Joseph Wood Krutch Quotes

The French talk about education, the education of their children. They don't talk about raising kids. They talk about education. And that has nothing to do with school. It's this kind of broad description of how you raise children and what you teach them.

Lot of things depend on the up bringing of a child.

There's no question that we have great value on the sanctity of the family, and there are a lot of competing visions about exactly how we teach a set of values and we teach skills to our children, especially in the early years when they're really forming their personalities, their personas, really.

The child becomes largely what it is taught; hence we must watch what we teach it, and how we live before it.

Those children who have been most chastised seldom make the best men.

As when my little son John offendeth: if then I should not whip him, but call him to the table unto me, and give him sugar and plums, thereby, I should make him worse, yea should quite spoil him.

The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today.

Give me a child and I'll shape him into anything.

Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.

Where you raise your children isn't as important as how you raise your children.

The parents have not only to train their children: it is of at least equal importance that they should train themselves.

Many people think that discipline is the essence of parenting. But that isn't parenting. Parenting is not telling your child what to do when he or she misbehaves. Parenting is providing the conditions in which a child can realize his or her full human potential.

Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.

My kids get everything they want and are raised well.

The relation between parents and children is essentially based on teaching.

I have very little patience with children.

Children should be led into the right paths, not by severity, but by persuasion.

I've got two daughters. 9 years old and 6 years old. I am going to teach them first of all about values and morals. But if they make a mistake, I don't want them punished with a baby.

Fathers like to have children good-natured, well-behaved, and comfortable, but how to put them in that desirable condition is out of their philosophy.

The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it.

A working definition of fathering might be this: fathering is the act of guiding a child to behave in ways that lead to the child's becoming a secure child in full, thus increasing his or her chances of being happy and fruitful as a young adult.

If you are a parent, the horoscope will aid you to detect the evil latent in your child and teach you how to apply the ounce of prevention. It will show you the good points also, that you may make a better man or woman of the soul entrusted to your care.

I think of discipline as the continual everyday process of helping a child learn self-discipline.

It's really difficult working with kids and with babies because they are not cooperative subjects: they are not socialized into the idea that they should cheerfully and cooperatively give you information. They're not like undergraduates, who you can bribe with beer money or course credit.

As a parent, you have to figure out how to shape your kid's character. You want to have human beings who learn about good character. You have to be able to see your child with clarity, see the good side and the bad side of them, and work on the bad side and make them better so they fulfill their potential.