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“But kids don't stay with you if you do it right. It's the one job where, the better you are, the more surely you won't be needed in the long run.”
"Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent."
— Carl Jung
"A mother only does her children harm if she makes them the only concern of her life."
— Somerset Maugham
"If from infancy you treat children as gods, they are liable in adulthood to act as devils."
— P.D. James
"If you, as a parent, raise your children well, they won't need you anymore. If you did it properly, they go away."
— Neil Gaiman
"There is no single effort more radical in its potential for saving the world than a transformation of the way we raise our children."
— Marianne Williamson
"Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation."
— Lois McMaster Bujold
"You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth."
— Khalil Gibran
"Children are not a zoo of entertainingly exotic creatures, but an array of mirrors in which the human predicament leaps out at us."
— John Updike
"work at our responsibility as parents as if everything in life counted on it, because in fact everything in life does count on it."
— Gordon B. Hinckley
"If we are worried about the future, then we must look today at the upbringing of children."
"Parents are like shuttles on a loom. They join the threads of the past with threads of the future and leave their own bright patterns as they go."
— Fred Rogers
"You're never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child."
— Dr. Seuss
"Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children."
— Charles R. Swindoll
"Who we are and how we engage with the world are much stronger predictors of how our children will do than what we know about parenting."
— Brené Brown
"Being a mother is an attitude, not a biological relation."
— Robert Heinlein
"It's impossible to protect your kids against disappointment in life."
— Nicholas Sparks
"There's no single effort more radical in it's potential for saving the world than a transformation of the way we raise our children."
"Some of our children are our justifications and some are but our regrets."
"Nobody ever feels they’re doing well with teenagers,' he said. 'I think that’s kind of the point of them."
— Jojo Moyes
"Nobody ever feels they’re doing well with teenagers,” he said. “I think that’s kind of the point of them."