The document contains quotes about children and parenting from various authors. Margaret Mead emphasizes teaching children how to think rather than what to think. Johann von Goethe notes that age does not make us childish, rather it reveals our inner child. Bill Ayers advises loving children for who they are rather than constantly trying to correct them. Albert Einstein suggests reading fairy tales to make children more intelligent.

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

5. “Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.”
Margaret Mead

7. “Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

9. “Your kids require you most of all to love them for who they are, not to spend your whole time trying to correct them.”
Bill Ayers

13. “When a child is locked in the bathroom with water running and he says he's doing nothing but the dog is barking, call 911. ”
Erma Bombeck

15. “If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read
them more fairy tales.”
Albert Einstein

17. “Children see magic because they look for it.”
Christopher Moore

19. “Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy.”
Robert A. Heinlein

21. “Before I got married I had six theories about raising children; now, I have six children and no theories.”
John Wilmot

22. “Nothing you do for children is ever wasted.”
Garrison Keillor, Leaving

24. “We must teach our children to dream with their eyes open.”
Harry Edwards

26. “ Children do not care how much you know until they know how much you care “
Teddy Roosevelt

29. “A baby is God's opinion that the
world should go on.”
Carl Sandburg

33. “When we are no longer
children we are already
dead”
Constantin Brancusi
June 1, 2014