Child Quote by Faye Wattleton

Public education has served as a check on the power of parents, and this is another powerful reason for maintaining it.

— John Goodlad

By losing my external things, I found myself. I found something very powerful, very permanent, that I could have with me all the time.

— Isha Judd

Family is the first school for young children, and parents are powerful models.

— Alice Sterling Honig

The sick-room becomes the scene of intense convictions; and among these, none, it seems to me, is more distinct and powerful than that of…

— Harriet Martineau

Cultural expectations shade and color the images that parents-to-be form. The baby product ads, showing a woman serenely holding her child, looking blissfully and…

— Ellen Galinsky

“If you do not influence them, someone else will. If you are not shaping their values, others will do it for you. The issue…

— David Jeremiah

Self-acceptance begins in infancy, with the influence of your parents and siblings and other important people.

— Brian Tracy

If we can get kids talking about conservation and doing it, they can have a great influence on their parents by lecturing them and…

— Kevin Richardson

“Just about all he could find in its favor was that it paid well and liberated children from the pernicious influence of their parents.”

— Joseph Heller

Companies know that children have disproportionate influence over their parents' purse strings.

— Sucheta Dalal

It is impossible to overestimate the influence of parents who understand the hearts of their children. Research shows that during the most important transitions…

— Robert D. Hales

If you look at any superior athlete, you will find a strong parental influence. Parents introduce their children to a sport, and then they…

— Ivan Lendl