Words: An Incredible Grandchild Gift
Words are powerful free gifts that fortify your grandchildren their entire lives...and represent the secret to many grandparent legacies. Children and grandchildren develop personal character traits from the examples that adults display in their presence. Use words of encouragement, hope, integrity, faith, and good humor...and your grandchildrens' lives will be positively affected. And, despite that words are FREE...their power is highly underutilized by grandparents and parents everywhere. In fact, when words are unchecked, they are the means by which our worst character flaws are passed to forward generations. Peruse the quotes below about grandparenting and grandchildren for positive, inspirational ideas. Or read on about the power of words and how your life can be enriched with a few secrets...
Right now, think about a few moments in your life that were punctuated by a cherished gift of words from a loved-one, mentor, grandparent, or simply someone you respect. What impact did these words have in creating a bond to that person? In defining your strengths? And guiding your life's purpose?
Words can build you up, fortify your positive beliefs, and rally to your defense in troubled times for the rest of your years.
Yes, treat your words with great respect. Especially when little ears receive them.
For, we all have all received a few negative words over the years as well. I hope you've been successful in filtering those out!
If not, take action to do so. And, don't do it alone. There is an amazingly simple and effective method to put a life coach in your ear whenever & wherever you want...I highly recommend the Think Right Now products to supercharge your mental immunity from negative words!
To empower others through your words is a beautiful gift. Teach your children & grandchildren to develop their own filters. And, you must remain vigilant to protect children from the jaded views & opinions of many.
I was amazed in pulling together the child, grandchild, and family-themed quotes here how many cynical, anti-family & selfish quotes are out there.
Perhaps simply a reflection of the millions of opinions of humankind, the negative quotes are hidden among the positive ones. Eye-opening really.
So, here anyway, I’ve tried to avoid capturing any negativity in compiling the quotes below.
I hope you enjoy them for leisure reading, scrapbook ideas, or to find favorites. Write your favorites down! Perhaps they represent keys to your unique spark.
Let your favorite quotes walk around with you for a while. Internalize them. Why do they resonate with you in particular?
Following some reflection, translate your favorite quotes into key life lessons & philosophies. How can you then transfer your learnings to your grandchildren?
Something they might even remember you by, decades from this very moment.
Perhaps there are a few gems here that you’ll connect with. If so, I’d love to hear from you and/or send me your favorite quotes to add. And, If you have a favorite experience or ideas on how to use quotes in your grandparent-grandchild relationship, please be sure to share the magic!
Enjoy!
A garden of Love grows in a Grandmother's heart.
Author Unknown
A grandmother is a little bit parent, a little bit teacher, and a little bit best friend. Author Unknown
Grandchildren are the dots that connect the lines from generation to generation.
Lois Wyse
Grandchildren don't stay young forever, which is good because Pop-pops have only so many horsey rides in them.
Gene Perret
A house needs a grandma in it. Louisa May Alcott
Grandma always made you feel she had been waiting to see just you all day and now the day was complete.
Marcy DeMaree
Grandma serves kisses, counsel and cookies daily.
Author Unknown
Grandmas are moms with lots of frosting.
Author Unknown
Grandmas don't just say "that's nice" -- they reel back and roll their eyes and throw up their hands and smile. You get your money's worth out of grandmas.
Author unknown
Grandma's heart is a Patchwork of Love.
Author Unknown
Grandmas hold our tiny hands for just a little while, but our hearts forever.
Author Unknown
A child needs a grandparent, anybody's grandparent, to grow a little more securely into an unfamiliar world.
Charles and Ann Morse
A garden of Love grows in a Grandmother's heart.
Author Unknown
Before you were conceived I wanted you
Before you were born I loved you
Before you were here an hour I would die for you
This is the miracle of life. Maureen Hawkins
A grandmother is a little bit parent, a little bit teacher, and a little bit best friend.
Author Unknown
How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these. George Washington Carver
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. Harry Truman
A Grandmother is a safe haven.
