Thursday Thought

"Children are likely to live up to what you believe of them."
-Lady Bird Johnson, former U.S. First Lady

Thursday Thought

"Don't worry that your children never listen to you,
worry that they are always watching you."
-Robert Fulghum

Thursday Thought

"To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children, to leave the world a better place, to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived.
This is to have succeeded.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Thursday Thought

We teach our children all about life...
They teach us what life is all about.

Thursday Thought

Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow is yet to come. We have only today.

If we help our children to be what they should be today, they will have the necessary courage to face life with greater love.

-Mother Theresa

Thursday Thought

They may forget what you said,
but they never forget how you made them feel.
-Carl Buechner

Thursday Thought

"The work will wait while you show the child the rainbow,

but the rainbow won't wait while you do the work."

-author unknown

Thursday Thought

"There are no seven wonders of the world in the eyes of a child.

There are seven million."

-Walt Streightiff

Thursday Thought

Lead a life so that others will remember you not by your wealth or position, but by the content of your character.

-Martin Luther King, Jr.

Thursday Thought

"I've learned that the more a child feels valued,

the better his values will be."

-from the book Live, Learn, & Pass It On

Thursday Thought

Let your thoughts be planted in rich soil and let your actions stand tall in a child’s eyes. Just as fruit does not fall far from the tree, children do not stray far from their heroes.

-Author Unknown

Thursday Thought

20 minutes a day is the recommended amount of time to read to your child but I personally love the following recommendation...

"Read! Read! Read! until you think your lips are going to fall off -- and then... read one more!!"

-Bev Bos

Reading to your child WILL HAVE a MAJOR POSITIVE IMPACT on his/her future school success.

Thursday Thought

"Children need your presence more than they need your presents."