Parents And Parenting

(334 votes)   The pressures of being a parent are equal to any pressure on earth. To be a conscious parent, and really look to that little being's mental and physical health, is a responsibility which most of us, including me, avoid most of the time because it's too hard.

John Lennon
1940-1980, British Rock Musician

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(123 votes)   Live so that when your children think of fairness and integrity, they think of you.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.
American Author of ''Life's Little Instruction Book'' Series

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(121 votes)   He that does not bring up his son to some honest calling and employment, brings him up to be a thief.

Jewish Proverbs
Sayings of Jewish Origin

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(119 votes)   Parents, they're strict on you when you're little, and you don't understand why. But as you get older, you understand and you appreciate it.

Grant Hill
Basketball Player

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(118 votes)   I wish you would moderate that fondness you have for your children. I do not mean you should abate any part of your care, or not do your duty to them in its utmost extent, but I would have you early prepare yourself for disappointments, which are heavy in proportion to their being surprising.

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
1689-1762, British Society Figure, Letter Writer

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(113 votes)   If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do well matters very much.

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
1929-1994, American First Lady, Wife of John F. Kennedy & Aristotle Onassis

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(111 votes)   Oh, high is the price of parenthood, and daughters may cost you double. You dare not forget, as you thought you could, that youth is a plague and a trouble.

Phyllis Mcginley
1905-1978, American Poet, Author

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(109 votes)   When you teach your son, you teach your son's son.

The Talmud
BC 500?-400? AD, Jewish Archive of Oral Tradition

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(104 votes)   Love well, whip well.

Benjamin Franklin
1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat

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(103 votes)   I wish all the mothers, fathers and children out there realize how much I need them and how much I value their support.

Princess of Wales Diana
1961-1997, Wife of Charles, Prince of Wales

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(102 votes)   The most important thing that parents can teach their children is how to get along without them.

Frank A. Clark

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(101 votes)   The parent is low, who having children, truly feels bored.

Jean Paul

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(94 votes)   Parents are traffic signs that are always in our blind spots.

Jeremy P. Johnson

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(89 votes)   A child, like your stomach, doesn't need all you can afford to give it.

Frank A. Clark

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(89 votes)   Your responsibility as a parent is not as great as you might imagine. You need not supply the world with the next conqueror of disease or major motion-picture star. If your child simply grows up to be someone who does not use the word ''collectible'' as a noun, you can consider yourself an unqualified success.

Fran Lebowitz
1951-, American Journalist

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