If only they could just read this…

“Home is the place where boys and girls first learn how to limit their wishes, abide by rules, and consider the rights and needs of others.” - Sidonie Gruenberg

“Any problem, big or small, within a family, always seems to start with bad communication. Someone isn’t listening” – Emma Thompson

“It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.” - Colette

“It is a wise father that knows his own child.” - William Shakespeare

“The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.” - Theodore Hesburgh

“Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” - opening line from Anna Karenina; Leo Tolstoy

“Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With no relatives, no support, we’ve put it in an impossible situation.” - Margaret Mead

“In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future.” - Alex Haley

“Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible — the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family.” - Virginia Satir

“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

“Nor need we power or splendor, wide hall or lordly dome; The good, the true, the tender — these form the wealth of home.” - Sarah J. Hale

“At the end of the day, a loving family should find everything forgivable.” ~Mark V. Olsen and Will Sheffer, Big Love, “Easter”

“What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?” - George Eliot

“You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them.” - Desmond Tutu

“In some families, please is described as the magic word. In our house, however, it was sorry.” - Margaret Laurence

“It takes a moment to tell someone you love them, but it takes a lifetime to prove it” ~anonymous 

 “No matter what you’ve done for yourself or for humanity, if you can’t look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what have you really accomplished?” - Elbert Hubbard

“Family quarrels are bitter things. They don’t go by any rules. They’re not like aches or wounds;  they’re more like splits in the skin that won’t heal… “ – F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Home sweet home. This is the place to find happiness. If one doesn’t find it here, one doesn’t find it anywhere.” - M. K. Soni

“Surround yourself with what you love, whether it’s family, pets, keepsakes, music, plants, hobbies, whatever.”  - George Carlin, from How To Stay Young

“It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons.” - Johann Schiller

“Deep inside us, we know what every family therapist knows: the problems between the parents become the problems within the children.” - Roger Gould

“Family is the first school for young children, and parents are powerful models.” - Alice Sterling Honig

“I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father’s protection.” - Sigmund Freud

“A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary.” - Dorothy Canfield Fisher

“Our children are our only hope for the future, but we are their only hope for their present and their future.” - Zig Ziglar

“Family… a group experience of love and support.” - Marianne Williamson

“Our children are watching us live, and what we ARE shouts louder than anything we can say.” - Wilferd A. Peterson

“A friend loves you for your intelligence, a mistress for your charm, but your family’s love is unreasoning; you were born into it and are of its flesh and blood. Nevertheless it can irritate you more than any group of people in the world.” – William Hazlitt

I believe the time we really look big in a child’s eyes is when we go to them and apologize for our mistakes and we say, “I was wrong. Will you forgive me?” - Kevin Leman

“Other things may change us, but we start and end with family.” - Anthony Brandt

“The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any.” – Fred Astaire

“Peace, like charity, begins at home.” -Franklin D. Roosevelt

“A child tells in the street what its father and mother say at home.” -The Talmud

“I didn’t want to repeat my parents’ life. Reason? I saw in their life’s routine” ~anonymous

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