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Each child should be more intelligent than his parents. -- Clarence Darrow
Children are our second chance to have a great parent-child relationship. -- Laura Schlessinger
When you have children, your perspective on the parent-child relationship alters. -- Salman Rushdie
It's about strengthening the relationship and the bond of parent to child. -- Blair Underwood
The parent-child connection is the most powerful mental health intervention known to mankind. -- Bessel van der Kolk
The problem with children is that you have to put up with their parents. -- Charles de Lint
If there is anyone dependent on your income - parents, children, relatives - you need life insurance. -- Suze Orman
At some point as adults we cease to be our parents' children and we become our children's parents instead. -- William Landay
Parents with meager means have the same aspirations for their children as other parents. Children from poor families have the same needs as other children. -- Mark Sanford
Primate and elephant and even pig societies show considerable evidence of care for others, parent-child bonding, solidarity in the face of danger, and so on. -- Christopher Hitchens
Human relationships used to be easy: you had friends, boy- or girlfriends, parents, children, and landlords. Now, thanks to social media, it's all gone sideways. -- Susan Orlean
All good qualities in a child are the result of environment, while all the bad ones are the result of poor heredity on the side of the other parent -- Elinor Smith
For the joy of human love, brother, sister, parent, child, Friends on earth and friends above, for all gentle thoughts and mild; Christ, our God, to Thee we raise this our Sacrifice of grateful praise. -- Folliott Sandford Pierpoint
And most of the failures in parent-child relationships, from my observation, begin when the child begins to acquire a mind and a will of its own, to make independent decisions and to question the omnipotence or the wisdom of the parent. -- Sydney J. Harris
When parents see their children's problems as opportunities to build the relationship instead of as negative, burdensome irritations, it totally changes the nature of parent-child interaction. Parents become more willing, even excited, about deeply understanding and helping their children. . . . This paradigm is powerful in business as well. -- Stephen Covey
Our duties naturally emerge form such fundamental relations as our families, neighborhoods, workplaces, our state or nation. Make it your regular habit to consider your roles-parent, child, neighbor, citizen, leader-and the natural duties that arise from them. Once you know who you are and to whom you are linked, you will know what to do. -- Epictetus
Wherever possible, home is by far the best nest until at least eight, ten or twelve. Psychologists and psychiatrists who understand child development would prefer an even later age. In a reasonably warm home, parent-child responses, the true ABC's of sound education, are likely to be a hundred times more frequent than the average teacher-child responses in a classroom. -- Dorothy Moore
There's always the syndrome of the parent-child relationship: when someone has known you since you were very young, it doesn't matter how much more independent, how much older or more mature you get - there is still that element, the dynamic of the relationship that is very hard to successfully transform, and that has nothing to do with the music-making, in the end. -- Helene Grimaud
The mother is the child's supreme parent. -- Havelock Ellis
The suspicious parent makes an artful child. -- Thomas Chandler Haliburton
Never underestimate a parent's ability to mortify his child. -- Peter Gallagher
A good parent gives their child roots and wings. -- Jonas Salk
Every parent can imagine the joys of child abuse. -- Mason Cooley
I understand the importance of bondage between parent and child. -- Dan Quayle
I think the greatest challenge between child and parent is communication. -- Sean Covey
An obedient child learns from the example of an obedient parent. -- Jim George
Gaming is the child of avarice, but the parent of prodigality. -- Charles Caleb Colton
When a parent loses a child, there is no greater pain. -- Sylvester Stallone
I have a child and I'm a parent first of all. -- Izabella Scorupco
Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion. -- Miguel de Unamuno
... education is the second food a parent can give a child. -- Uzoma Nnadi
There is never a problem child; there is only a problem parent -- Alexander Sutherland Neill
Had any parent ever succeeded in hiding marital unhappiness from their child? -- Rafael Yglesias
Heredity: the traits that a disobedient child gets from the other parent. -- Luther Burbank
