Browsing Topic Best Your Children Quotes

It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.

In the end, it’s not what you do for your children but what you’ve taught them to do for themselves.

Don’t educate your children to be rich. Educate them to be happy, so they know the value of things, not the price.

If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others.

Be the best father you can be to your children. Because nothing is more important.

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

It isn’t what you leave your children but how you leave them.

The greatest treasure you can leave your children is a sense of modesty and the advice to follow virtuous persons.

Treat the earth well: it was not given to you by your parents, it was loaned to you by your children. We do not inherit the Earth from our Ancestors, we borrow it from our Children.

Never allow your child to call you by your first name. He hasn’t known you long enough.

The soul is healed by being with children.

You have only one chance to raise your child.

It’s a great mistake, I think, to put children off with falsehoods and nonsense, when their growing powers of observation and discrimination excite in them a desire to know about things.

Only you know your circumstances, your energy level, the needs of your children, and the emotional demands of your other obligations. Be wise during intensive seasons of your life. Cherish your agency, and don’t give it away casually. Don’t compare yourself to others — nearly always this will make you despondent. Don’t accept somebody else’s interpretation of how you should be spending your time. Make the best decision you can and then evaluate it to see how it works.

If you bungle raising your children, I don’t think whatever else you do matters very much.

Whatever it is, handle it so that your children’s children will get the benefit of it.

Inform yourself, inform your children, talk to your friends! And let’s try to make a better, stonier world than the one we inherited!

Are you the adult that you want your child to grow up to be?

You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.

Leave your pride, ego, and narcissism somewhere else. Reactions from those parts of you will reinforce your children’s most primitive fears.

Your children….are like diamonds…they may need polish.. and education of the right kind will impart this lustre.

When you say No, you also become a role model of healthy boundaries for others (especially your children).

One thing they never tell you about child raising is that for the rest of your life, at the drop of a hat, you are expected to know your child’s name and how old he or she is.

I actually think leaving your children alone to fantasize, to write, to make projects on their own is good for them. Breathing down their necks is a form of control. Children should have their own space.

The greatest responsibility is your children. If my children turned out badly, I’d feel that nothing I had done was worthwhile.

You have to tell your children about the world they live in, about the discrepancies, about the things that don’t work… So you have to bring it up with a scientific orientation so they learn to ask questions, and learn how to say the most difficult thing in the world: ‘I don’t know’.

If you want your children to relate to the culture you live in, if you want to train them outside of the general system, you have to tell your children that ordinary children tend to say things like ‘I can run faster than you; I can draw better than you; I know things you don’t know’. You have to tell them what normal children are like. Normal children are messed up and you have to tell them about that. But if you instruct your child in high correlation with the physical world, they won’t be able to relate with normal children. Normal means mixed up as I use the word.

We have the illusion of freedom only because so few ever try to exercise it. Try it sometime. Try to save your home from the highway crowd, or to work a trade without the approval of the goons, or to open a little business without a permit, or to grow a crop without a quota, or to educate your child the way you want to, or to not have a child. We all have the freedom of a balloon floating in a pin factory.

I am the most ruthless, brutal champion ever. There is no one who can match me. I want your heart. I want to eat your children.

Parents are led to believe that they must be consistent, that is, always respond to the same issue the same way. Consistency is good up to a point but your child also needs to understand context and subtlety . . . much of adult life is governed by context: what is appropriate in one setting is not appropriate in another; the way something is said may be more important than what is said. . . .

Even if you find yourself in a heated exchange with your toddler, it is better for your child to feel the heat rather than for himto feel you withdraw emotionally…. Active and emotional involvement between parent and child helps the child make the limits a part of himself.

One of the most effective means for transcending ordinary and moving into the realm of extraordinary is saying yes more frequently and eliminating no almost completely. I call it saying yes to life. Say yes to yourself, to your family, your children, your coworkers, and your business.

Don’t point your finger to the heights your children should go. Start climbing and they will follow.

Words can make you sick. Or healed. – Words create worlds because the universe is always listening… and so are your cells, your psyche, and your children, your team, and the apples

How long has it been since you took your children, whatever their size, in your arms and told them that you love them and are glad that they can be yours forever?