1. It is a mystery why adults expect perfection from children. Few grown-ups can get through a whole
day without making a mistake. - Marcelene Cox
A child's life is like a piece of paper on which every person leaves a mark. - Chinese Proverb
He who teaches children learns more than they do. - German Proverb
Children are likely to live up to what you believe of them. - Lady Bird Johnson
It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men. - Frederick Douglass
"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."
-- Pablo Casals
"A child can ask questions that a wise man cannot answer."
-- Author Unknown
Ideal teachers are those who use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to
cross, then having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create bridges of
their own." -- Nikos Kazantzakis
"They may forget what you said but they will never forget how you made them feel." - Carol Buchner
Life is no brief candle for me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for the moment
and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations." --
George Bernard Shaw
"It is not what is poured into a student that counts but what is planted." -Linda Conway
"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest
accomplishment." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn." -- Benjamin Franklin
Nine-tenths of education is encouragement.
Anatole France
A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary. ~Thomas Carruthers
A teacher's purpose is not to create students in his own image, but to develop students who can
create their own image. ~Author Unknown
Discover wildlife: be a teacher! ~Author Unknown
I just want my kids to love who they are, have happy lives
and find something they want to do and make peace with that.

2. Your job as a parent is to give your kids
not only the instincts and talents to survive,
but help them enjoy their lives.
-Susan Sarandon
Don't demand respect as a parent.
Demand civility and insist on honesty.
But respect is something you must earn-
with kids as well as with adults.
-William Attwood
Affirming words from moms and dads are like light switches.
Speak a word of affirmation at the right moment in a child's life
and it's like lighting up a whole roomful of possibilities.
-Gary Smalley
Making the decision to have a child is momentous.
It is to decide forever
to have your heart go walking around outside your body.
-Elizabeth Stone
The best inheritance a parent can give his children
is a few minutes of his time each day.
-O. A. Battista
If I had my child to raise all over again,
I'd build self-esteem first, and the house later.
I'd finger-paint more, and point the finger less.
I would do less correcting and more connecting.
I'd take my eyes off my watch, and watch with my eyes.
I'd take more hikes and fly more kites.
I'd stop playing serious, and seriously play.
I would run through more fields and gaze at more stars.
I'd do more hugging and less tugging.
-Diane Loomans
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Joseph Joubert

3. When you choose your friends, don’t be short-changed by choosing personality over character
W. Somerset Maugham
Les Brown
Your goals are the road maps that guide you and show you what is possible for your life.
“Success means having the courage, the determination, and the will to become the person
youbelieve you were meant to be.” – George Sheehan
Always be a first-rate version of yourself,
instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
-Judy Garland
Accept everything about yourself, I mean everything,
You are you and that is the beginning and the end,
no apologies, no regrets.
-Clark Moustakas
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether
you are content with your failure.
Abraham Lincoln
Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the
true failure.
George Edward Woodberry
No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted. ~Aesop
When we feel love and kindness toward others, it not only makes others feel loved and cared for, but
it helps us also to develop inner happiness and peace. ~Dalai Lama
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle. ~ Philo
“You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you
choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where
to go...”
― Dr. Seuss, Oh, the Places You'll Go!
~ Few things are more satisfying than seeing your children have teenagers of their own. ~ Doug
Larson