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

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

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

8. “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

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

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

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

22. “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

24. “I like dogs Big dogs Little dogs Fat dogs Doggy dogs Old dogs Puppy dogs I like dogs” Margaret Wise Brown

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

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

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

37. “When we are no longer children we are already dead” Constantin Brancusi 1 June 2013 My sister and me My cousin and me Photos : The new generation in our family