Groucho Marx Quotes

Luckily, my children love broccoli, and although we sometimes enter into UN-like negotiations about how many 'trees' they need to eat before they can partake of ice cream, it is a vegetable that they tend to embrace.

I'm not a goody-two-shoes. I'm just a father with four children.

Well-mannered children could be conceived if the parents were well-mannered.

Thus parents, by humouring and cockering them when little, corrupt the principles of nature in their children, and wonder afterwards to taste the bitter waters, when they themselves have poison'd the fountain.

Parents who indulge themselves 'in moderation' may have children who indulge themselves to excess.

In spite of what youngsters think, parents do not get a sneaky thrill out of punishing their children.

We as parents are our children's first and best role models, and this is particularly true when it comes to their health. ...We can't lie around on the couch eating French fries and candy bars and expect our kids to eat carrots and run around the block.

A wretched parent who claims obedience from his children, without first doing his duty by them, excites nothing but contempt.

When a child is given to his parents, a crown is made for that child in Heaven, and woe to the parents who raise a child without consciousness of that eternal crown!

Caring about the welfare of children and shaming parents are mutually exclusive endeavors.

Children grow out of childhood, but parents never grow out of parenthood.

THE most widespread form of child abuse in the United States is parents sending children to the government to be educated.

This is our first task-caring for our children. It's our first job. If we don't get that right, we don't get anything right. That's how, as a society, we will be judged.

When the history of guilt is written, parents who refuse their children money will be right up there in the Top Ten.

It is from God that parents receive their children, and it is to God that they should lead them.

The secret to raising children is to love them... And teach them to operate in a way you can tolerate them the best.

Because my parents had given me tremendous respect, trust, and freedom as a child, I knew how to take responsibility for myself. If you're constantly being told "No, don't do that" or "We don't trust you," you can't develop that responsibility.

There is no relation more intimately personal than that of parents to the child they have brought into the world; and there is therefore no relationship in which the community should be slower to interfere.

Everything seems to take on a new meaning when you become a parent and you put yourself in the shoes of the parent, not the shoes of the child.

It is the function of parents to see that their children habitually experience the true consequences of their conduct.

We grow because the clamorous, permanent presence of our children forces us to put their needs before ours. We grow because our love for our children urges us to change as nothing else in our lives has the power to do. We grow (if we're willing to grow, that is: not every parent is willing) because being a parent helps us stop being a child.

It should be fun introducing kids to fruits and vegetables. If you start young, it will be something that they'll attach to really quickly.

A parent who has never apologized to his children is a monster. If he's always apologizing, his children are monsters.

Good discipline requires time. When we have no time to give our children, or no time that we are willing to give, we don't even observe them closely enough to become aware of when their need for our disciplinary assistance is expressed subtley.

Disobedient parents are a great trouble to their children.