From time to time I make an attempt to purge the many many MANY books I have that contain inspirational quotes -which have been an addiction of mine for as long as Ican remember. I am positive being addicted to inspiration is better than being addicted to crystal meth, but still it can get out of control and take up a lot of space. So for today's good deed, I am going to get rid of ONE flipbook taking up space in my office!
"It is difficult to give children a sense of security unless you have it yourself. If you have it, they catch it from you." William D. Menninger
"Give a little love to a child and you get a great deal back." John Ruskin
"We parents can often do more for our children by correcting our own faults than by trying to correct theirs." Anonymous
"A babe in a house is a wellspring of pleasure, a messenger of peace for innocence on earth , a link between angels and men." Martin F. Tupper
"We have been given a great treasure in the form of our children; let us attend to them with great care." John Chrysostom
"Children are likely to live up to what you believe of them." Lady Bird Johnson
"We never know the love of the parent until we become parents ourselves. When we first bend over the cradle of our own child, God throws back the temple door, and reveals to us the sacredness and mystery of a father's and mother's love to ourselves." Henry Ward Beecher
"In praising or loving a child, we love and praise not that which is , but that which we hope for." Goethe
"Our children are living messages we send to a time and place we will not see." Anonymous
"A mother understands what a child does not say." Anonymous
"It will be gone before you know it. The fingerprints on the wall appear higher and higher. Then they suddenly disappear." Dorothy Evslin
"An infallible way to make your child miserable is to satisfy all his demands" Anonymous
"Children cannot be made good by making them happy, but they can be made happy by making them good." E.J. Kiefer
"Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven." Henry Ward Beecher
"A young child, a fresh uncluttered mind, a world before him - to what treasures will you lead him?" Gladys Hunt
"There is in all this world no fount of deep, strong, deathless love, save that within a mother's heart." Felicia Hemans
"Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence." Plato
"Train your child in the way in which you know you should have gone yourself." Charles H. Spurgeon
"If you bend over backward for your children, you will eventually lose your balance." John Rosemond
"Children are a reward from the Lord." Psalm 127:3
"What is a home? It is the laugh of a baby, the song of a mother; the strength of a father. Warmth of living hearts, light from happy eyes, kindness, loyalty, comradeship. Where joy is shared and sorrow eased. Where even the tea kettle sings from happiness. That is home." Ernestine Schumann-Heink
"Level with your kids by being honest. Nobody spots a phoney quicker than a child." M. MacCracken
"Every child is gifted in some area. We just have to find out what." Evelyn Blose Holman
"Parenthood is a partnership with God. You are not molding iron nor chiseling marble; you are working with the Creator of the universe in shaping human character and determining destiny." -Ruth Vaughn
"Nothing you do for children is ever wasted." Garrison Keillor
"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 out." Alvin Price
"Remember to Create moments, Make memories, Shape Destinies." Nancy Gordon
"Govern a small family as you would cook a small fish, very gently." Chinese Proverb
"A mother's heart is the child's first schoolroom." Anonymous