If you would have your son to walk honourably through the world, you must not attempt to clear the stones from his path, but teach him to walk firmly over them — not insist upon leading him by the hand, but let him learn to go alone.
If you would have a boy to despise his mother, let her keep him at home, and spend her life in petting him up, and slaving to indulge his follies and caprices.
I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift would be curiosity.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Education
The joys of parents are secret; and so are their griefs and fears. They cannot utter the one; nor they will not utter the other.
The best brought-up children are those who have seen their parents as they are. Hypocrisy is not the parent's first duty.
— George Bernard Shaw
Family
If parents would only realize how they bore their children!
— George Bernard Shaw
Family
Don't tell your kids you had an easy birth or they won't respect you. For years I used to wake up my daughter and say, 'Melissa, you ripped me to shreds. Now go back to sleep.'
We can't form our children on our own concepts; we must take them and love them as God gives them to us.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Family
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