A child is a curly, dimpled lunatic.

A child is a curly, dimpled lunatic.

We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve read more

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.

The most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.

The most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.

If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others.

If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others.

Child abuse casts a shadow the length of a lifetime.

Child abuse casts a shadow the length of a lifetime.

Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers.

Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers.

Loving a child doesn't mean giving in to all his whims; to love him is to bring out the best read more

Loving a child doesn't mean giving in to all his whims; to love him is to bring out the best in him, to teach him to love what is difficult.

Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.

Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.

When the first baby laughed for the first time, the laugh broke into a thousand pieces and they all went read more

When the first baby laughed for the first time, the laugh broke into a thousand pieces and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies. And now when every new baby is born its first laugh becomes a fairy. So there ought to be one fairy for every boy or girl.