Suzette Haden Elgin
A Grandmother is a special person who causes a joyful happening in the heart of a child.
Author Unknown
An hour with your grandchildren can make you feel young again. Anything longer than that, and you start to age quickly.
Gene Perret
Few things are more delightful than grandchildren fighting over your lap.
Doug Larson
Grandchildren are God's way of compensating us for growing old.
Mary H. Waldrip
Grandmas never run out of hugs or cookies.
Author Unknown
Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it. Anais Nin
We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own. Ben Sweetland
Grandmother - a wonderful mother with lots of practice.
Author Unknown
Grandmother-grandchild relationships are simple. Grandmas are short on criticism and long on love.
Author Unknown
Grandparents are a delightful blend of laughter, caring deeds, wonderful stories and Love.
Author Unknown
Grandparents are similar to a piece of string - handy to have around and easily wrapped around the fingers of their grandchildren.
Author Unknown
Grandparents are there to help the child get into mischief they haven't thought of yet.
Gene Perret
I like to do nice things for my grandchildren - like buy them those toys I've always wanted to play with.
Gene Perret
A father's goodness is higher than the mountain, a mother's goodness deeper than the sea.
Japanese Proverb
No one knows how children will turn out; a great tree often springs from a tender plant.
Norwegian proverb
Parents who are afraid to put their foot down usually have children who tread on their toes.
Chinese Proverb
It takes a village to raise a child. African proverb
One generation plants the trees; another gets the shade.
Chinese Proverb
A person soon learns how little he knows when a child begins to ask questions.
Richard L. Evans
Affection without sentiment, authority without cruelty, discipline without aggression, humor without ridicule, sacrifice without obligation, companionship without possessiveness.
William E. Blatz
Affirming words from moms and dads are like light switches. Speak a word of affirmation at the right moment in a child's life and it's like lighting up a whole roomful of possibilities.
Gary Smalley
Always kiss your children goodnight - even if they're already asleep.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children, and no theories.
John Wilmot
Children keep us in check. Their laughter prevents our hearts from hardening. Their dreams ensure we never lose our drive to make ours a better world. They are the greatest disciplinarians known to mankind.
Queen Rania of Jordan, Hello Magazine
Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.
Charles R. Swindoll
Don't demand respect as a parent. Demand civility and insist on honesty. But respect is something you must earn -- with kids as well as with adults.
William Attwood
God sends children to enlarge our hearts, and make us unselfish and full of kindly sympathies and affections.
Mary Howitt
I looked on childrearing not only as a work of love and duty but as a profession that was fully interesting and challenging as any honourable profession in the world and one that demanded the best that I could bring to it.
Rose Kennedy
If I had my child to raise all over again,
I'd build self-esteem first, and the house later.
I'd finger-paint more, and point the finger less.
I would do less correcting and more connecting.
I'd take my eyes off my watch, and watch with my eyes.
I'd take more hikes and fly more kites.
I'd stop playing serious, and seriously play.
I would run through more fields and gaze at more stars.
I'd do more hugging and less tugging.
Diane Loomans, from "If I Had My Child To Raise Over Again"
If you have never been hated by your child you have never been a parent.
Bette Davis
There is a wonderful mythical law of nature that the three things we crave most in life -- happiness, freedom, and peace of mind -- are always attained by giving them to someone else. Peyton Conway March
We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give. Winston Churchill
If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.
Abigail Van Buren
I'm moved by contraries, by opposites, the strength that was my mother's eyes, the beauty of my father's hands.
Judith Jamison
In spite of the six thousand manuals on child raising in the bookstores, child raising is still a dark continent and no one really knows anything. You just need a lot of love and luck - and, of course, courage.
Bill Cosby
It's not only children who grow. Parents do too. As much as we watch to see what our children do with their lives, they are watching us to see what we do with ours. I can't tell my children to reach for the sun. All I can do is reach for it, myself.
Joyce Maynard
Life affords no greater responsibility, no greater privilege, than the raising of the next generation.
