The first duty to children is to make them happy. If you have not made them so, you have wronged them. No other good they may get can make up for that.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Children are excellent observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves.
I think the best thing that you can do with your kids is to talk to them like they're human beings, not like they're children and they don't know what they're doing.
I know a lot of kids that if you don't know how to deal with them, you lose them. They don't come ready-made.
The worst mistake you can make with children is to talk to them in a condescending, patronising way and think that you can teach them something. You have to understand that it is you who will be learning from them. You have to get into their world and see things from their perspective.
If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others.
Children are a house's enemy. They don't mean to be - they just can't help it. It's their enthusiasm, their energy, their naturally destructive tendencies.
I don't want my children to have any kind of ego or entitlement because of what I do. I want them to be good people, and we fight every day so that they'll be that way.
You have to really respect what your kids are doing with their kids and how they're raising them. You can't push your way into areas where you shouldn't be saying anything. You have to always remember they're not your own kids. Play with them, love them, spoil them to death - then hand them back.
The most important thing with children is to give them your time. Actually, that's all that matters.
Respect your kids. They are their own people. I think sometimes we expect kids to be perfect when we're not perfect.