Raising children

Here are insightful quotes on the subject of children:

“Your children are the greatest gift God will give to you, and their souls the heaviest responsibility. Take time and teach them to have faith in God. Be a person in whom they can have faith. When you’re old, nothing else you’ve done will have mattered as much.”—Lisa Wingate

“Accept children the way we accept trees—with gratitude, because they are a blessing, but don’t have expectations or desires. You don’t expect trees to change—you love them as they are.”—Isabel Allende

“It’s a fundamental truth that the responsibilities of motherhood cannot be successfully delegated. Not to day-care centers, schools, nurseries nor babysitters. We become enamored with men’s theories, such as the idea of preschool training outside the home for young children. Not only does this put added pressure on the budget, but it also places young children in an environment away from their mothers’ influence.

Formative years

“It is a mother’s influence during the crucial formative years that forms a child’s character. Home is the place where a child learns faith, feels love, and thereby learns from his or her mother’s loving example to choose righteousness.”—Ezra Taft Benson

“Live so that when children think of fairness, caring and integrity, they think of you.” —H. Jackson Brown Jr.

“There can be no keener revelation of a society’s soul than the way in which it treats its children.” —Nelson Mandela

“If we are to teach real peace in this world, we shall have to begin with the children.”—Mahatma Gandhi

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