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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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