Your responsibility as a paren...

Your responsibility as a parent is not as great as you might imagine. You need not supply the world with the next conqueror of disease or major motion-picture star. If your child simply grows up to be someone who does not use the word ""collectible"" as a noun, you can consider yourself an unqualified success.

~Fran Lebowitz, ""Parental Guidance,"" Social Studies, 1981~

Your folks are like God becaus...

Your folks are like God because you want to know they're out there and you want them to approve of your life, still you only call them when you're in a crisis and need something.

~Chuck Palahniuk~

Your children vividly remember...

Your children vividly remember every unkind thing you ever did to them, plus a few you really didn't.

~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966~

Your children tell you casuall...

Your children tell you casually years later what it would have killed you with worry to know at the time.

~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966~

Your children need your presen...

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

~Jesse Jackson~

You will always be your child'...

You will always be your child's favorite toy.

~Vicki Lansky, Trouble-Free Travel with Children, 1991~

You see much more of your chil...

You see much more of your children once they leave home.

~Lucille Ball~

You have a lifetime to work, b...

You have a lifetime to work, but children are only young once.

~Polish Proverb~

You don't really understand hu...

You don't really understand human nature unless you know why a child on a merry-go-round will wave at his parents every time around - and why his parents will always wave back.

~William D. Tammeus~

You don't have to deserve your...

You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father s. He's more particular. The father is always a Republican towards his son, and his mother's always a Democrat.

~Robert Frost
1875-1963, American Poet~

Who takes the child by the han...

Who takes the child by the hand takes the mother by the heart.

~German proverb~

Who doesn't desire his father'...

Who doesn't desire his father's death?

~Fyodor Dostoyevsky~

While we try to teach our chil...

While we try to teach our children all about life, Our children teach us what life is all about.

~Angela Schwindt~

Where parents do too much for ...

Where parents do too much for their children, the children will not do much for themselves.

~Elbert Hubbard~

Whenever I held my newborn bab...

Whenever I held my newborn baby in my arms, I used to think that what I said and did to him could have an influence not only on him but on all whom he met, not only for a day or a month or a year, but for all eternity - a very challenging and exciting thought for a mother.

~Rose Kennedy~

When you teach your son, you t...

When you teach your son, you teach your son's son.

~The Talmud~

When you have brought up kids,...

When you have brought up kids, there are memories you store directly in your tear ducts.

~Robert Brault, ~

When you become a parent, or a...

When you become a parent, or a teacher, you turn into a manager of this whole system. You become the person controlling the bubble of innocence around a child, regulating it.

~Kazuo Ishiguro~

When one has not had a good fa...

When one has not had a good father, one must create one.

~Friedrich Nietzsche~

When my kids become wild and u...

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

~Erma Bombeck~