George Washington Quotes

Educating a child won't be difficult if you get through to the parent.

It's very important, once you are a parent, that you educate your kid day by day.

There is but one way to eliminate juvenile delinquency - that is by providing each child in America with competent parents.

To breed up the son to common sense is evermore the parent's least expense.

Parents have no greater responsibility in this world than the bringing up of their children in the right way, and they will have no greater satisfaction as the years pass than to see those children grow in integrity and honesty and make something of their lives.

I'm not a goody-two-shoes. I'm just a father with four children.

I do feel a lot of times like I'm out of my league with my kids in terms of what my responsibility is.

Parents are supposed to instruct their kids. It doesn't mean they necessarily have that gift of teaching.

I spent a lot of time in boarding school. This is something I will never do to my kids. I think if you're having kids, then you have to take care of them; otherwise, what's the point? There are many things that parents say are good for the kids, but the truth is they say that because it is good for the parents.

It is not possible for any institutions to interfere in the way parents raise their children.

Liberals don't think parents can be left to their own devices when it comes to raising our children.

I know of no more sacred duty than to rear and educate a child.

Children grow out of childhood, but parents never grow out of parenthood.

This is our first task-caring for our children. It's our first job. If we don't get that right, we don't get anything right. That's how, as a society, we will be judged.

Those parents who do not educate their sons are their enemies; for as is a crane among swans, so are ignorant so are ignorant sons in a public assembly.

I think that parents only get so offended by television because they rely on it as a babysitter and the sole educator of their kids.

A mom and dad found an S&M magazine under their 10-year-old son's bed, and the dad said, 'Well, we sure can't spank him.'

Work at our responsibility as parents as if everything in life counted on it.

We are all, I suppose, beholden to our parents - the question is, how much?

It is no hard matter to get children; but after they are born, then begins the trouble, solicitude, and care rightly to train, principle, and bring them up.

Don't be a pal to your son. Be his father. What child needs a 40-year-old for a friend?

The child’s parents are not his makers but his guardians.

I take the academic education as seriously as the physical education. That's why I tell parents that the schools can't do it all themselves. The parents can't come home from work and turn on the TV. That's not being a good parent.

Parents often brag about the amount of money spent per child, but I think, perhaps ironically, those great monies that are spent - I call it putting a band-aid on a hemorrhage.

I think you should leave it up to the parent, because not all parents want to keep their children totally ignorant.