If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders. (Quote by - Abigail Van Buren)

I am not allowed to sing, dance, laugh or wear short skirts. Having a teenage daughter is like living with the Taliban. (Quote by - Author Kathy Lette)

When my kids become wild and unruly, I use a nice, safe playpen. When they're finished, I climb out. (Quote by - Erma Bombeck)

I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home. (Quote by - Robert Orben)

The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother, and the most important thing a mother can do for her children is to love their father. (Quote by - Anonymous)

Even very young children need to be informed about dying. Explain the concept of death very carefully to your child. This will make threatening him with it much more effective. (Quote by - P. J. O'Rourke)

The art of mothering is to teach the art of living to children. (Quote by - Elain Heffner)

If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others. (Quote by - Haim Ginott)

There is no point in being grown up if you can't be childish sometimes. (Quote by - Dr. Who)

Babies haven't any hair; Old men's heads are just as bare; between the cradle and the grave lie a haircut and a shave. (Quote by - Samuel Hoffenstein)

Creativity, flexibility, tolerance and love are natural states of mind and our purpose is to nurture them to full blossom. (Quote by - Ronit Baras)

The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering. (Quote by - Benjamin Spock)

In spite of the six thousand manuals on child raising in the bookstores, child raising is still a dark continent and no one really knows anything. You just need a lot of love and luck- and, of course, courage. (Quote by - Bill Cosby)

There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience. (Quote by - Anatole Broyard)

The truth is that parents are not really interested in justice. They just want quiet. (Quote by - Bill Cosby)

It is better to bind your children to you by a feeling of respect and by gentleness, than by fear. (Quote by - Terence)

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

If you have never been hated by your child you have never been a parent. (Quote by - Bette Davis)

The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, and the second half by our children. (Quote by - Clarence Darrow)

Always end the name of your child with a vowel, so that when you yell the name will carry. (Quote by - Bill Cosby)

Kids learn integrity from us: Integrity is what we say, what we do, and what we say we do. (Quote by - Don Galer)

No one knows how children will turn out; a great tree often springs from a tender plant. (Quote by - Norwegian proverb)

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

To nourish children and raise them against the odds is, in any time, any place, more valuable than to fix bolts in cars or design nuclear weapons. (Quote by - Marilyn French)

To an adolescent, there is nothing in the world more embarrassing than a parent. (Quote by - Dave Barry)