#parenting

Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore. ↗

— Ogden Nash

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To me luxury is to be at home with my daughter, and the occasional massage doesn't hurt. ↗

— Olivia Newton-John

#daughter #home #hurt #luxury #massage

Don't reward bad behavior. It is one of the first rules of parenting. During the financial cataclysm of 2008, we said it differently. When we bailed out banks that had created their own misfortune, we called it a 'moral hazard,' because the bailout absolved the bank's bad acts and created an incentive for it to make the same bad loans again. ↗

— Eliot Spitzer

#again #bad #bailed #bailout #bank

What good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is usually best after all. ↗

— Benjamin Spock

#after #babies #best #doing #fathers

The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering. ↗

— Benjamin Spock

#child #parents #power #steering #supplies

Screaming at children over their grades, especially to the point of the child's tears, is child abuse, pure and simple. It's not funny and it's not good parenting. It is a crushing, scarring, disastrous experience for the child. It isn't the least bit funny. ↗

— Ben Stein

#bit #child #child abuse #children #crushing

Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist. ↗

— Michael Levine

#parenting

We are apt to forget that children watch examples better than they listen to preaching. ↗

— Roy L. Smith

#apt #better #children #examples #forget

Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father. ↗

— Gloria Steinem

#american #american children #children #father #little

My children are the reason I laugh, smile and want to get up every morning. ↗

— Gena Lee Nolin

#children #every #get #i #laugh