Erma Bombeck Quotes

My mom gives me an allowance. She keeps me pretty tight-reined.

You know for years, I've heard financial experts stress the importance of teaching your kids about money, but it wasn't until I saw my own son's perspective change that I became a true believer.

My mum and dad were always careful with money.

A parent who from his own childhood experience is convinced of the value of fairy tales will have no difficulty in answering his child's questions; but an adult who thinks these tales are only a bunch of lies had better not try telling them; he won't be able to related them in a way which would enrich the child's life.

The best time to start giving your children money is when they will no longer eat it. Basically, when they don't put it in their mouths, they can start putting it in their bank.

My son did not show signs of a money deficiency until he opened his small fist in the nursery and found it was empty.

The most important influence on a child is the character of its parents, rather than this or that single event.

If parents would only realize how they bore their children.

Often parents communicate most effectively with their children by the way they listen to and address each other. Their conversations showing gentleness and love are heard by our ever-alert, impressionable children.

We fail our children if we say, 'Don't do as I do, but do as I say'.

Children can find other children to be pals. Children need fathers to be fathers.

Both of my parents are teachers. One is in the Waldorf school system in Louisville, Ky., and the other runs a music school. I grew up with loving, supportive, encouraging parents that let me make my own world, and I wish that for every single child.

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.

I was the oldest child, and both my parents worked, so I had a great deal of responsibility from a very young age.

Children do not really need money. After all, they don't have to pay rent or send mailgrams.

My son's dad is committed, and involved, and amazing. We're actually really good friends. But I think it's dangerous to speak negatively to the child about your ex or the absent parent, because, believe it or not, they learn very quickly who the other parent is. And it's important that they develop their own attitudes and opinions about that other parent based on their experiences, not based on what someone has said about them.

Since no one is always right, always being right is really a role model for his children feeling inadequate.

Our children give us the opportunity to become the parents we always wished we'd had.

Who among us would ask our children for a loan, so we could spend money we do not have on things we do not need?

Children need parents who will let them grow up to be themselves, but parents often have personal agendas they try to impose on their children.

Let us live in as small a circle as we will, we are either debtors or creditors before we have had time to look around.

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.

Never allow a child to spend all of his allowance. Insist that he set aside a certain amount of money every week and put it in a safe place, where you can get it if you need to buy beer.

Those who never think of money need a great deal of it.