In automobile terms, the child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.
– Benjamin Spock
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- When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I reasoned as a child, but when I became a man, I put away childish things. – Holy Bible
- Our parents would not be -˜The best parents in the world’ (to us) if they were not our parents. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- She would let a speeding automobile hit her to show them all how unloved she was. – Lisa Dierbeck
- I have been and always shall be your friend. – The Intrepid Mr Spock
- A child that’s being abused by its parents doesn’t stop loving its parents, it stops loving itself. – Shahida Arabi
- To implant fear in the minds of children is a crime. If parents try to rule the child by fear, then fear rules the child. – E Stanley Jones
- For Parents: Never blame or scold a child for their first mistake after all family is the first school from where a child learns. – Neeraj Bhanot
- Parents, don’t invest in your child’s teaching; invest in your child’s learning. – Steve Ahn
- You have immense power–power to overcome, power to achieve, power to possess, and power to prosper, making you incredibly irresistible. – Anitra SheltonQuinn
- Supply the needs first and the wants later, for one can only obtain true peace, love and joy when one supplies the needs first and not the wants. – David Benedict Zumbo
- Glitter is the herpes of craft supplies. – Demetri Martin
- …to use the little kick of energy which opposition supplies to be more vigorously oneself. – Virginia Woolf
- Remember that -œwhere God guides, He provides. Where He leads, He supplies all needs. – Billy Graham
- I once got lost in a dark woods with no supplies.Struggling to deal with nature, beasts and storms,that was time when I lost my arrogance as human. – Toba Beta
- A butler supplies food to nourish your body, but a writer nourishes your mind through writing. – Debasish Mridha
- Error sometimes supplies the surprise that makes life interesting. – Aimee Liu
- A leader without a team, is a car without steering wheel – Fabrizio Moreira
- I love the wheels, I mean steering wheel. – Amit Kalantri
- [L]ife is more than just steering a course around pain. – Stephen King
- You are the driver steering your own dreams. Choose to knock down whatever crosses your way. – Israelmore Ayivor
- Ain’t no good ever comes of it, if you ain’t steering yourself. – JD Jordan
- We may be floating on Tao, but there is nothing wrong with steering. If Tao is like a river, it is certainly good to know where the rocks are. – MingDao Deng
- Do not let others drive that vehicle, called life, for you. Grab that steering wheel and discover unexplored destinations. – Lakshmy Menon Chatterjee
- Writers will often find themselves steering by stars that are disturbingly in motion. – William Strunk Jr
- She was in control of her life, even though it seemed she wasn’t. All she had to do was take the steering wheel and start driving. – Missy Lyons
- Spanking a child is about the parent not the child. The child will learn more from positive correction than physical manipulation. – Asa Don Brown
- Don’t put your child at risk. Limit unsupervised one-on-one time between your child & another adult or another child. – Carolyn Byers Ruch
- There’s a fine line between child-like -“ learning as a child does, the natural way we learn most stuff -“ and being child-ish. – Robin Hoyle
- Having a child who is struggling doesn’t make you a bad parent, just as being a child who is struggling doesn’t make your child a bad kid. – Ann Douglas
- If you say there is no such thing as morality in absolute terms, then child abuse is not evil, it just may not happen to be your thing. – Rebecca Manley Pippert
- Justice is truth in action.~ BENJAMIN DISRAELI, speech, Feb. 11, 1851 – Benjamin Disraeli
- If parents were as concerened about raising their children as they are about the outcome of their sitcom or sports game, this nation would thrive. – Benjamin Lotter
- The problem with parents is that they’re adults. – Benjamin Alire Senz
- The parents of politics are lack of control and seeking to control. The parents of leadership are influence and trust. – Richie Norton
- Self-esteem wasn’t the issue for my parents or their parents. Survival was their primary goal. – Julia A Boyd
- Many parents preach to their children but do not set good examples. Parents want the children to do as they say, not as they do. – Billy Graham
- I don’t think they’re terrible parents. They love us. I think they’re negligent parents. That’s not the same thing. – Justine Larbalestier
- Patients are almost always preceded by their parents, because no matter how fast an ambulance can drive, terrified parents can drive faster. – John Green
- Some of the things I hated my parents for when I was younger are the same things I love my parents for now that I’m older. – Steve Maraboli