A father is generally happier to have his child look like him than act like him. It ought to be the other way around.
Most fathers try to bring up their sons to be as good a man as they meant to be .
It’s hard to train a child in a way the parents don’t go themselves.
Parents wonder why the streams are bitter when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.
Train up a child in the way he should go; then go that way thyself.
Just about the time you think your problems are all behind you, you get to be a grandparent.
The father who does not teach his son his duties is equally guilty with the son who neglects them.
Our children are the only possessions we can take to heaven.
A child’s life is really determined by just how hard his mother and father work at being parents.
If my parents were so awful, how come I am so wonderful?
Heredity is something you believe in when your child’s report card is all A’s.
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
Some are so anxious to give their children what they didn’t have that they have neglected to give them what they had.
Some parents are not on “spanking terms” with their children.
If fathers took their sons fishing when they were young, they wouldn’t have to go hunting for them when they are older.
A young girl’s view of parents: “The trouble with parents is they are so old when we get them, it’s hard to change their habits.”
Live so that your son, when people tell him that he reminds them of you, will stick out his chest—not his tongue.
People who handle other people’s money are required to account for every cent. Are children less valuable?
Grandparent—one of those things that is “so simple a child can operate.”
Very frequently rich parents are poor parents.
The trouble will being a parent is that by the time we’re experienced, we’re unemployed.
Parents can tell but never teach, until they practice what they preach.
It is a tragedy of our time that many become parents before they cease being children.
Parents should always remember that some day their children will follow their example instead of their advice.
The accent’s on youth, but the stress is on parents.
When dad says he wants me to have everything he didn’t have when he was a kid, he means an A on my report card.
Parents who are afraid to put their foot down usually have children who step on their toes.
Some people can trace their ancestry back three hundred years, but they cannot tell where their children were last night.