Happy is he that is happy in his children.  -T. Fuller

The most wonderful sound our ears can hear is the sound of a newborn baby.    -Anonymous

 

       People who say they sleep like a  baby usually don't have one.                                           -L.J. Burke

 

A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary.            -D.C. Fisher

 

That energy which makes a child hard to manage is the energy which afterward makes him a manager of life.     -H.W. Beecher

Nature makes boys and girls lovely to look upon so they can be tolerated until they acquire some sense.
-W.L. Phelps

           Praise your children openly, reprehend them secretly.    -W. Cecil

Parents need to fill a child's bucket of self-esteem so high that the rest of the world can't poke enough holes to drain it dry.      -Alvin Price

Insanity is hereditary; you can get it from your children.
-S. Levenson

                             When a child is allowed to do absolutely as he pleases, it will not be long until  nothing pleases him.   -Anonymous

 

A mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after.       -P. DeVries

Raising children is like making biscuits:  it is as easy to raise a big batch as one, while you have your hands in the dough.  -E.W. Howe

             
Even when freshly washed and relieved of all obvious confections, children tend to be sticky.
-F. Lebowitz

                 A BABY IS...someone just the size of a hug.   -Anonymous

A baby is...a rose with all its sweetest leaves yet folded. -Lord Byron

Two things it is important to give our children - the first is roots; the other, wings.

-Anonymous

                Discipline doesn't break a child's spirit  half as often as the lack of it breaks a parents heart.   -Anonymous

Children are a great comfort in your old age - and they help you reach it faster, too.           -L. Kaufman

Parents spend half their time wondering how their children will turn out, and the other half wondering when they'll turn in.
-Anonymous

The Lord says, "As surely as I live, your children will be like jewels.  You will be as proud of them as a bride is of her jewels."
-Isa 49:18 NCV

The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.     -T.M. Hesburg

       

           Discipline your son in his early years while there is  still hope.  If you don't you will ruin his life.   -Prov 19:18

It is better to bind your children to you by a feeling of respect and by gentleness, than by fear.
-Terence

 

                Remember, when your child has a tantrum, don't have one of your own.    -Dr. J. Kuriansky

 

A baby is the greatest gift that life could send you...    -Anonymous (submitted by Jennifer Denny)

 

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