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"We should smile upon children and wrap them in the blanket of our affection throughout the great journey in the universal language of love."
-- (Gayle M. Clegg, "The Language of Love," Ensign, May 2002, 69)

"Your children will see what you're all about by what you live rather than what you say."
-- Wayne Dyer

"Becoming more like a child might be just what you need to move your life ahead in some wonderful ways. Children have learning curves and enjoyment curves we never approach as adults. Our learning and enjoyment of life slows the older we get. If you want to turn this around, pick up some of the attributes of children. Be curious and use this curiosity to learn. Get excited and use this excitement to enjoy life. Be spontaneous and enjoy the moment and take what there is to learn that is right in front of you. So if someone calls you childish, it might be the best compliment they could give you."
-- Edward W. Smith, Sixty Seconds To Success

"Life was a lot simpler when what we honored was father and mother rather than all major credit cards."
-- Author Unknown

"Take a child by the hand and you take a parent by the heart."
-- Anonymous

"Children are always like wet cement. Whatever falls on them makes an impression."
--Haim Ginott

"Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them."
-- James Baldwin

"Children learn more by watching than by listening. If we want our children to understand and value trust, they know it by watching how adults live their lives! If we want the children to be respectful, they will observe what the adults do and say to each other. We need to walk our talk. We need to remember the children are watching."
-- Elder's Meditation of the Day, December 18, 2005

"Children learn through gentle direction and persuasive teaching."
-- Thomas S. Monson

"Children need models rather than critics."
-- Joseph Joubert, French essayist (1752-1824)

"Contentment is ... helpful in enduring boredom and suffering. Children today use the word 'boring' frequently. It is intended as the ultimate verbal scourge, and basically it means, 'I'm discontented. Entertain me.' The prevalence of this word is an unsettling indicator of where our children are in relation to contentment."
-- Richard A. Swenson, M.D.: Margin: Restoring Emotional, Physical, Financial and Time Reserves to Overloaded Lives

"Do not train children to learning by force and harshness, but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each."
-- Plato

"The greatest deficit in America isn’t the trade deficit. It’s the attention deficit of our children. The average child gets 14 minutes of attention a day from each of his parents. So the greatest thing you can give a kid is time spent listening to him or her."
-– Jack Canfield

"If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them, and half as much money."
-- Abigail Van Buren

"Let's raise children who won't have to recover from their childhood."
-- Pam Leo, Author of Connection Parenting

"Many times, when I was having a hard time with one of my children. God would always remind me that He was having a harder time with me than I was with them."
--Charlie "Tremendous" Jones

"No gift bestowed upon us is so precious as children. They are proof that God still loves us. They are the hope of the future."
-- James E. Faust (Ensign, May 1987, p. 80.)

"No matter how calmly you try to referee, parenting will eventually produce bizarre behavior, and I'm not talking about the kids. Their behavior is always normal."
-- Bill Cosby

"Of all the good parents I know, I can't think of one who doesn't love their children more than they are loved back."
-- ©Rick Beneteau

"Our children are our jewels; we have counted well the cost;
May their angels ever guard them, and not one child be lost."
-- Aurelia Spencer Rogers

"Our children should not be neglected; they should receive a proper education in both spiritual and temporal things."
-- Wilford Woodruff (1807-1898)

"Parents are like shuttles on a loom. They join the threads of the past with threads of the future and leave their own bright patterns as they go."
-- Fred Rogers

"It's good to remember that young children often have a hard time understanding abstract ideas like patience or kindness. As you establish rules to teach these concepts, you are giving your children concrete actions which they can put into practice. Rules put feet and hands on the values you want your children to learn."
-- Scott Turansky, Effective Parenting

"There are only two lasting bequests we can give our children ... one is roots, the other wings."
-- Stephen Covey

"We need to teach the next generation of children from day one that they are responsible for their lives. Mankind's greatest gift, also its greatest curse, is that we have free choice. We can make our choices built from love or from fear."
-- Elizabeth Kubler-Ross