Ma-ma does everything for the baby, who responds by saying Da-da first. (Quote by - Mignon McLaughlin)

Character is largely caught, and the father and the home should be the great sources of character infection. (Quote by - Frank H. Cheley)

Setting a good example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age. (Quote by - William Feather)

The one thing children wear out faster than shoes is parents. (Quote by - John J. Plomp)

There are two lasting bequests we can give our children. One is roots. The other is wings. (Quote by - Hodding Carter, Jr.)

What a child doesn't receive he can seldom later give. (Quote by - P.D. James)

You don't really understand human nature unless you know why a child on a merry-go-round will wave at his parents every time around - and why his parents will always wave back. (Quote by - William D. Tammeus)

No matter how calmly you try to referee, parenting will eventually produce bizarre behavior, and I'm not talking about the kids. (Quote by - Bill Cosby)

The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother. (Quote by - Theodore M. Hesburgh)

Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)

Humans are the only animals that have children on purpose with the exception of guppies, who like to eat theirs. (Quote by - P.J. O'Rourke)

Diogenes struck the father when the son swore. (Quote by - Robert Burton)

There may be some doubt as to who are the best people to have charge of children, but there can be no doubt that parents are the worst. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)

How many hopes and fears, how many ardent wishes and anxious apprehensions are twisted together in the threads that connect the parent with the child! (Quote by - Samuel Griswold Goodrich)

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

How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted. (Quote by - Walter Scott)

Raising children is like making biscuits: it is as easy to raise a big batch as one, while you have your hands in the dough. (Quote by - E.W. Howe)

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)

Labor Day is a glorious holiday because your child will be going back to school the next day. It would have been called Independence Day, but that name was already taken. (Quote by - Bill Dodds)

What's done to children, they will do to society. (Quote by - Karl Menninger)

Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy. (Quote by - Robert A. Heinlein)

Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children. (Quote by - Charles R. Swindoll)

Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying. (Quote by - Fran Lebowitz)

If your children spend most of their time in other people's houses, you're lucky; if they all congregate at your house, you're blessed. (Quote by - Mignon McLaughlin)

Being a child at home alone in the summer is a high-risk occupation. If you call your mother at work thirteen times an hour, she can hurt you. (Quote by - Erma Bombeck)