Children Are Blessings

Behold, children are a heritage from the LORD; the fruit of the womb is a reward. - Psalm 127:3

Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands. - Anne Frank

Making the decision to have a child - it's momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking outside your body. - Elizabeth Stone

You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance. - Franklin P. Jones

If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do well matters very much. - Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One is roots; the other, wings. - Hodding Carter

While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about. - Angela Schwindt

There's nothing that can help you understand your beliefs more than trying to explain them to an inquisitive child. - Frank A. Clark

Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing up is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing. - Phyllis Diller

Anyone who thinks the art of conversation is dead ought to tell a child to go to bed. - Robert Gallagher

It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men. - Frederick Douglass

If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others. - Haim Ginott

Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them. - Goethe