Things every parent should know. (But shouldn't have to learn the hard way.)

• We worry about what a child will become tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today. 
• –Stacia Tauscher

• You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.
•  'Franklin P. Jones

• Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.
• 'Rabindranath Tagore

• There's nothing that can help you understand your beliefs more than trying to explain them to an inquisitive child.
•  ' Frank A. Clark

• There are no seven wonders of the world in the eyes of a child. There are seven million.
•  'WaltStreightiff

• Makinga decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.
•  ' Elizabeth Stone

• To bring up a child in the way that we should go, travel that way yourself. 
• 'Josh Billings

• It's not only children who grow. Parents do too. As much as we watch to see what our children do with their lives, they are watching us to see what we do with ours. I can't tell my children to reach for the sun. All I can do is reach for it myself.
•  ' Joyce Maynard
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• Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry they are always watching you.
•  ' Robert Fulghum

• If there is anything that we wish to change in the child we should first examine it and see whether it is not some thing that we could better change in ourselves. 'C.G. Jung

• Children have more need of models than critics. 
• ' Carolyn Coats

• Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.
•  'Charles R. Swindoll

• What a child doesn't receive he can seldom later give
• .'P.D. James

• If you have your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others.        
•  ' HaimGinott

• In bringing up children, spend on them half as much money & twice as much time.
•  ' Author unknown

• What's done to children, they will do to society. 
• ' Karl Menniger

• You have a lifetime to work, but children are only young once.
•  ' Polishproverb.

• Kids spell love T-I-M-E.
•  ' John Crudele

• The guys who fear becoming father's don't understand that fathering is not something perfect men do, but something that perfects the man. The endproducts of child raising is not the child but the parent.     
•  ' Frank Pittman