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Your
children need your presence more than your presents.
-- Jesse Jackson |
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The
family is the corner stone of our society. More than
any other force it shapes the attitude, the hopes, the
ambitions, and the values of the child. And when the
family collapses it is the children that are usually
damaged. When it happens on a massive scale the community
itself is crippled. So, unless we work to strengthen
the family, to create conditions under which most parents
will stay together, all the rest — schools, playgrounds,
and public assitance, and private concern — will never
be enough.
-- Lyndon Johnson
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We
teach academic subjects and we assume life skills
will somehow be acquired along the way. Not a
safe assumption! The curriculum has to include
things like communication, conflict resolution,
parenting, family dynamics, critical thinking,
values, ethics.
-- Azim Khamisa
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Life
affords no greater responsibility, no greater privilege,
than the raising of the next generation.
-- C. Everett Koop
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If
I had my child to raise all over again, I'd build self-esteem
first, and the house later. I'd finger-paint more, and
point the finger less. I would do less correcting and
more connecting. I'd take my eyes off my watch, and
watch with my eyes. I'd take more hikes and fly more
kites. I'd stop playing serious, and seriously play.
I would run through more fields and gaze at more stars.
I'd do more hugging and less tugging.
-- Diane Loomans, from "If I Had My Child To Raise Over
Again"
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One
of the things my parents taught me, and I'll always
be grateful for the gift, is to not ever let anybody
else define me.
-- Wilma Mankiller
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None
of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves
up by our bootstraps. We got here because somebody
- a parent, a teacher, an Ivy League crony or a
few nuns - bent down and helped us pick up our boots.
-- Thurgood
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It's
not only children who grow. Parents do too. As much
as we watch to see what our children do with their lives,
they are watching us to see what we do with ours. I
can't tell my children to reach for the sun. All I can
do is reach for it, myself.
-- Joyce Maynard
Children
Learn What They Live -
If a child lives with criticism, he learns to condemn.
If a child lives with hostility, he learns to fight.
If a child lives with ridicule, he learns to be shy.
If a child learns to feel shame, he learns to feel guilty.
If a child lives with tolerance, he learns to be patient.
If a child lives with encouragement he learns confidence
If a child lives with praise, he learns to appreciate.
He a child lives with fairness, he learns justice.
If a child lives with security, he learns to have faith.
If a child lives with approval, he learns to like himself.
If a child lives with acceptance and friendship, he
learns to find love in the world.
-- Dorothy Law Neite
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My
parents shared not only an improbable love, they
shared an abiding faith in the possibilities of
this nation.
-- Barack Obama
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The
guys who fear becoming fathers don't understand that
fathering is not something perfect men do, but something
that perfects the man. The end product of child raising
is not the child but the parent.
-- Frank Pittman
“Romance
fails us and so do friendships, but the relationship
of parent and child, less noisy than all the others,
remains indelible and indestructible, the strongest
relationship on earth”
-- Theodore Reik
Parents
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Parents
Day - 4th Sunday in July
International
Day of Families
- May 15
Mother's
Day - 2nd Sunday in May
Father's
Day - 3rd Sunday in June
Family
Day
- September 26
