoke with insight and wisdom: you don't own children, you only borrow them.
Anne Linn

To be in your children's memories tomorrow, you have to be in their lives today.
Anonymous

First you have to teach a child to talk, then you have to teach it to be quiet.
Prochnow

Life affords no greater responsibility, no greater privilege, than the raising of the next generation.
C. Everett Koop

Praise your children openly, reprehend them secretly.
W. Cecil

Parents need to fill a child's bucket of self-esteem so high that the rest of the world can't poke enough holes to drain it dry.
Alvin Price

Discipline doesn't break a child's spirit half as often as the lack of it breaks a parents heart.
Anonymous

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

All children behave as well as they are treated.
Jan Hunt

Stop trying to perfect your child, but keep trying to perfect your relationship with him.
Dr. Henker

Discipline your son in his early years while there is still hope. If you don't you will ruin his life.
Anonymous

It is better to bind your children to you by a feeling of respect and by gentleness, than by fear.
Terence

Your children will become what you are; so be what you want them to be.
David Bly

There's no point in being grown up if you can't be childish sometimes.
Dr. Who

If your baby is beautiful and perfect, never cries or fusses, sleeps on schedule and burps on demand, an angel all the time, you're the grandma.
Theresa Bloomingdale

I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.
Harry S. Truman

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

Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother.
Lin Yutang

A mother understands what a child does not say.
Jewish Proverb