There is no greater grief, than when a parent losses a child. -- Asa Don Brown
A parent can give a child no greater gift than beautiful manners. -- Hakim
Having one child makes you a parent; having two, you are a referee. -- David Frost
Having one child makes you a parent; having two you are a referee. -- David Frost
The end product of child raising is not the child but the parent. -- Frank Pittman
It hurts real bad to have that protection barrier between parent and child -- Susan Smith
It hurts real bad to have that protection barrier between parent and child. -- Susan Smith
If you've never been hated by your child, you've never been a parent. -- Bette Davis
Educating a child won't be difficult if you get through to the parent. -- John Henrik Clarke
The greatest gift a parent can leave a child is that parent's own independence. -- Rosamunde Pilcher
A perfect parent is a person with excellent child-rearing theories and no actual children. -- Dave Barry
There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child. -- Henry Ward Beecher
If you raise a child, there's no time, you can't be a great parent. -- Geoffrey Canada
Respect the child. Be not too much his parent. Trespass not on his solitude. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The secret of dealing successfully with a child is not to be its parent. -- Mell Lazarus
Every parent has gone through a period when their child wasn't so happy with them. -- Elizabeth Edwards
An unlimited amount of ability can develop when parent and child are having fun together. -- Shinichi Suzuki
Start a program for gifted children, and every parent demands that his child be enrolled. -- Thomas A. Bailey
Creating a child takes no love or skill; being a parent requires lots of both. -- Michael Josephson
Being a 'good' parent is more about the parent, and, less about the 'supposedly-could-have-been-bad' child. -- Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Growing up an only child with a single parent is probably why I'm an actor. -- Lauren Graham
If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent. -- Bette Davis
A parent may be without a job, but no child should be without a doctor. -- William J. Clinton
A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Freedom to really prioritize and really zone into what really matters which is the parent-child connection. -- Shefali Tsabary
I think every parent takes more pleasure in seeing their child succeed than seeing themselves succeed. -- Jerry Reinsdorf
The love of a parent for a child is the love that should grow towards separation. -- Khalil Gibran
Nothing affects the life of a child so much as the unlived life of its parent -- Carl Jung
Christianity knows no truth which is not the child of love and the parent of duty. -- Phillips Brooks
The trouble with learning to parent on the job is that your child is the teacher. -- Robert Breault
Life and the universe compare to each other like a child and a parent, parent and offspring. -- Dimitar Sasselov
Even though you can't control outcomes for your child, you can parent unconditionally with all your heart. -- Lisa Coyne
The best thing a parent can do for a child is to love his or her spouse. -- Zig Ziglar
It is my wish to delight all members of the family, young and old, parent and child. -- Walt Disney
Any time your parent says they party with you, that is its own form of child abuse. -- Dennis Miller
Being a parent wasn't just about bearing a child. It was about bearing witness to its life. -- Jodi Picoult
Never underestimate the power that comes when a parent pleads with God on behalf of a child. -- Max Lucado
One of the greatest gifts a parent can give a child is to help them find their talents. -- Sean Covey
In order to influence a child, one must be careful not to be that child's parent or grandparent. -- Don Marquis
You never stop being a parent, Adam, no matter how old or wise your child becomes you'll see. -- Robert Charles Wilson
Had Mother Nature been a real parent, she would have been in jail for child abuse and murder. -- Nick Bostrom
My feelings towards it can only be paralleled by that of a doting parent towards an idiot child. -- Charlotte Bronte
As a parent with a child with autism, its been really tough to experience your child having autism. -- Deron Williams
A child's job is to test her boundaries, a parent's is to see that she survives the test. -- Roger McDonald
What can be more clear and sound in explanation, than the love of a parent to his child? -- William Godwin
Like many a modern parent, I had no clear notion of how to help my most troubled child. -- Jean Sasson
As a parent with a child with autism, it's been really tough to experience your child having autism. -- Deron Williams
Being a parent is apparently more than most men can handle. This is transparent to even the tiniest child. -- Jarod Kintz
