“Children pay little attention to their parents' teachings, but reproduce their characters faithfully”

“Not fault of teaching spider if little spider pay more attention to catching fly than doing lesson.”

“An alarming number of parents appear to have little confidence in their ability to "teach" their children. We should help parents understand the overriding importance of incidental teaching in the context of warm, consistent companionship. Such caring is usually the greatest teaching, especially if caring means sharing in the activites of the home.”

“The key to successful aging is to pay as little attention to it as possible.”

“The trouble with child training is that parents teach their children not how to behave, but how not to behave.”

“Stories arrest us. Parents use stories to capture the attention of active children. Preachers use stories to capture the attention of sleepy adults.”