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Never fear spoiling children by making them too happy. Happiness is the atmosphere in which all good affections grow. . -Thomas Bray.

The character and history of each child may be a new and poetic experience to the parent, if he will let it. -Margaret Fuller.

My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it. -Clarence Budinton Kelland.

Teenagers are people who act like babies if they're not treated like adults. -MAD Magazine.

Children are natural mimics: they act like their parents in spite of every attempt to teach them good manners. -Anonymous.

There is always a moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in. -Graham Green.

I talk and talk and talk, and I haven't taught people in 50 years what my father taught by example in one week. Jesse Jackson -Mario Cuomo.

I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it. -Harry S Truman.

Few things are more satisfying than seeing your own children have teenagers of their own. -Doug Larson.

Any child can tell you that the sole purpose of a middle name is so he can tell when he's really in trouble. -Dennis Fakes.

Raising kids is part joy and part guerilla warfare. -Ed Asner.

You know children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers. -John Plomp.

Television has changed the American child from an irresistable force to an immovable object. -Laurence J. Peter.

There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings. -Hodding Carter.

An aware parent loves all children he or she meets and interacts with-for you are a caretaker for those moments in time. -Doc Childre.

As adults, we must ask more of our children than they know how to ask of themselves. What can we do to foster their open-hearted hopefulness, engage their need to collaborate, be an incentive to utilize their natural competency and compassion...show them ways they can connect, reach out, weave themselves into the web of relationships that is called community. . -Dawna Markova.

A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm. -Bill Vaughan.

We are apt to forget that children watch examples better than they listen to preaching. -Roy L. Smith.

For only as we ourselves, as adults, actually move and have our being in the state of love, can we be appropriate models and guides for our children. What we are teaches the child far more than what we say, so we must be what we want our children to become. from Teaching Children to Love, introduction. -Joseph Chilton Pearce.

Human beings are the only creatures on earth that allow their children to come back home. -Bill Cosby.