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\n\t"You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you. \n\t"How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it." \n\t"Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter. They increase the cares of life, but they mitigate the remembrance of death." \n\t"By trying to make things easier for their children parents can make things much harder for them." \n\t"It is paradoxical that many educators and parents still differentiate between a time for learning and a time for play without seeing the vital connection between them." \n\tThe First Step<\/strong><\/p>\n \t"How many thousands of miles away from me \n\t"If you can keep your head when all about you \tIf you can dream — and not make dreams your master; \tIf you can make one heap of all your winnings \tIf you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, \n\t"Let early education be a sort of amusement, you will then better be able to find out the natural bent of the child." \n\t"The best inheritance a parent can give to his children is a few minutes of their time each day." \n\t"Parents can tell but never teach, unless they practice what they preach." \n\t"What a child doesn't receive he can seldom later give." \n\t"Your children need your presence more than your presents." \n\t"The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother." \n\t"If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them, and half as much money." \n\t"Children today are tyrants.They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." \n\t"Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them." \t"It sometimes happens, even in the best of families, that a baby is born. This is not necessarily cause for alarm. The important thing is to keep your wits about you and borrow some money." \n\t"… that's the wonderful thing about babies. They love you." \n\t"There is only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it." \n\t"Bitter are the tears of a child: Sweeten them. \n\t"The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom." \n\t'The best way to keep children home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant—and to let the air out of the tires." \n\t"The bravest battle that ever was fought \n\t"A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials, heavy and sudden, fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends who rejoice with us in our sunshine, desert us; when troubles thicken around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts." \n\t"If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do well matters very much." \t"Your children are always your "babies" even if they have gray hair." \n\t"All kids are gifted; some just open their packages earlier than others." \n\t27<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" < "You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you. For Life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday. You are the bows from which your children, as living arrows, are sent forth." – … Continue reading
\n\tFor Life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.
\n\tYou are the bows from which your children, as living arrows, are sent forth."
\n\t– Kahlil Gibran
\n\tThe Prophet, 1923
\n\t(1883-1931)<\/strong><\/p>\n
\n\t– Alexandre Dumas<\/strong><\/p>\n
\n\t– Francis Bacon
\n\t Essays<\/strong><\/p>\n
\n\t– Mardy Grothe
\n\tpsychologist and author
\n\t(1942- )<\/strong><\/p>\n
\n\t– Leo Buscaglia
\n\t author
\n\t (1924-1998)<\/strong><\/p>\n
\n\tLives my childhood wife?
\n\tShe is on the Pacific Ocean, I am on the Atlantic Ocean.
\n\tWe are a whole country apart,
\n\tBut we will be together again, sometime, in some year.
\n\tAnd even though we are so very, very far apart,
\n\tWe will stay married to each other.
\n\tI will be friends with other girls, and
\n\tShe will be friends with other boys.
\n\tThat is important for children.
\n\tBut I just hope that she is not picking up a shoe with another boy.
\n\tPicking up a shoe is the very first step
\n\tIn "tying the knot" you know."
\n\t– Mattie J.T. Stepanek
\n\t(1990-2004)<\/strong> <\/p>\n
\n\tAre losing theirs and blaming it on you;
\n\tIf you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
\n\tBut make allowance for their doubting too;
\n\tIf you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
\n\tOr, being lied about, don't deal in lies,
\n\tOr, being hated, don't give way to hating,
\n\tAnd yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise; <\/p>\n
\n\tIf you can think — and not make thoughts your aim;
\n\tIf you can meet with triumph and disaster
\n\tAnd treat those two imposters just the same;
\n\tIf you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
\n\tTwisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
\n\tOr watch the things you gave your life to broken,
\n\tAnd stoop and build 'em up with wornout tools; <\/p>\n
\n\tAnd risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
\n\tAnd lose, and start again at your beginnings
\n\tAnd never breathe a word about your loss;
\n\tIf you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
\n\tTo serve your turn long after they are gone,
\n\tAnd so hold on when there is nothing in you
\n\tExcept the Will which says to them: "Hold on!"; <\/p>\n
\n\tOr walk with kings — nor lose the common touch;
\n\tIf neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
\n\tIf all men count with you, but none too much;
\n\tIf you can fill the unforgiving minute
\n\tWith sixty seconds' worth of distance run —
\n\tYours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
\n\tAnd — which is more — you'll be a Man my son!"
\n\t– Rudyard Kipling<\/strong><\/p>\n
\n\t– Plato
\n\tphilosopher
\n\t(427-347 BCE)<\/strong><\/p>\n
\n\tM. Grundler<\/strong><\/p>\n
\n\t– Arnold Glasow<\/strong><\/p>\n
\n\t– P.D. James
\n\t writer
\n\t (1920- )<\/strong><\/p>\n
\n\t– Jesse Jackson
\n\tclergyman and civil rights leader
\n\t(1941- )<\/strong><\/p>\n
\n\t– Theodore M. Hesburgh
\n\t educator
\n\t (1917- )<\/strong><\/p>\n
\n\t– Abigail Van Buren
\n\t advice columnist
\n\t (1918- )<\/strong><\/p>\n
\n\t– Socrates
\n\t(470-399 B.C.)<\/strong><\/p>\n
\n\t– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
\n\tpoet, dramatist, novelist, and philosopher
\n\t(1749-1832)<\/strong><\/p>\n
\n\t– Elinor Goulding Smith
\n\t(1917-1978) <\/strong><\/p>\n
\n\t– Marilyn French
\n\tAmerican writer
\n\t(1929- )<\/strong><\/p>\n
\n\t– Chinese Proverb<\/strong><\/p>\n
\n\tDeep are the thoughts of a child: Quiet them.
\n\tSharp is the grief of a child: Take it from him.
\n\tSoft is the heart of a child: Do not harden it."
\n\t– Pamela Glenconner
\n\t(1871-1928) <\/strong><\/p>\n
\n\t– Henry Ward Beecher
\n\tAmerican cleric
\n\t(1813-1887) <\/strong><\/p>\n
\n\t-Dorothy Parker
\n\tAmerican writer
\n\t(1893-1967) <\/strong><\/p>\n
\n\tShall I tell you where and when?
\n\tOn the maps of the world you will find it not
\n\tIt was fought by the mothers of men."
\n\t– Joaquin Miller
\n\tAmerican poet
\n\t(1839-1913) <\/strong><\/p>\n
\n\t-Washington Irving
\n\tAmerican writer
\n\t(1783-1959) <\/strong><\/p>\n
\n\t– Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
\n\tAmerican first lady
\n\t(1929-1994)<\/strong><\/p>\n
\n\t– Janet Leigh
\n\tAmerican actress
\n\t(1927-2005) <\/strong><\/p>\n
\n\t– Michael Carr<\/strong><\/p>\n