The document contains several quotes about children and parenting. It discusses how children are impacted by their environment and parents. Children initially love their parents but may later judge them. Raising children requires battling worries to help them develop into their best selves. Parents must spend time with their children and make them feel loved and valued. Overall, the quotes emphasize the important role of parents in nurturing children.

2. “ Whatever they grow up to be, they are still our children, and the one most important of all the things we can give to them is unconditional love. Not a love that depends on anything at all except that they are our children.”

3. “ Children are like wet cement. Whatever falls on them makes an impression.”

4. “ Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes, they forgive them”

5. “ Children are the world's most valuable resource and its best hope for the future”

6. “ Children will not remember you for the material things you provided but for the feeling that you cherished them.”

7. “ The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential... these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.”

8. “ The child must know that he is a miracle, that since the beginning of the world there hasn't been, and until the end of the world there will not be, another child like him.

9. “ While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about.”

10. “ Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven.”

11. “ A Daughter is a Little Girl who grows up to be a Friend”

12. “ Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.”

13. “ We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up.”

14. “ If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.”

15. “ Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.”

16. “ Loving a child doesn't mean giving in to all his whims; to love him is to bring out the best in him, to teach him to love what is difficult.”

17. “ He who teaches children learns more than they do”

18. “ We call a child's mind "small" simply by habit; perhaps it is larger than ours is, for it can take in almost anything without effort”

19. “ The easiest way to teach children the value of money is to borrow some from them”

20. “ Never underestimate a child's ability to get into more trouble .”

21. “ If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others.”

22. “ Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.”

23. “ Children are the anchors that hold a mother to life”

24. “ Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves”

25. “ When men talk about defense, they always claim to be protecting women and children, but they never ask the women and children what they think”

26. “ Humor helps us to think out of the box. The average child laughs about 400 times per day, the average adult laughs only 15 times per day. What happened to the other 385 laughs?

27. “ To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while.”

28. “ Children desperately need to know - and to hear in ways they understand and remember - that they're loved and valued by mom and dad”

29. “ Once the children were in the house the air became more vivid and more heated; every object in the house grew more alive”

30. “ Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they are going to catch you in next.”

31. “ A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.”

32. “ When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.”

33. “ The children despise their parents until the age of 40, when they suddenly become just like them-thus preserving the system.”

34. “ Raising children is an uncertain thing; success is reached only after a life of battle and worry”

35. “ Children are our most valuable resources.”

36. “ Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.”

37. “ Setting a good example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age.”

38. “ Children need models rather than critics.”

39. “ If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.”

40. “ Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them.”

41. “ It's funny that those things your kids did that got on your nerves seem so cute when your grandchildren do them”

42. “ Children learn to smile from their parents.”

43. “ The best thing to spend on your children is your time.”

44. “ The law of love could be best understood and learned through little children”

45. “ Always kiss your children goodnight, even if they're already asleep .”

46. Quran Wealth and children are an adornment of the life of this world; and the ever-abiding, the good works, are better with your Lord in reward and better in expectation. Al-Kahf (46) From EFFAT SALEH http://www.slideshare.net/effat57