"Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book."

--Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC)

"First time is funny,

Second time is just silly,

Third time's a spanking."

the grandmother in kira-kira by Cynthia Kadohata

I don't think I have the quote exactly right, but close enough.

"Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them."

James Baldwin

"Students are mysterious creatures with amazing powers"


Rookie Teaching for Dummies

(I wish I'd bought stock in the Dummies series... but if I was smart enough to do that, I wouldn't need the books...)

"Adults are only obsolete children."


Dr. Seuss

"I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”

Maya Angelou


"The child becomes largely what he is taught; hence we must watch what we teach, and how we live.”


Jane Addams (1860-1935)


“Try not to become a man of success, but rather, try to become a man of value.”

Albert Einstein

"The most revolutionary thing anybody can do is to raise good, honest and generous children who will question the answers of people who say the answer is violence."


Colman McCarthy
(my new Hero)

"In raising my children, I have lost my mind but found my soul."


Lisa T. Shepherd



"Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don't."


Pete Seeger



borrowed without asking, but with the best of intentions, from:
http://doihavetocallitablog.blogspot.com/

"We never know the love of our parents until we have become parents."


Henry Ward Beecher
American Clergyman, 19th Century


And we never know how crazy we will drive our children until our own parents retire, move to a smaller place, whine about missing their grandchildren, and somehow find our new phone number that was supposed to be unlisted!