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quotes[0]='You don\'t really understand human nature unless you know why a child on a merry-go-round will wave at his parents every time around - and why his parents will always wave back.  William D. Tammeus'

quotes[1]='Always kiss your children goodnight - even if they\'re already asleep.  ~H. Jackson Brown, Jr.'

quotes[2]='Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children, and no theories.  ~John Wilmot'

quotes[3]='To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while.  ~Josh Billings'

quotes[4]='Your children need your presence more than your presents.  ~Jesse Jackson'

quotes[5]='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'

quotes[6]='Don\'t worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.  ~Robert Fulghum'

quotes[7]='Children are a great comfort in your old age - and they help you reach it faster, too.  ~Lionel Kauffman'

quotes[8]='If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.  ~Abigail Van Buren'

quotes[9]='The quickest way for a parent to get a child\'s attention is to sit down and look comfortable.  ~Lane Olinghouse'

quotes[10]='Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.  ~Roger Lewin'

quotes[11]='There are two lasting bequests we can give our children.  One is roots.  The other is wings.  ~Hodding Carter, Jr.'

quotes[12]='Sing out loud in the car even, or especially, if it embarrasses your children.  ~Marilyn Penland'

quotes[13]='If your children spend most of their time in other people\'s houses, you\'re lucky; if they all congregate at your house, you\'re blessed.  ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic\'s Notebook, 1966'

quotes[14]='If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others.  ~Haim Ginott'

quotes[15]='There is only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it.  ~Chinese Proverb'

quotes[16]='Mother Nature, in her infinite wisdom, has instilled within each of us a powerful biological instinct to reproduce; this is her way of assuring that the human race, come what may, will never have any disposable income.  ~Dave Barry'

quotes[17]='The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.  ~Benjamin Spock, Dr. Spock\'s Baby and Child Care'

quotes[18]='When my kids become wild and unruly, I use a nice, safe playpen.  When they\'re finished, I climb out.  ~Erma Bombeck'

quotes[19]='The hardest part of raising a child is teaching them to ride bicycles.  A shaky child on a bicycle for the first time needs both support and freedom.  The realization that this is what the child will always need can hit hard.  ~Sloan Wilson'

quotes[20]='Was there ever a grandparent, bushed after a day of minding noisy youngsters, who hasn\'t felt the Lord knew what He was doing when He gave little children to young people?  ~Joe E. Wells'

quotes[21]='Humans are the only animals that have children on purpose with the exception of guppies, who like to eat theirs.  ~P.J. O\'Rourk'

quotes[22]='The one thing children wear out faster than shoes is parents.  ~John J. Plomp'

quotes[23]='The secret of dealing successfully with a child is not to be its parent.  ~Mell Lazarus'

quotes[24]='When you teach your son, you teach your son\'s son.  ~The Talmud'

quotes[25]='Always end the name of your child with a vowel, so that when you yell, the name will carry.  ~Bill Cosby'

quotes[26]='A child, like your stomach, doesn\'t need all you can afford to give it.  ~Frank A. Clark'

quotes[27]='The trouble with being a parent is that by the time you are experienced, you are unemployed.  ~Author Unknown'

quotes[28]='In bringing up children, spend on them half as much money and twice as much time.  ~Author Unknown'

quotes[29]='If your kids are giving you a headache, follow the directions on the aspirin bottle, especially the part that says \'keep away from children.\'  ~Susan Savannah'

quotes[30]='What\'s done to children, they will do to society.  ~Karl Menninger'

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