Children need to be enjoyed and valued, not managed.

– Daniel Siegel

Come, let us put our minds together to see what kind of lives we can create for our children.

– Chief Sitting Bull

Rest assured that, generally speaking, others are acting in exactly the same manner that you would under exactly the same circumstances. Hence, be kind, understanding, empathetic, compassionate, and loving.

– Gary W. Fenchuk

The most precious gift we can offer others is our presence. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers.

– Thich Nhat Hanh

What game do you want to play: “Who’s right” or “Let’s make life more wonderful”?

– Marshall B. Rosenberg, Ph.D.

If I am in a position to punish, chances are very good that I am also in a position to teach. Today I reduce the odds that punishment may be necessary by making the effort to teach.

– Karen Jandorf

You don't really understand human nature unless you know why a child on a merry-go-round will wave at his parents every time around - and why his parents will always wave back.

– William D. Tammeus

Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.

– Elizabeth Stone

Always kiss your children goodnight - even if they're already asleep.

– H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

– Jesse Jackson

It's not only children who grow. Parents do too. As much as we watch to see what our children do with their lives, they are watching us to see what we do with ours. I can't tell my children to reach for the sun. All I can do is reach for it, myself.

– Joyce Maynard

Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.

– Robert Fulghum

If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.

– Carl Jung

Children have more need of models than of critics.

– Carolyn Coats

You will always be your child's favorite toy.

– Vicki Lansky

What a child doesn't receive he can seldom later give.

– P.D. James

Kids spell love T-I-M-E.

– John Crudele

As parents, we guide by our unspoken example. It is only when we're talking to them that our kids aren't listening.

– Robert Brault

The hardest part of raising a child is teaching them to ride bicycles. A shaky child on a bicycle for the first time needs both support and freedom. The realization that this is what the child will always need can hit hard.

– Sloan Wilson

If I had my child to raise all over again,
I'd build self-esteem first, and the house later.
I'd finger-paint more, and point the finger less.
I would do less correcting and more connecting.
I'd take my eyes off my watch, and watch with my eyes.
I'd take more hikes and fly more kites.
I'd stop playing serious, and seriously play.
I would run through more fields and gaze at more stars.
I'd do more hugging and less tugging.

– Diane Loomans

When you teach your son, you teach your son's son.

– The Talmud

You have a lifetime to work, but children are only young once.

– Polish Proverb

Love is giving someone your undivided attention.

– Unknown

The Hebrew word for parents is horim, and it comes from the same root as moreh, teacher. The parent is, and remains, the first and most important teacher that the child will have.

– Rabbi Kassel Abelson

Parents are often so busy with the physical rearing of children that they miss the glory of parenthood, just as the grandeur of the trees is lost when raking leaves.

– Marcelene Cox

One hundred years from now,
It won't matter what car I drove,
What kind of house I lived in,
How much I had in my bank account,
Nor what my clothes looked like,
But, the world may be a little better
Because I was important in the life of a child.

– Unknown

When a parent decides to act like one of the children and begins to scream and yell at the child, all opportunity for teaching is lost.

– Unknown

“Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible — the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family.”

– Virginia Satir

Children learn to smile from their parents.

– Shinichi Suzuki

“The highest measure of a civilization lies in how it cares for its children.”

– Margaret Mead

"Encouragement is to children what water is to plants"

– Rudolph Dreikurs

"Never do for a child what he can do for himself"

– Rudolph Dreikurs

"Where did we ever get the crazy idea that in order for kids to DO better we need to make them FEEL worse? Kids DO better when they FEEL better"

– Jane Nelsen