A lot of parents pack up their troubles and send them off to summer camp. (Quote by - Raymond Duncan)

You have a lifetime to work, but children are only young once. (Quote by - Polish Proverb)

It behooves a father to be blameless if he expects his child to be. (Quote by - Homer)

Children are a great comfort in your old age - and they help you reach it faster, too. (Quote by - Lionel Kauffman)

A parent who has never apologized to his children is a monster. If he's always apologizing, his children are monsters. (Quote by - Mignon McLaughlin)

The guys who fear becoming fathers don't understand that fathering is not something perfect men do, but something that perfects the man. The end product of child raising is not the child but the parent. (Quote by - Frank Pittman)

Although there are many trial marriages... there is no such thing as a trial child. (Quote by - Gail Sheehy)

Parenthood: That state of being better chaperoned than you were before marriage. (Quote by - Marcelene Cox)

Insanity is hereditary - you get it from your kids. (Quote by - Sam Levenson)

A child enters your home and for the next twenty years makes so much noise you can hardly stand it. The child departs, leaving the house so silent you think you are going mad. (Quote by - John Andrew Holmes)

Hot dogs always seem better out than at home; so do French-fried potatoes; so do your children. (Quote by - Mignon McLaughlin)

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

Instant availability without continuous presence is probably the best role a mother can play. (Quote by - Lotte Bailyn)

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. (Quote by - Joyce Maynard)

Your children tell you casually years later what it would have killed you with worry to know at the time. (Quote by - Mignon McLaughlin)

A young lady is a female child who has just done something dreadful. (Quote by - Judith Martin)

Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you. (Quote by - Robert Fulghum)

The problem with children is that you have to put up with their parents. (Quote by - Charles DeLint)

Parenthood is the passing of a baton, followed by a lifelong disagreement as to who dropped it. (Quote by - Robert Brault)

Your children need your presence more than your presents. (Quote by - Jesse Jackson)

In spite of the seven thousand books of expert advice, the right way to discipline a child is still a mystery to most fathers and... mothers. Only your grandmother and Ghengis Khan know how to do it. (Quote by - Billy Cosby)

My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it. (Quote by - Quentin Crisp)

If your parents didn't have any children, there's a good chance that you won't have any. (Quote by - Clarence Day)

It would seem that something which means poverty, disorder and violence every single day should be avoided entirely, but the desire to beget children is a natural urge. (Quote by - Phyllis Diller)

If your kids are giving you a headache, follow the directions on the aspirin bottle, especially the part that says "keep away from children." (Quote by - Susan Savannah)