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Wise parents offer criticism only when asked, and then minimally.
Sep 29, 2025
My upbringing is why I am the person I am today. I have very wise parents.
The best and most popular novelists do not, as a rule, have children in their books at all, and this is wise. Parents are about the only people who are interested in children, and they merely in their own ones.
The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.
Think long and hard about the way you invest your children's time. Time is treasure. And where your time investment is, there you will find the heart of a child. Invest the majority of his time in entertainment, and his heart will be turned to love of pleasure. Invest his time in peers rather then family, and his heart will be with the peers more than his family. There is a time and place for all good things in balance, but wise parents will steward the treasure of time, and in so doing, shepherd their children's hearts.
Wise parents know that fighting a teenager, like fighting a riptide, is inviting doom.
In the end, it's not what you do for your children but what you've taught them to do for themselves.
To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while.
To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while. Your children need your presence more than your presents.
If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others.
Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy.
Live so that when your children think of fairness, caring, and integrity, they think of you.
There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.
If I had my child to raise all over again,I'd finger paint more, and point the finger less.I'd do less correcting, and more connecting.I'd take my eyes off my watch, and watch with my eyes.I would care to know less, and know to care more.I'd take more hikes and fly more kites.I'd stop playing serious, and seriously play.I'd run through more fields, and gaze at more stars.I'd do more hugging, and less tugging.I would be firm less often, and affirm much more.I'd build self esteem first, and the house later.I'd teach less about the love of power, and more about the power of love.
Always kiss your children goodnight, even if they're already asleep.
The most important thing that parents can teach their children is how to get along without them.
Your children need your presence more than your presents.
My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.
Life affords no greater responsibility, no greater privilege, than the raising of the next generation
Your children will become what you are; so be what you want them to be
Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.
It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.
In diversity there is beauty and there is strength.
Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.
The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
A wise parent humors the desire for independent action, so as to become the friend and advisor when his absolute rule shall cease.
The best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.
If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.
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