Alternative To Spanking

Thank God kids never mean well. - Lily Tomlin

Success is the child of audacity. - Benjamin Disraeli

Adults are just outdated children. - Dr. Seuss

Inspiration is remembering the future. - Unknown

A mother understands what a child does not say. - Jewish Proverb

The worst children are always somebody else's. - Unknown

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life. - Robertson Davies

We must teach our children to dream with their eyes open. - Harry Edwards

Our children are only as brilliant as we allow them to be. - Eric Micha'el Leventhal

What a morning - fresh as if issued to children on a beach. - Virginia Woolf

Kids are life's only guaranteed bona fide upside surprise. - Jack Nicholson

I look in the mirror through the eyes of the child that was me. - Judy Collins

As long as you know men are like children, you know everything. - Coco Chanel

When I was a child, nobody died; but now it happens all the time. - Unknown

Every child needs a father. Even if he turns out to be Darth Vader. - Jackson Radcliffe

Children see things very well sometimes - and idealists even better. - Lorraine Hansbury

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. - Thomas Edison

It is spring again. The earth is like a child that knows poems by heart. - Rainer M. Rilke

If you want your children to listen, try talking softly to someone else. - Ann Landers

Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives. - Maya Angelou

Four very powerful words to say to your child: "I believe in you." - Kevin Heath

Nothing's as mean as giving a little child something useful for Christmas. - Kin Hubbard

There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Enthusiasm is excitement with inspiration, motivation, and a pinch of creativity. - Bo Bennett

All kids need is a little help, a little hope, and somebody who believes in them. - Earvin "Magic" Johnson

The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother. - Henry Ward Beecher

We worry about what a child will become tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today. - Stacia Tauscher

Children are not a distraction for more important work. They are the most important work. - C S Lewis

I want to have a bunch of kids so I can open a factory and have free labor. Beat that, China! - Jarod Kintz

I just want to make sure when I have kids, I can spend time with them. That's the whole point. - Mark Zuckerberg

One in four kids have either pre-diabetes or diabetes - what I like to call diabesity. How did this happen? - Mark Hyman

There are three ways to get something done: do it yourself, employ someone, or forbid your children to do it. - Mona Crane

Inspiration comes unawares, from unaccountable sources that have nothing to do with planning or intelligence. - Maurice Chevalier

Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. - Ken Dodd

My kids always perceived the bathroom as a place where you wait it out until all the groceries are unloaded from the car. - Erma Bombeck

Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them. - Antoine de Saint-Expurey

If you want your kids to listen to you, don't yell at them. Whisper. Make them lean in. My kids taught me that. I do it with adults now. - Mario Batali

Education commences on the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character. - Hosea Ballou

In a big family the first child is kind of like the first pancake. If it's not perfect, that's okay, there are a lot more coming along. - Antonin Scalia

Most of what we object to as misconduct in children is a natural rebellion against the intrusion of an unimaginative adult despotism in their lives. - Floyd Dell