Things Every Parent Should

1. Things Every Parent Should KNOW (But shouldn't Have To Learn The Hard Way.)

2. 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

3. There’s nothing that can help you understand your beliefs more than trying to explain them to an inquisitive child. – Frank A. Clark Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man. –Rabindranath Tagore

4. There are no seven wonders of the world in the eyes of a child. There are seven million. –Walt Streightiff To bring up a child in the way that we should go, travel that way yourself. – Josh Billings

5. 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

6. Don’t worry that children never listen to you; worry they are always watching you. – Robert Fulghum What a child doesn’t receive he can seldom later give. –P.D. James

7. Children have more need of models than critics. – Carolyn Coats If you have your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others. – Haim Ginott

8. Kids spell love T-I-M-E. – John Crudele In bringing up children, spend on them half as much money and twice as much time. – Author unknown

9. What’s done to children, they will do to society. – Karl Menniger You have a lifetime to work, but children are only young once. – Polish proverb.

10. 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 products of child raising is not the child but the parent. – Frank Pittman