Celebrate Quote by Tom Rath

Children internalize their parents' unhappiness. Fortunately, they absorb our contentment just as readily.

— Lucille Ball

Parents have too little respect for their children, just as the children have too much for the parents.

— Ivy Compton-Burnett

Children aren't happy without something to ignore, And that's what parents were created for.

— Ogden Nash

Parents need to be more accepting of who their kids are and less concerned about what society thinks they need to be.

— Neil Patrick Harris

Children need parents who will let them grow up to be themselves, but parents often have personal agendas they try to impose on their…

— Harold S. Kushner

Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.

— Ogden Nash

“effective parents expect their children to rise to life’s challenges (as you know, there are plenty!) and to respect the rules and limits that…

— Thomas W. Phelan

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

Parents' ability to survive a child's unabating needs, wants, and demands...varies enormously. Some people can give and give....Whether children are good or bad, brilliant…

— Stella Chess

We want the children to conform; we want to control their minds, to shape their conduct, their way of living, so that they will…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

We want our children to fit in and to stand out. We rarely address the conflict between these goals.

— Ellen Goodman

Parents have to instill the right principles in their children, but then it's up to the children to live up to those principles.

— Mary Lydon Simonsen