Josh Billings Quotes

I'm not a role model. I say parents should parent and monitor their kids.

You have to support your children to have a healthy relationship.

It surprises me how much children like me, you know? If they look at me as an example, I have a big responsibility.

I have 'Parents' magazine in my home.

A parentologist is a person who writes a book about parenting that is very clear about answers to, 'How am I supposed to raise my child?' Some of these well-intentioned people may be a bit too sure-footed on the sometimes slippery slope of parenting.

That's the most important thing you do in your life - raise children and try to do the best job as a parent and give your kids the best shot in life to go out there into the big, bad world.

We all want to do the right thing for our children. We all don't know what that is and we all - you know, you won't know until the future.

Be careful about the advice you give, especially to your children.

Hold back the tide. Keep your kids innocent as long as possible.

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

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

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.

Parents cannot expect advice to have the same force upon their children as experience has upon themselves.

I'm a very firm believer that a liar is a cheat and a thief and a crook. I don't like liars. I never lie. I always told my own child, "If you murder somebody, tell me. I'll help you hide the body. But don't you lie to me.

Raising children is like making biscuits: it is as easy to raise a big batch as one, while you have your hands in the dough.

The vilest abortionist is he who attempts to mould a child's character.

Let the child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt.

If you would train your children rightly, train them in the way they should go and not in the way they would.

My children are now adults and just kind of guide them while they allow you to have input in their lives without controlling them the way you did when they were toddlers. These are good steps to use for fathers at each step of their children's lives.

Children are arrows in a quiver, and they are to be trained as missionaries and shot at the Devil.

Since civilizing children takes the better part of two decades--some twenty years of nonstop thinking, nurturing, teaching, coaxing, rewarding, forgiving, warning, punishing, sympathizing, apologizing, reminding, and repeating, not to mention deciding what to do when--I now understand that one wrong move is invariably followed by hundreds of opportunities to be wrong again.

My young friend supposes his ingenuousness is merely a ruse.

One man may be more cunning than another, but no one can be more cunning than all the world.

Thus parents, by humouring and cockering them when little, corrupt the principles of nature in their children, and wonder afterwards to taste the bitter waters, when they themselves have poison'd the fountain.

. . . if we have children. When they are just born we do everything for them. We are omnipotent, they are completely dependent on us, but then when they grow up you must take back your influence on them, to give them freedom.