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Happy is he that is happy in his children.

-T. Fuller

The most wonderful sound our ears can hear

is the sound of a newborn baby.

-Anonymous

People who say they sleep like a  baby

usually don't have one.

-L.J. Burke

A mother is not a person to lean on

but a person to make leaning unnecessary.

-D.C. Fisher

That energy which makes a child hard to manage

is the energy which afterward makes him a manager of life. -H.W. Beecher

Nature makes boys and girls lovely to look upon

so they can be tolerated until they acquire some sense.

-W.L. Phelps

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

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Insanity is hereditary;

you can get it from your children.

-S. Levenson

When a child is allowed to do absolutely as he pleases,

it will not be long until nothing pleases him.

-Anonymous

A mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once,

and by car forever after.

-P. DeVries

Raising children is like making biscuits:

it is as easy to raise a big batch as one,

while you have your hands in the dough.

-E.W. Howe

Even when freshly washed and relieved

of all obvious confections,

children tend to be sticky.

-F. Lebowitz

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A BABY IS...

someone just the size of a hug.

-Anonymous

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A baby is...

a rose with all its sweetest leaves yet folded. -Lord Byron

Two things it is important to give our children

- the first is roots; the other, wings.

-Anonymous

Discipline doesn't break a child's spirit half

as often as the lack of it breaks a parents heart.

-Anonymous

Children are a great comfort in your old age -

and they help you reach it faster, too.

-L. Kaufman

Parents spend half their time wondering

how their children will turn out,

and the other half wondering when they'll turn in.

-Anonymous

The Lord says,

"As surely as I live, your children will be like jewels.

 You will be as proud of them as a bride is of her jewels."

-Isa 49:18 NCV

The most important thing a father can do

for his children is to love their mother.

-T.M. Hesburg

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Discipline your son in his early years

while there is still hope.

If you don't you will ruin his life.

-Prov 19:18

It is better to bind your children to you

by a feeling of respect and by gentleness,

than by fear.

-Terence

Remember,

when your child has a tantrum,

don't have one of your own.

-Dr. J. Kuriansky

A baby is the greatest gift

that life could send you...

-Anonymous

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