C. Everet Koop, M.D.
Love is the chain whereby to bind a child to its parents.
Abraham Lincoln
Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.
Elizabeth Stone
Many have forgotten this truth, but you must not forget it. You remain responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
One who walks the road with love will never walk the road alone.
C. T. Davis
Parenthood, its not a job. It's an adventure!
Author Unknown
A grandmother is a mother who has a second chance.
Author Unknown
A grandmother pretends she doesn't know who you are on Halloween.
Erma Bombeck
Parents can tell but never teach, unless they practice what they preach.
Arnold Glasow
A grand adventure is about to begin.
Winnie the Pooh
Think not forever of yourselves, O Chiefs, nor of your own generation. Think of continuing generations of our families, think of our grandchildren and of those yet unborn, whose faces are coming from beneath the ground.
Peacemaker, founder of the Iroquois Confederacy, (ca. 1000 AD)
Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands. Anne Frank
Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction. Anne Sullivan
It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place. Colette
Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted. Garrison Keillor
Children are our most valuable natural resource. Herbert Hoover
There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One is roots; the other, wings. Hodding Carter
If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do well matters very much. Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them. James Baldwin
For nothing is fixed, forever and forever and forever, it is not fixed; the earth is always shifting, the light is always changing, the sea does not cease to grind down rock. Generations do not cease to be born, and we are responsible to them because we are the only witnesses they have. The sea rises, the light fails, lovers cling to each other, and children cling to us. The moment we cease to hold each other, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out. James Baldwin
I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce and agriculture in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain. John Adams
Your children are not your children. / They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. Kahlil Gibran
You can understand and relate to most people better if you look at them -- no matter how old or impressive they may be -- as if they are children. For most of us never really grow up or mature all that much -- we simply grow taller. O, to be sure, we laugh less and play less and wear uncomfortable disguises like adults, but beneath the costume is the child we always are, whose needs are simple, whose daily life is still best described by fairy tales. Leo Rosten
When I approach a child, he inspires in me two sentiments; tenderness for what he is, and respect for what he may become. Louis Pasteur
Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father! Lydia Maria Child
Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you. Robert Fulghum
Parents often talk about the younger generation as if they didn't have anything to do with it. Haim Ginott
If you as parents cut corners, your children will too. If you lie, they will too. If you spend all your money on yourselves and tithe no portion of it for charities, colleges, churches, synagogues, and civic causes, your children won't either. And if parents snicker at racial and gender jokes, another generation will pass on the poison adults still have not had the courage to snuff out. Marian Wright Edelman
If we don’t stand up for children, then we don’t stand for much. Marian Wright Edelman
Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist. Micheal Levine
All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. Pablo Picasso
Bitter are the tears of a child: Sweeten them.
Deep are the thoughts of a child: Quiet them.
Sharp is the grief of a child: Take it from him.
