HAPPY PARENTS HAPPY CHILDREN

1. HAPPY PARENTS HAPPY CHILDREN A presentation with a positive message.

2. There are no illegitimate children - only illegitimate parents. Leon R. Yankwich

3. There comes a time when a woman needs to stop thinking about her looks and focus her energies on raising her children. This time comes at the moment of conception. A child needs a role model,not a supermodel. Astrid Alauda

4. The quickest way for a parent to get a child's attention is to sit down and look comfortable. Lane Olinghouse

5. You don't really understand human nature unless you know why a child on a merry-go-round will wave at his parents every time around – and why his parents will always wave back. William D. Tammeus

6. Smack your child every day. If you don't know why - he does. Joey Adams

7. Always kiss your children goodnight - even if they're already asleep. H. Jackson Brown, Jr

8. There is only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it. Chinese Proverb

9. Parenthood: That state of being better chaperoned than you were before marriage. Marcelene Cox

10. Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you. Robert Fulghum

11. If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders. AbigailVan Buren

12. What's done to children, they will do to society. Karl Menninger

13. You have a lifetime to work, but children are only young once. Polish Proverb

14. Human beings are the only creatures on earth that allow their children to come back home. Bill Cosby

15. A lot of parents pack up their troubles and send them off to summer camp. Raymond Duncan

16. If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in. Yourselves.CJ Jung

17. Children are a great comfort in your old age - and they help you reach it faster too. Lionel Kauffman

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

19. The clash between child and adult is never so stubborn as when the child within us confronts the adult in our child. Robert Brault

20. The trouble with learning to parent on the job is that your child is the teacher. Robert Brault

21. Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children, and no theories. John Wilmot

22. To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while. JoshBillings

23. You see much more of your children once they leave home. Lucille Ball

24. Being a child at home alone in the summer is a high-risk occupation. If you call your mother at work thirteen times an hour, she can hurt you. E Bombeck

26. Every child born into the world is a new thought of God,an ever fresh and radiant possibility.

27. Raising children is like making biscuits: it is as easy to raise a big batch as one, while you have your hands in the dough. E.W. Howe

28. Your children need your presence more than your presents. Jesse Jackson

29. The one thing children wear out faster than shoes is parents. J. Plomp

30. Most of us become parents long before we have stopped being children. Mignon Mc Laughlin

31. It's not only children who grow. Parents do too. As much as we watch to see what our children do with their lives, they are watching us to see what we do with ours. I can't tell my children to reach for the sun. All I can do is reach for it, myself. Joyce Maynard

32. It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't. BarbaraKingsolver

33. The finest inheritance you can give to a child is to allow it to make its own way, completely on its own feet.

34. You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's. He is more particular… The father is always a Republican towards his son, and his mother's always a Democrat. RobertFrost

35. The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering. Benjamin Spock

36. When you teach your son, you teach your son's son. The Talmud

37. Parenting is a stage of life's journey where the milestones come about every fifty feet. RobertBrault

38. A mother understands what a child does not say.

39. PRESENTATION BY MB 2010 COPYRIGHTS TO ALL PHOTOS AND MUSIC BELONG TO THE ORIGINAL AUTHORS