Babysitting Kids

A child is a curly dimpled lunatic. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

A rich child often sits in a poor mother's lap. - Danish Proverb

My mom had a very difficult childhood. My childhood. - Cindy Marzahn

For when a child is born the mother also is born again. - Gilbert Parker

If a nation loses its storyteller, it loses its childhood. - Peter Handke

Children are one third of our population and all of our future. - Unknown

Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed. - Maria Montessori

Always kiss your children goodnight - even if they're already asleep. - H Jackson Brown, Jr.

I'd like to be the ideal mother, but I'm too busy raising my kids. - Unknown

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

I am married to Beatrice Salkeld, a painter. We have no children, except me. - Brendan Behan

Children are paparazzi. They take your picture when you don't want them to. - Jamie Lee Curtis

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

Grandchildren are God's rewards to grandparents for not shooting their children. - Unknown

Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book. - Cicero

Anyone who thinks the art of conversation is dead ought to tell a child to go to bed. - Robert Gallagher

The affection you get back from children is sixpence given as change for a sovereign. - Edith Nesbit

Children are a great comfort in your old age, and they help you reach it faster, too. - Lionel Kauffman

Children need the freedom and time to play. Play is not a luxury. Play is a necessity. - Kay R. Jamison

I refuse to admit that I am more than 52, even if that makes my children illegitimate. - Nancy Astor

When I was a child, I wanted to raise horses in Wyoming or be a cabin boy on a pirate ship. - Sadie Jones

Live so that when your children think of fairness, caring, and integrity, they think of you. - H. Jackson Brown

A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after. - Peter DeVries

May my children follow their own intuition to discover true empowerment in the answers they seek. - Unknown

There are only two things a child will share willingly - communicable diseases and his mother's age. - Benjamin Spock

When my kids become wild and unruly, I use a nice, safe playpen. When they're finished, I climb out. - Erma Bombeck

The men who have furnished me with my greatest inspiration have not been men of wealth, but men of deeds. - James C Penney

I've enjoyed many camping holidays with my sister and her children, but we're pretty posh campers. - Erin O'Connor

The best thing I've ever done? Well, I've created four beautiful children. You mean, other than that? - Donald Trump

The only way we can ever teach a child to say "I'm sorry" is for him to hear it from our lips first. - Kevin Leman

Spare the rod and spoil the child - that is true. But, beside the rod, keep an apple to give him when he has done well. - Martin Luther

Children despise their parents until the age of forty, when they suddenly become just like them, thus preserving the system. - Quentin Crewe

Our society is walking through a maze of cultural land mines and the heaviest price is exacted as we send our children on ahead. - Ravi Zacharias

Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important. - Bill Gates

Forgiveness is that subtle thread that binds both love and friendship. Without forgiveness, you may not even have a child one day. - George Foreman

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

Forgiveness is the answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is made clean again. - Dag Hammarskjold

Rather than pushing children to think like adults, we might do better to remember that they are great learners and to try harder to be more like them. - Seymour Papert