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Abigail Van Buren
If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.
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Andrew Carnegie
Give me the life of the boy whose mother is nurse, seamstress, washerwoman, cook, teacher, angel, and saint, all in one, and whose father is guide, exemplar, and friend. No servants to come between. These are the boys who are born to the best fortune.
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Author Unknown
Children are natural mimics who act like their parents despite every effort to teach them good manners.
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Author Unknown
The trouble with being a parent is that by the time you are experienced, you are unemployed.
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Author Unknown
In bringing up children, spend on them half as much money and twice as much time.
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Bette Davis
If you have never been hated by your child you have never been a parent.
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Bill Cosby
Always end the name of your child with a vowel, so that when you yell, the name will carry.
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Bill Cosby
Parents are not interested in justice; they are interested in quiet.
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Bill Cosby, Fatherhood, 1986
No matter how calmly you try to referee, parenting will eventually produce bizarre behavior, and I'm not talking about the kids.
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Bill Cosby, Fatherhood, 1986
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.
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Bill Dodds
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.
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Billy Cosby
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.
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Bruce Lansky
Parenthood is a lot easier to get into than out of.
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Buddy Hackett
As a child my family's menu consisted of two choices: take it, or leave it.
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Charles Barkley
I don't believe professional athletes should be role models. I believe parents should be role models.... It's not like it was when I was growing up. My mom and my grandmother told me how it was going to be. If I didn't like it, they said, Don't let the door hit you in the ass on your way out. Parents have to take better control.
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