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Topic·Raising kids✕clear

For the hand that rocks the cradle Is the hand that rules the world.

William Ross Wallace

1865

★ 6.9

It takes a village to raise a child.

1984

★ 6.3

Comedy special · Comedy (stand up)

A bunch of girls like: "You don’t need no man to help you raise no child. You don't need no man." Shut the fuck up with the bullshit. Yeah, you could do it without a man but that don’t mean it’s to be done. Shit, you could drive a car with your feet if you want to. That don’t make it a good fuckin' idea.

Bigger & Blacker · 1999

★ 5.4

Treatise · Political literature · Philosophical literature

He that will have his Son have a Respect for him and his Orders, must himself have a great Reverence for his Son.

Some Thoughts Concerning Education · 1693

★ 3.7

I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want, and then advise them to do it.

1955

★ 3.6

At three years of age, the child's whole emotional life plan has been laid down, his emotional disposition set. At that age, the parents have already determined for him whether he is to grow into a happy person, wholesome and good-natured, whether he is to be a whining, complaining neurotic, an anger-driven, vindictive, over-bearing slave driver, or one whose every move in life is definitely controlled by fear.

1927

★ 3.4

Scripture · Religious literature

And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.

Ephesians 6:4

62

★ 2.1

Scripture · Religious literature

Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

Proverbs 22:6

686 BC

★ 1.9

The more people have studied different methods of bringing up children, the more they have come to the conclusion that what good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is usually best, after all.

The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care · 1946

★ 1.9

Psychological literature

If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.

1939

★ 1.8

Scripture · Religious literature

He who spares his rod hates his son, But he who loves him disciplines him promptly.

Proverbs 13:24

686 BC

★ 1.3

Comedy special · Comedy (stand up)

You got to get your kid on or your groove on. You can’t get both on at the same time.

Bigger & Blacker · 1999

★ 1.3