Family Man
1. Children are not pets.
2. The life they actually live and the life you perceive them to be living is not the same life.
3. Don't take what your children do too personally.
4. Don't keep score cards on them - a short memory is useful.
5. Dirt and mess are a breeding ground for well-being.
6. Stay out of their rooms after puberty.
7. Don't worry that they never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.
8. Learn from them; they have much to teach you.
9. Love them long; let them go early.
Finally. You will never really know what kind of parent you were or if you did it right or wrong. Never. And you will worry about this and them as long as you live. But when your children have children and you watch them do what they do, you will have part of an answer.
Robert Fulghum
Family Man
Family
Vengeance is living long enough to be a problem to your kids.
The mother of three notoriously unruly youngsters was asked whether or not she'd have children if she had it to do over again. 'Sure,' she replied, 'but not the same ones.'
Your child has many hidden treasures that, once uncovered, polished, and held up to the light of encouragement, will lead them to success. [Eric Bucher]
On the day that my daughter was born I was too naive to realize that I was embarking on the most important assignment of my life and that if I failed as a father, all my other achievements would somehow be diminished. [Richard Exley]
Children can withstand a lot of pressure and trial from the outside if the home inside is held steady by parents whose character is steady. [Stuart Briscoe]
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother. [Theodore M. Hesburgh]
Vengeance is living long enough to be a problem to your kids.
The mother of three notoriously unruly youngsters was asked whether or not she'd have children if she had it to do over again. 'Sure,' she replied, 'but not the same ones.'
Your child has many hidden treasures that, once uncovered, polished, and held up to the light of encouragement, will lead them to success. [Eric Bucher]
On the day that my daughter was born I was too naive to realize that I was embarking on the most important assignment of my life and that if I failed as a father, all my other achievements would somehow be diminished. [Richard Exley]
Children can withstand a lot of pressure and trial from the outside if the home inside is held steady by parents whose character is steady. [Stuart Briscoe]
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother. [Theodore M. Hesburgh]
God knows that a mother needs fortitude and courage and tolerance and flexibility and patience and firmness and nearly every other brave aspect of the human soul. But because I happen to be a parent of almost fiercely maternal nature, I praise casualness . It seems to me the rarest of virtues. It is useful enough when children are small. It is important to the point of necessity when they are adolescents.
Phyllis McGinley
Phyllis McGinley
"Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses."
--Francis Bacon
"He knows little who tells his wife all he knows."
--Thomas Fuller
"A wife is a gift bestowed upon man to reconcile him to the loss of paradise."
--Johann Wolfgang Von Goetke
"I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well."
--Oliver Goldsmith
"Of all the home remedies, a good wife is best."
--Kin Hubbard
"Heaven will be no heaven to me if I do not meet my wife there."
--Andrew Jackson
"She is but half a wife that is not, nor is capable of being, a friend."
--William Penn
"All married women are not wives."
--Japanese Proverb
"A wife is essential to great longevity; she is the receptacle of half a man's cares, and two-thirds of his ill-humor."
--Charles Reade
"Teacher, tender comrade, wife, A fellow-farer true through life."
--Robert Louis Stevenson
--Francis Bacon
"He knows little who tells his wife all he knows."
--Thomas Fuller
"A wife is a gift bestowed upon man to reconcile him to the loss of paradise."
--Johann Wolfgang Von Goetke
"I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well."
--Oliver Goldsmith
"Of all the home remedies, a good wife is best."
--Kin Hubbard
"Heaven will be no heaven to me if I do not meet my wife there."
--Andrew Jackson
"She is but half a wife that is not, nor is capable of being, a friend."
--William Penn
"All married women are not wives."
--Japanese Proverb
"A wife is essential to great longevity; she is the receptacle of half a man's cares, and two-thirds of his ill-humor."
--Charles Reade
"Teacher, tender comrade, wife, A fellow-farer true through life."
--Robert Louis Stevenson