Who is not attracted by bright and pleasant children, to prattle, to creep, and to play with them?
Winning children (who appear so guileless) are children who have discovered how effective charm and modesty and a delicately calculated spontaneity are in winning what they want.
With children… it is a fact that most parents criticize children more than they laud or congratulate them. We tend to be quick to criticize, slow to praise. We should be careful to keep the praise and the expectations far ahead of the criticism.
You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.
You know children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers.
You may give them your love but not your thoughts. For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.
You save an old man and you save a unit; but save a boy, and you save a multiplication table.
You see much more of your children once they leave home.
You should study not only that you become a mother when your child is born, but also that you become a child.
Young people should be helped, sheltered, ignored, and clubbed of necessary.
Your children need your presence more than your presents.
Your children will see what you're all about by what you live rather than what you say.
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