Soft is the heart of a child: Do not harden it. Pamela Glenconner
Family faces are magic mirrors. Looking at people who belong to us, we see the past, present, and future. Gail Lumet Buckley
You don't really understand human nature unless you know why a child on a merry-go-round will wave at his parents every time around - and why his parents will always wave back. William D. Tammeus
To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while. Josh Billings
If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement and mystery of the world we live in. Rachel Carson
If I had influence with the good fairy who is supposed to preside over the christening of all children, I should ask that her gift to each child in the world be a sense of wonder so indestructible that it would last throughout life. Rachel Carson
Too often we give our children answers to remember rather than problems to solve. Roger Lewin
Home is the place where boys and girls first learn how to limit their wishes, abide by rules, and consider the rights and needs of others. Sidonie Gruenberg
To value his own good opinion, a child has to feel that he is a worthwhile person. He has to have confidence in himself as an individual. Sidonie Gruenberg
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother. Theodore Hesburgh
People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth. Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don't even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child -- our own two eyes. All is a miracle. Thich Nhat Hanh
Family life is full of major and minor crises -- the ups and downs of health, success and failure in career, marriage, and divorce -- and all kinds of characters. It is tied to places and events and histories. With all of these felt details, life etches itself into memory and personality. It's difficult to imagine anything more nourishing to the soul. Thomas Moore
A young child is, indeed, a true scientist, just one big question mark. What? Why? How? I never cease to marvel at the recurring miracle of growth, to be fascinated by the mystery and wonder of this brave enthusiasm. Victoria Wagner
It is a wise father that knows his own child. William Shakespeare
In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future. Alex Haley
The family is the nucleus of civilization. Ariel & Will Durant
A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on. Carl Sandburg
Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
Chinese Proverb
The family is one of nature's masterpieces. George Santayana
Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family:
Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one. Jane Howard
Nor need we power or splendor, wide hall or lordly dome;
The good, the true, the tender -- these form the wealth of home. Sarah J. Hale
The voice of parents is the voice of gods, for to their children they are heaven's lieutenants. William Shakespeare
The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family. Thomas Jefferson
Family life is full of major and minor crises -- the ups and downs of health, success and failure in career, marriage, and divorce -- and all kinds of characters. It is tied to places and events and histories. With all of these felt details, life etches itself into memory and personality. It's difficult to imagine anything more nourishing to the soul. Thomas Moore
Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible -- the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family. Virginia Satir
It is every man's obligation to put back into the world at least the equivalent of what he takes out of it. Albert Einstein
No one has ever become poor by giving. Anne Frank
Giving frees us from the familiar territory of our own needs by opening our mind to the unexplained worlds occupied by the needs of others. Barbara Bush
The love we give away is the only love we keep. Elbert Hubbard
Think of giving not as a duty but as a privilege. John D. Rockefeller Jr.
To put the world right in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must first put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must first cultivate our personal life; we must first set our hearts right. Confucious
Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to this country and to mankind is to bring up a family. George Bernard Shaw
A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty. Albert Einstein
The life I touch for good or ill will touch another life, and that in turn another, until who knows where the trembling stops or in what far place my touch will be felt. Frederick Buechner
And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our fear, our presence automatically liberates others. Marianne Williamson
Whoever is happy will make others happy, too. Mark Twain
What a bargain grandchildren are! I give them my loose change, and they give me a million dollars' worth of pleasure. Gene Perret
Perfect love sometimes does not come until the first grandchild. Welsh Proverb
What children need most are the essentials that grandparents provide in abundance. They give unconditional love, kindness, patience, humor, comfort, lessons in life. And, most importantly, cookies. Rudolph Giuliani
Our grandchildren accept us for ourselves, without rebuke or effort to change us, as no one in our entire lives has ever done, not our parents, siblings, spouses, friends - and hardly ever our own grown children. Ruth Goode
When a child is born, so are grandmothers. Judith Levy
If God had intended us to follow recipes,
He wouldn't have given us grandmothers.
