A few quotes

Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts.
Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts.
Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me....
Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.
-Shel Silverstein

At work, you think of the children you have left at home. At home, you think of the work you've left unfinished. Such a struggle is unleashed within yourself. Your heart is rent.
-Golda Meir

Where did we ever get the crazy idea that in order to make children do better, first we have to make them feel worse? Think of the last time you felt humiliated or treated unfairly. Did you feel like cooperating or doing better?
-Jane Nelson

Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.
-Rabbinical saying

The best way to keep children home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant -- and let the air out of the tires.
-Dorothy Parker

Making the decision to have a child - it's momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking outside your body.
-Elizabeth Stone

Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted.
-Garrison Keillor

Too often we give our children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.
-Roger Lewin

Children will not remember you for the material things you provided but for the feeling that you cherished them.
-Richard L. Evans

We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up.
-Phyllis Diller

Before you were conceived I wanted you
Before you were born I loved you
Before you were here an hour I would die for you
This is the miracle of life.
-Maureen Hawkins