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  

Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man. —Rabindranath Tagore

There’s nothing that can help you understand your beliefs more than trying to explain them to an inquisitive child. —Frank A. Clark

  There are no seven wonders of the world in the eyes of a child. There are seven million. —Walt Streightiff

Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body. —Elizabeth Stone

Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children, and no theories. —John Wilmot  

To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself. —Josh Billings  

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

Don’t worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you. —Robert Fulghum

If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves. —C.G. Jung  

Children have more need of models than of critics. —Carolyn Coats  

Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children. —Charles R. Swindoll

What a child doesn’t receive he can seldom later give.—P.D. James

If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others. —Haim Ginott  

In bringing up children, spend on them half as much money and twice as much time. —Author unknown  

What’s done to children, they will do to society. —Karl Menninger  

You have a lifetime to work, but children are only young once. —Polish proverb

Kids spell love T-I-M-E. —John Crudele  

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. —Frank Pittman  

If I Had My Child to Raise Over Again

If I had my child to raise all over again,

I’d build self-esteem first, and the house later.

I’d finger-paint more, and point the finger less.

I would do less correcting and more connecting.

I’d take my eyes off my watch, and watch with my eyes.

I’d take more hikes and fly more kites.

I’d stop playing serious, and seriously play.

I would run through more fields and gaze at more stars.

I’d do more hugging and less tugging.

—Diane Loomans