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What Parents Give Their Children
"Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy." - Robert A. Heinlein
"Your children need your presence more than your presents." - Jesse Jackson
"In the end, it's not what you do for your children...but what you've taught
them to do for themselves." - Ann Landers
"There are two lasting bequests we can give our children. One is
roots. The other is wings." - Hodding Carter, Jr.
"A child, like your stomach, doesn't need all you can afford to give it."
- Frank A. Clark
"In bringing up children, spend on them half as much money and twice as much
time." - Author Unknown
"Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying." - Fran Lebowitz,
Social Studies
"I've been very blessed. My parents always told me I could be anything I wanted.
When you grow up in a household like that, you learn to believe in yourself." -
Rick Schroeder
“Sometimes we’re so concerned about giving our children what we never
had growing up, we neglect to give them what we did have growing up.”
- James Dobson
"If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be
enthusiasm."
- Bruce Barton
"We should say to each [of our children]:...you may become a
Shakespeare, a Michelangelo, a Beethoven." - Pablo Casals (Cellist)
"Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems
to solve." - Roger Lewin
"All children need to grow up believing that what they are heading for
is reachable and worth seeking. Then it will be." - Mel Levine
"Loving a child doesn't mean giving in to his every whim; to love him
is to bring out the best in him, to teach him to love what is difficult." -
Nadia Boulanger
"Each day of our lives, we make deposits in the memory banks of our
children."
- Charles R. Swindoll
"If you want your children to keep their feet on the ground, put some
responsibility on their shoulders." - Abigail van Buren
"Love means...spending time and paying attention to children. It
means family rituals. Children like structure and they like to have things they
can count on happening." - Marion Wright Edelman
"The best thing to spend on your children is time." - Louise Hart
"Parents need to fill a child's bucket of self-esteem so high that the
rest of the world can't poke enough holes in it to drain it dry." - Alvin Price
"Loving your child also means respecting him as a person. Treat him
with the same courtesy as would a friend." - Claudia Jones
"Long before I was a success, my parents made me feel like I could be
one."
- Toni Morrison
"The doctors told me I would never walk, but my mother told me I would
- so I listened to my mother." - Wilma Rudolph, US Olympic Gold Medal Winner
"All kids need is a little help, a little hope and somebody who
believes in them.
- Earvin "Magic" Johnson
"Children have more need of models than of critics." - Carolyn
Coats, Things Your Dad Always Told You But You Didn't Want to Hear
"What a child doesn't receive he can seldom later give." - P.D. James, Time
to Be in Earnest
"The best inheritance a person can give to his children is a few
minutes of his time each day" - O. A. Battista
"Nothing you
do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting
our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never
wasted." – Garrison Keillor
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