Asks Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Furnish an example, stop preaching, stop shielding, don't prevent self-reliance and initiative, allow your children to develop along thier own lines.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Let us protect our children; and let us not allow them to grow up into emptiness and nothingness, to the avoidance of good hard…

— Friedrich Frobel

Dear Lord, make me a better parent. Teach me to understand my children, to listen patiently to what they have to say and to…

— Gary Myers

Praise your children openly, reprove them secretly.

— Anonymous

I don't want to shield kids from reality.

— Evangeline Lilly

So what should we say when children complete a task—say, math problems—quickly and perfectly? Should we deny them the praise they have earned? Yes.…

— Anonymous

There's a moment in time where kids really don't want to hear anything from their parents.

— Kevin Costner

It's the easiest way to stay in the game: By helping the younger kids, they're gonna preach for you.

— George Clinton

If your children want to alter society, listen to their reasons and the idealism behind them. Don't crush them with some clever remark straight…

— Prince Charles

I shouldn't have to be preparing my children that the world is going to be unfair to them for the rest of their lives.

— Killer Mike

Don't let the children watch TV until they know how to read, or else all they'll know how to do is cuss, fight, and…

— Prince