Children can be happy when their parents are miserable. But a parent is never happier than her unhappiest child. -- Laura Lippman
Parent's job = Prepare the child for the world. Parent of autistic child's job = Prepare the world for the child. -- Stuart Duncan
[I'm a conscious parent when I] believe that my child matters more than their relationship to academics or success. -- Shefali Tsabary
Unconditional love is what a child should expect from a parent even though it rarely works out that way. -- Jeanette Winterson
The best words of wisdom that a parent can say to their child is "I Am proud of you". -- Unarine Ramaru
There are subtle ways and overt ways of alienating a child from a parent, but either way it's evil -- Dennis Prager
A dog is the greatest gift a parent can give a child. OK, a good education, then a dog. -- John Grogan
The greatest gift a parent can give a child during all the ups and downs of life is love. -- Doc Childre
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I would have made a terrible parent. The first time my child didn't do what I wanted, I'd kill him. -- Katharine Hepburn
Today is the child of yesterday and the parent of tomorrow. The work you produce today will create your future. -- Bruce Mau
A stodgy parent is no fun at all. What a child wants and deserves is a parent who is SPARKY -- Roald Dahl
I think the best thing a parent can do, when raising a child, is simply get out of their way. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies. -- Red Auerbach
As a parent, the responsible thing to do - if you love your child - is to vaccinate your child. -- Melinda Gates
What the best and wisest parent wants for his own child, that that must community want for all it's children. -- John Dewey
If a child cannot place implicit confidence in his parent, most assuredly no confidence can be reposed in the child. -- John S.C. Abbott
Like a good parent can't also be his child's best friend, a leader with authority requires some separation from subordinates. -- Simon Sinek
I hope everyone can examine what is the most important relationship in life - the relationship between parent and child. -- Jet Li
Raising a child is a time of RAPID CHANGE! From the ages of 0 to 19, a PARENT can age over 30 years! -- Tanya Masse
Spanking a child is about the parent not the child. The child will learn more from positive correction than physical manipulation. -- Asa Don Brown
The home is the child's first school, the parent is the child's first teacher, and reading is the child's first subject. -- Barbara Bush
The most difficult part of dating as a single parent is deciding how much risk your own child's heart is worth. -- Daniel Pearce
What you must accept as a parent is that you cannot always be there for your child without sometimes ruining everything. -- Robert Breault
There comes a moment as a parent when you realize you will no longer be the center of your child's universe. -- Carre Otis
If a child, a spouse, a life partner, or a parent depends on you and your income, you need life insurance. -- Suze Orman
If my child had prejudice in his head, I'd be ashamed. I would see it as my failure as a parent. -- Salman Rushdie
If the money we donate helps one child or can ease the pain of one parent, those funds are well spent. -- Carl Karcher
Is the parent better than the child into whom he has cast his ripened being? Whence, then, this worship of the past? -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It's not the child's responsibility to teach the parent who they are. It's the parent's responsibility to learn who the child is. -- Tig Notaro
Every parent, no matter how cultured or sophisticated, will one day succumb to a child's pleas to visit Walt Disney World Resort. -- Simon Van Booy
Tickle Monster' is an interactive book and, by the nature of the story, bonds the parent and child through tickling and laughter. -- Josie Bissett
PartingOne is strong, a child now grownThe other weak, a parent aged-The strong once feebleThe weak once mighty-Time, the infinityhas marked them... -- Muse
The character and history of each child may be a new and poetic experience to the parent, if he will let it. -- Margaret Fuller
Nothing's scarier than having a sick child, and one so newly born, and so vulnerable. It's the worst thing for a parent. -- Kenneth Oppel
I agree that a love of reading is a great gift for a parent to pass on to his or her child. -- Ann Brashares
I always say that a successful parent is one who raises a child so that they can pay for their own psychoanalysis. -- Nora Ephron
The biggest insult to any parent is a child that lives up to society standards and not his or her full potential. -- Unarine Ramaru

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