By the time the average teenager is able to work, he won’t.
Children are often spoiled because no one will spank Grandma.
The most juvenile delinquents are the ones more than forty years old.
Every child is a bundle of potential.
The character of our children tomorrow is shaped by what they learn from us today.
“Juvenile delinquency” is the result of parents trying to train children without starting at the bottom.
There are some children who should be applauded with one hand.
Anyone who sleeps like a baby doesn’t have a baby.
Child training–parents are training their children how later to train their children.
The greatest aid in adult education is children.
It now costs more to amuse a child than it once did to educate his father.
The strongest faith is often found in a child’s heart.
He who takes the child by the hand takes the mother by the heart.
Every child has the right to the affection and intelligent guidance of understanding parents.
The surest way to make it hard for your children is to make it soft for them.
Here’s a way to punish your children: take them away from their grandparents.
Better to bring the children to church and hear them cry there than to leave them at home and later cry in court.
Kids never change. First they won’t hang up their clothes; then they won’t hang up the phone.
A tanker can spill six million barrels of oil, and nothing happens–a child spills a glass of milk and he is punished.
When a child gets off the track, he can be put back on by pulling a switch.
If you find your son going down the wrong track, perhaps you didn’t switch him soon enough.
The way to tell a child is growing up is when he stops asking where he came from and starts refusing to tell you where he’s going.
A juvenile delinquent sows his wild oats, and his parents pray for a crop failure.
It’s hard for children to learn manners when they never see any.
The best thing parents can spend on their children is time–not money.
Another thing the modern child learns at his mother’s knee is to watch out for the cigarette ashes.
No man really finds out what he believes until he begins to instruct his children.
Years ago the board of education was a shingle.
We need a child labor law to keep children from working their parents to death.
The best time to put the children to bed is while you still have the strength.
There is only one beautiful child in the world, and my mother has it.
A perfect example of minority rule is the baby in the house.
Children and canoes are alike–they go best when paddled from the rear.
What on earth will today’s younger generation tell their children they had to do without?
Did you ever notice how your belief in heredity is reinforced when one of your children does something outstanding?
Children are creatures who disgrace you by showing in public the example you set for them at home.
When parents don’t mind that their children don’t mind, the children won’t.
The one reason there are so many juvenile delinquents today is that their parents didn’t burn their britches behind them.
Years ago when the son started sowing wild oats, the father started the thrashing machine.
The best inheritance parents can leave a child is a good name.
“Stay at home” parents seldom beget “go to church” children.
We recall when a wayward child was straightened up by being bent over.
The great man never loses his child’s heart.
Children should be taught more about the Rock of Ages instead of the ages of the rocks.
It costs less to train one hundred children in Christian living than it costs to deal with one average criminal.
Teaching smaller children may focus on four-letter words such as duty, work, earn, give, and love.
The man who lets his children take second place to his work will live to regret it.
A child of five, if properly instructed, can as truly believe and be regenerated as an adult.
Many a woman who has low-rated her son-in-law has live to brag about her brilliant grandchildren.
Nobody bruises as easily but heals as quickly as a child.
Children are so expensive today only the rich can afford them.
One way to curb delinquency is to take the parents off the streets at night.
One way to teach children to count is to give them different allowances.
Rearing children is like drafting a blueprint–you have to know where to draw the line.
Money may not be everything, but it keeps you in touch with your children.
One reason why so many children are seen on the streets at night is they are afraid to stay at home alone.
The trouble with some of today’s smart kids–they don’t smart in the right place.
One way to correct your children is to correct the example you are setting for them.
Education is what the parents get when the children are home from school on vacation.
A little more spank and a little less Spock might be the answer to many of our problems at home.
Babies are angels whose wings grow shorter as their legs grow longer.
The simplicity of the child and the profundity of the sage must be combined to make a perfect man.
More twins are being born these days. Could it be that kids lack the courage to come into the world alone?
Every child should have the right and privilege to be brought up in a Christian home.
As boys grow, so grows the nation.
It is easier to build a boy than to mend a man.
Before I was married, I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
Lead a child to Christ–save a life.
Many fathers are willing to give their children everything except themselves.
Television is an appliance that changes children from irresistible forces to immovable objects.
A child is easy to impress but hard to convince.
It’s a shame that adults do not make friends as easily as children.
A child’s love is the purest thing in the universe.
An unusual child is one who asks questions that a parent can always answer.
Parents don’t bring up children anymore–they finance them.
It’s extremely important that parents with small children save something for a rainy day–their patience.
Perhaps we wouldn’t need to be worried about how our kids turned out if we were more concerned about when they “turned in.”
So live that when people say your son reminds them of you, he will stick out his chest, not his tongue.
The parent who is afraid to put his foot down will have children who step on his toes.
Perfect age for children–when they are old enough to shovel snow, but not old enough to drive.
Ideas are like children–your own are wonderful.
The worst thing about growing old is listening to your children’s advice.
The only thing that children wear out faster than shoes are parents and teachers.
The child who knows the value of a dollar will usually wind up asking for two.
Chances are you will be proud of your children if you give them a reason to be proud of you.
When adults behave like children, we call them juveniles, but when children behave like adults, we call them delinquents.
Next year three and a half million kids will turn sixteen and seven million parents will turn pale.
School days can be the happiest days of your life, providing the children are old enough to go.
If you have given up trying to open something, tell a four-year-old not to touch it.
It’s funny that the things your kids did that got on your nerves seem cute when your grandchildren do them.
To insure the education of teenagers, parents need to pull a few wires–television, telephone, and ignition.
Allow a pig and a boy to have everything they want and you’ll end up with a good pig and a bad boy.
Keep out of your child’s life anything that will keep Christ out of his heart.
Adolescence is when children start bringing up their parents.
When children fight and pout, bending them over sometimes straightens them out.
This would be a better world if more kids were raised at mother’s knee and across father’s knee.
At times children can either be a lump in the throat or a pain in the neck.
A child that is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone.
The quickest way to get a child’s attention is to take a nap.
Children are not only deductible, they’re taxing.
A sweater is a garment worn by a child when his mother feels chilly.
Summer is the time when kids are out of school, and moms are out of their minds.
A woman handles a child much better with one finger than a man does with both fists.
Some people really bring their children up–others let them down.
Great people never lose their child’s heart.
Your children are not only heirs to your possessions–they are heirs to your values and character.
A boy becomes a man when he stops asking his father for money and requests a loan.
The behavior of some children suggests that their parents embarked on the sea of matrimony without a paddle.
Seventy-five million children between eight and fifteen years of age work in the labor forces of the world, and some of them never live long enough to become a teenager.
Children who watch television night and day will do down in history–not to mention mathematics, geography, and grammar.
One thing you can say about modern children is at least they’re not childish.
Children may close their ears to advice, but they keep their eyes open to example.
