Nancy Reagan Quotes

The greatest gift a parent can give a child is unconditional love. As a child wanders and strays, finding his bearings, he needs a sense of absolute love from a parent. There's nothing wrong with tough love, as long as the love is unconditional.

Every boy wants someone older than himself to whom he may go in moods of confidence and yearning. The neglect of this child's want by grown people . . . is a fertile source of suffering.

It is not possible to 'spoil' a child with love and affection...a child needs all the love and affection it can possibly get.

To a child, 'love' is spelled T-I-M-E.

Somehow, we have to get older people back close to growing children if we are to restore a sense of community, acquire knowledge of the past, and provide a sense of the future.

If you don't show care and love for your children and leave the mothers to take care of all their needs, if they grow up, they will also not consider you.

Centenarians are still living near their children and feel loved and the expectation to love. Instead of being mere recipients of care, they are contributors to the lives of their families. They grow gardens to contribute vegetables, they continue to cook and clean.

Instead of giving your children more things, give them more time.

Kids need parents who love and support them unconditionally, full stop.

I think the key to being a good parent is to individualize your love for each child.

It's important for my kids to see our family strong and united.

My job as a mother isn't just to provide for my children, it's to be there for them, too - someone they can speak to, hang out with, and lean on.

I have three godkids that are just so gorgeous; I love them dearly, and they keep me going.

My kids really still share the one thing that I think is life-changing, and that's eye contact with me. As they've gotten older, I have made it a priority to continue that.

Start your child's day with love and encouragement and end the day the same way.

In our families we learn to love and to recognise the dignity of all, especially of the elderly

All people, even one's own children, come with baggage. When they're little, you have to help them carry it. But when they grow up, you have to do that difficult thing of setting their baggage down and taking up your own again.

You have to empathize with your children. If you love them, you never really get too angry with them when they make a mistake, because kids are expected to make mistakes. Having children, you start to see yourself through them.

I'm a family guy. Most important thing in my life by far is my relationship with my wife and my sons, daughters-in-law, and 18 grandchildren. And for me, this is all about them.

And above all, children need our unconditional love - whether they succeed or make mistakes; when life is easy and when life is tough.

A healthy community is one in which the elderly protect, care for, love and assist the younger ones to provide continuity and hope.

A population that does not take care of the elderly and of children and the young has no future, because it abuses both its memory and its promise.

When children are loved, they live off trust; their bides and hearts open up to those who respect and love them, who understand and listen to them.

With children Love is spelled TIME.

People who don't cherish their elderly have forgotten whence they came and whither they go.