On Family, Children & Education

- Albert S. Taylor 

The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.

- Theodore M. Hesburgh 

Some women when taking on the name "housewife" actually become just that.
Their homes become more important to them than their husbands.
As the house takes priority over meeting the needs of the husband,
the husband begins to feel he no longer has a wife or a house.
So he chooses something else like a garage, garden, or boat that can be just the way he wants it.

- Nancy Corbett Cole

Little One’s Hero

There are little eyes upon you,
and they’re watching night and day;
There are little ears that quickly take in
every word you say;
There are little hands all eager
to do everything you do,
And a little boy who’s dreaming
of the day he’ll be like you.

You’re the little fellow’s idol,
you’re wisest of the wise;
In his little mind about you
no suspicions ever rise;
He believes in you devoutly,
holds that all you say and do;
He will say and do in your way
when he’s grown up like you.

There’s a wide-eyed little fellow
who believes you’re always right;
And his ears are always open
and he watches day and night,
You are setting an example everyday
in all you do;
For the little boy who’s waiting
to grow up just like you.

- Author Unknown 

You can change your surname, but you can't change your father.

A Teacher's Prayer

The mediocre teacher tells.
The good teacher explains.
The superior teacher demonstrates.
But the great teacher inspires.

- William Arthur Ward 

If you believe what you say, what you say will be more believable.

Train up a child in the way he should go:
and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

- Proverbs 22:6 

Withhold not correction from the child: for if thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die.

- Proverbs 23:13 

The rod and reproof give wisdom: but a child left to himself bringeth his mother to shame.

- Proverbs 29:15 

Each little child God sends our way
Is like a piece of soft, new clay;
‘Tis ours to mould and shape and trim
To make it pleasing unto Him.

- Garka 

Perhaps the most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do
when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not; it is the first lesson that ought to be learned;
and however early a man's training begins, it is probably the last lesson he learns thoroughly.

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

- Will Durant  

While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is about.

- Angela Schwindt  

Kids used to ask you where they came from - now they tell you where to go.

Beat your child once a day. If you don't know why, he does.

Infants speak many languages before they find one that grown-ups can understand.

There are three ways to get something done:
do it yourself,
employ someone
or forbid your children to do it.

- Monta Crane