R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes

I have long felt that the way to keep children out of trouble is to keep them interested in things.

Do not have your child's hair cut by a real hairdresser in a real hairdressing salon. He is, at this point, far too short to be exposed to contempt.

...the more risks you allow children to take, the better they learn to take care of themselves. If you never let them take any risks, then I believe they become very prone to injury. Boys should be allowed to climb tall trees and walk along the tops of high walls and dive into the sea from high rocks... The same with girls. I like the type of child who takes risks. Better by far than the one who never does so.

How are children supposed to learn to act like adults, when so much of what they see on television shows adults acting like children?

You've got to keep the child alive; you can't create without it.

Fathers and mothers are too absorbed in business and housekeeping to study their children, and cherish that sweet and natural confidence which is a child's surest safeguard, and a parent's subtlest power.

To be told that our child's behavior is "normal" offers little solace when our feelings are badly hurt, or when we worry that hisactions are harmful at the moment or may be injurious to his future. It does not help me as a parent nor lessen my worries when my child drives carelessly, even dangerously, if I am told that this is "normal" behavior for children of his age. I'd much prefer him to deviate from the norm and be a cautious driver!

What I want for children in our country and around the world is safe, stable and loving homes.

The legacy I want to leave is a child-care system that says that no kid is going to be left alone or left unsafe.

Raising a child is like taking care of someone who's on way too many shrooms, while you yourself are on a moderate amount of shrooms. I am not confident in my decisions, but I know you should not be eating a mousepad.

Parenting is a negative thing. Keep your children from killing themselves, or anyone else, and hope for the best.

Don't indulge your theories, think of your children and listen to the experts.

Do not erase the designs the child makes in the soft wax of his inner life.

The best candy shop a child can be left alone in, is the library

The more risks you allow your children to make, the better they learn to look after themselves.

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

You want your children to be safe. You want your families to be safe. We know that.

Prayers are to men as dolls are to children.

Babies are equipped at birth with a number of instinctive reflexes and behavior patterns that cause them to spend their first several years trying to kill themselves. If your home contains a sharp, toxic object, your baby will locate it; if your home contains no such object, your baby will try to obtain one via mail order.

No child's behind left.

The question isn't so much "Are you parenting the right way?" as it is: "Are you the adult that you want your child to grow up to be?"

Children are to be welcomed, cherished, protected.

Today's toys contain computer chips, so they can move and talk; this stimulates the mind of your child. Notice I say "your child." MY child just wants to eat the toys.

All that children need is love, a grown-up to take responsibility for them, and a soft place to land.

A child can be taught not to do certain things, such as touch a hot stove, pull lamps off of tables, and wake Mommy before noon.