Robert Frost Quotes

Bringing up children is not a real occupation, because children come up just the same, brought or not.

Yes, you will. And I will warn you now that not their blood but your suspicion might build evil in them. They will be what you expect of them…I think when a man finds good or bad in his children he is seeing only what he planted in them after they cleared the womb." "You can’t make a race horse of a pig." "No," said Samuel, "but you can make a very fast pig.

One has very little influence upon one's children. Their characters are what they are and one can do nothing to change them.

If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.

Give me a child for the first 7 years, and you may do what you like with him afterwards.

The first 3 years of a person’s life determines the next 80 years.

A child who passes through many hands in turn, can never be well brought up. At every change he makes a secret comparison, which continually tends to lessen his respect for those who control him, and with it their authority over him. If once he thinks there are grown-up people with no more sense than children the authority of age is destroyed and his education is ruined.

And Grandmother Hall really imagines that she can raise Eleanor and her two brothers differently than these children were raised. And if she is very strict and everything is very regimented and ordered and disciplined, that they will become the perfect children who her own children did not become.

Thus parents, by humouring and cockering them when little, corrupt the principles of nature in their children, and wonder afterwards to taste the bitter waters, when they themselves have poison'd the fountain.

In the homes of America are born the children of America; and from them go out into American life, American men and women. They go out with the stamp of these homes upon them; and only as these homes are what they should be, will they be what they should be.

The deeds of the children are a testament to the upbringing they received from their parents.

Who we are and how we engage with the world are much stronger predictors of how our children will do than what we know about parenting.

A mother's example sketches the outline of her child's character.

The future destiny of a child is always the work of the mother

Children have a lot more to worry about from the parents who raised them than from the books they read.

Badgered, snubbed and scolded on the one hand; petted, flattered and indulged on the other-it is astonishing how many children work their way up to an honest manhood in spite of parents and friends. Human nature has an element of great toughness in it.

Geniuses are just people who had good mothers.

Children pay little attention to their parents' teachings, but reproduce their characters faithfully

All good qualities in a child are the result of environment, while all the bad ones are the result of poor heredity on the side of the other parent

This mother needs happy, reputable children, and that one needs unhappy ones: otherwise she cannot show her kindness as a mother.

Each child should be more intelligent than his parents.

In intimate family life, there comes a moment when children, willingly or no, become the judges of their parents.

All of my children are the same way I am. They're little artists too, in their own ways.

I think it's up to the parents to determine whether what they're doing is consigning their child to difficulty. It's not as though they were crippling their children after they were born.

There is no single effort more radical in its potential for saving the world than a transformation of the way we raise our children.