Margaret Fuller Quotes

Every word, movement and action has an effect. No other person or outside force has a greater influence on a child than the parent.

Good parents have children who do terrible things and vice-versa.

A child's first teacher is its mother.

If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.

There's a moment in time where kids really don't want to hear anything from their parents.

Parents cannot expect advice to have the same force upon their children as experience has upon themselves.

Whatever the parents are doing, the kids will follow suit.

For me, as much about being a parent as it is about being a child.

The footsteps a child follows are most likely to be the ones his parents thought they covered up.

Is the parent better than the child into whom he has cast his ripened being? Whence, then, this worship of the past?

Children need parents who will let them grow up to be themselves, but parents often have personal agendas they try to impose on their children.

How can children credit the assertions of parents, which their own eyes show them to be false? Few parents act in such a manner as much to enforce their maxims by the credit of their lives

I think too often in our society parents, who may have good impulses, overreach and try to mold and shape and direct their child.

Children have a lot more to worry about from the parents who raised them than from the books they read.

In intimate family life, there comes a moment when children, willingly or no, become the judges of their parents.

The most important influence on a child is the character of its parents, rather than this or that single event.

If parents would only realize how they bore their children.

Marriage and conjugal love are by their nature ordained toward the procreation and education of children. Children are really the supreme gift of marriage and contribute in the highest degree to their parents' welfare.

All the time a person is a child he is both a child and learning to be a parent. After he becomes a parent he becomes predominantly a parent reliving childhood.

As a father, you immediately become uncool, especially the older they get. The older you get, it's inevitable that, as cool as you think you are, you're probably just as lame in your kids' eyes.

Do you remember when you were 10 or 11 years old and you really thought your folks were the best? They were completely omniscient and you took their word for everything. And then you got older and you went through this hideous age when suddenly they were the devil, they were bullies, and they didn't know anything.

I've had three of my own children and spent my professional life thinking about children. And yet I still find my relation to my children deeply puzzling.

Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.

If you bungle raising your children, nothing else matters in life.

Parents still have a big influence on their kids - just ask any therapist. No, really, I think the parent is the most important influence on children: It's how they learn to love and treat other people.