Raising children should mean helping them to become what they already are in God's eyes. Eberhard Arnold

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Raising children is an uncertain thing; success is reached only after a life of battle and worry. Democritus

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Raising a child, whether or not it is yours, is like Nautilus of the heart and soul. Anne Lamott

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Raising a child is the only relationship you have where if you do it right, it will end in separation. Naomi Foner Gyllenhaal

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The most important thing that parents can teach their children is how to get along without them. Frank A. Clark

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Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore. Ogden Nash

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Raising children changes everything. It's a complete cliché to say that, but it's really true. Christopher Gorham

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Training a puppy is like raising a child. Every single interaction is a training opportunity. Ian Dunbar

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No one's raising children any more. To love a child, you've got to work for it. You have to change its diapers and feed it at night! Lauren Hutton

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Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves. Ernest Dimnet

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Raising children is a creative endeavor, an art rather than a science. Bruno Bettelheim

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You know the only people who are always sure about the proper way to raise children? Those who've never had any. Bill Cosby

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Raising children is part joy and part guerrilla warfare. Ed Asner

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Raising a child on a steady diet of "I am the center of the universe" is generally quite harmful. Your child is not the center of the universe and never will be. Ian Grant

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You don't raise heroes, you raise sons. And if you treat them like sons, they'll turn out to be heroes if it's just in your own eyes. Walter M. Schirra Sr.

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One challenge to parents is how to raise loving, trusting children while at the same time instilling a sense of healthy wariness of strangers. Fred Rogers

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Being a parent is a complex thing. It involves not only trying to feel what our children are feeling and trying to know just how much to do to help them with what they cannot yet do for themselves, but also trying to know how much not to do. We must also learn to recognize our children's real capacities and respect their need to do things for themselves. Fred Rogers

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There's a mystery in raising children: As our children grow and develop their unique talents, we can't control every aspect of their lives. For example, we can offer children music lessons and do all we can to encourage them to appreciate music, but if making music isn't their way of expressing themselves, we have to trust they'll find their own ways. Fred Rogers

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There is no escaping the fact that a minimum amount of human understanding is needed for raising children. Most mothers naturally have that sensitivity, except when they follow advice that goes against their good intuitions. Alfred Henry

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I think that the best thing we can do for our children is to allow them to do things for themselves, allow them to be strong, allow them to experience life on their own terms, allow them to take the subway...let them be better people, let them believe more in themselves. C. JoyBell C.

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To nourish children and raise them against odds is any time, any place, more valuable than to fix bolts in cars or design nuclear weapons. Marilyn French

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We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up. Phyllis Diller

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Being constantly with children was like wearing a pair of shoes that were expensive and too small. She couldn't bear to throw them out, but they gave her blisters. Beryl Bainbridge

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Raising teenagers is like nailing Jell-O to the wall. Barbara Johnson

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I had three children and that's a lot like making a movie. There are a lot of the same worries. Will it have legs? Will it go wide? How will it do domestically and what if it goes foreign? Meryl Streep

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I take a very practical view of raising children. I put a sign in each of their rooms: "Checkout Time is 18 years." Erma Bombeck

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Before I was married, I had a hundred theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three children and no theories. John Wilmot

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Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy. Robert A. Heinlein

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One thing they never tell you about child raising is that for the rest of your life, at the drop of a hat, you are expected to know your child's name and how old he or she is. Erma Bombeck

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Madam, there's no such thing as a tough child—if you parboil them first for seven hours, they always come out tender. W. C. Fields

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