Betray Quote by Samuel Johnson

“Sometimes it is very difficult to keep in mind the fact that the parents, too, have reasons for what they do-- have reasons, locked…

— Virginia M. Axline

Many parents make the mistake of giving love and approval to their children only when their children do something that they want them to…

— Brian Tracy

“...The life of the parents is the only thing that makes good children. Parents should be very patient and ‘saintlike’ to their children. They…

— Elder Porphyrios

“Some children perceive their parents as inconsistently available. It could be because the parents are unavoidably focused on pressing life situations or on their…

— Leslie Becker-Phelps

sometimes the very faults of parents produce a tendency to opposite virtues in their children.

— Maria Edgeworth

When their children fail to charm others, few parents can stay neutral.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Of some forty families I have been able to observe, I know hardly four in which the parents do not act in such a…

— Andre Gide

Parents learn the uses of power and its limits. They can insist on certain outward behavior but cannot change inner attitudes. They can require…

— Philip Yancey

Working parents bring a certain amount of guilt to their relationship with their children.

— Judy Sheindlin

“Children who are neglected by their parents—despite their parents’ best intentions—grow up to feel insignificant, insecure, unloved and—more than anything else—angry. To make children…

— Shmuel Boteach

When parents see their children's problems as opportunities to build the relationship instead of as negative, burdensome irritations, it totally changes the nature of…

— Stephen Covey

The relationship between parents and children, but especially between mothers and daughters, is tremendously powerful, scarcely to be comprehended in any rational way.

— Joyce Carol Oates