Linda Henley
We should all have one person who knows how to bless us despite the evidence, Grandmother was that person to me. Phyllis Theroux
Being grandparents sufficiently removes us from the responsibilities so that we can be friends. Allan Frome
Uncles and aunts, and cousins, are all very well, and fathers and mothers are not to be despised; but a grandmother, at holiday time, is worth them all. Fanny Fern
It is as grandmothers that our mothers come into the fullness of their grace. Christopher Morley
A grandfather is someone with silver in his hair and gold in his heart. Author Unknown
Everyone needs to have access both to grandparents and grandchildren in order to be a full human being. Margaret Mead
Grandfathers are for loving and fixing things. Author Unknown
I loved their home. Everything smelled older, worn but safe; the food aroma had baked itself into the furniture. Susan Strasberg
If becoming a grandmother was only a matter of choice, I should advise every one of you straight away to become one. There is no fun for old people like it! Hannah Whithall Smith
If nothing is going well, call your grandmother. Italian Proverb
Elephants and grandchildren never forget. Andy Rooney
The best place to be when you're sad is Grandpa's lap. Author Unknown
Nobody can do for little children what grandparents do. Grandparents sort of sprinkle stardust over the lives of little children. Alex Haley
A grandparent is old on the outside but young on the inside. Author Unknown
We cannot live for ourselves alone. Our lives are connected by a thousand invisible threads, and along these sympathetic fibers, our actions run as causes and return to us as results. Helman Melville
If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it. Margaret Fuller
One of the most powerful handclasps is that of a new grandbaby around the finger of a grandfather. Joy Hargrove
Her grandmother, as she gets older, is not fading but rather becoming more concentrated. Paulette Bates Alden
The history of our grandparents is remembered not with rose petals but in the laughter and tears of their children and their children's children. It is into us that the lives of grandparents have gone. It is in us that their history becomes a future. Charles and Ann Morse
You've got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was. Irish Saying
No cowboy was ever faster on the draw than a grandparent pulling a baby picture out of a wallet. Author Unknown
I don't care how poor a man is; if he has family, he's rich. Dan Wilcox and Thad Mumford, "Identity Crisis," M*A*S*H
It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons. Johann Schiller
The family. We were a strange little band of characters trudging through life sharing diseases and toothpaste, coveting one another's desserts, hiding shampoo, borrowing money, locking each other out of our rooms, inflicting pain and kissing to heal it in the same instant, loving, laughing, defending, and trying to figure out the common thread that bound us all together. Erma Bombeck
You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them. Desmond Tutu
An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship. Spanish Proverb
The happiness of the domestic fireside is the first boon of Heaven; and it is well it is so, since it is that which is the lot of the mass of mankind. Thomas Jefferson, 1813
The great advantage of living in a large family is that early lesson of life's essential unfairness. Nancy Mitford
The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works is the family. Lee Iacocca
What greater thing is there for human souls than to feel that they are joined for life - to be with each other in silent unspeakable memories. George Eliot
If the family were a fruit, it would be an orange, a circle of sections, held together but separable - each segment distinct. Letty Cottin Pogrebin
The family is one of nature's masterpieces. George Santayana, The Life of Reason
Other things may change us, but we start and end with the family. Anthony Brandt
It behooves a father to be blameless if he expects his child to be. Homer
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. C.G. Jung, Integration of the Personality, 1939
Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy. Robert A. Heinlein
Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve. Roger Lewin
The beauty of "spacing" children many years apart lies in the fact that parents have time to learn the mistakes that were made with the older ones - which permits them to make exactly the opposite mistakes with the younger ones. Sydney J. Harris
There are two lasting bequests we can give our children. One is roots. The other is wings. Hodding Carter, Jr.
Sing out loud in the car even, or especially, if it embarrasses your children. Marilyn Penland
Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children. Charles R. Swindoll, The Strong Family
How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted. Walter Scott
What a child doesn't receive he can seldom later give. P.D. James, Time to Be in Earnest
If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others. Haim Ginott
Give me the life of the boy whose mother is nurse, seamstress, washerwoman, cook, teacher, angel, and saint, all in one, and whose father is guide, exemplar, and friend. No servants to come between. These are the boys who are born to the best fortune. Andrew Carnegie
There is only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it. Chinese Proverb
Kids spell love T-I-M-E. John Crudele
You have a lifetime to work, but children are only young once. Polish Proverb
A parent who has never apologized to his children is a monster. If he's always apologizing, his children are monsters. Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
The guys who fear becoming fathers don't understand that fathering is not something perfect men do, but something that perfects the man. The end product of child raising is not the child but the parent. Frank Pittman, Man Enough
The hardest part of raising a child is teaching them to ride bicycles. A shaky child on a bicycle for the first time needs both support and freedom. The realization that this is what the child will always need can hit hard. Sloan Wilson
Good, honest, hardheaded character is a function of the home. If the proper seed is sown there and properly nourished for a few years, it will not be easy for that plant to be uprooted. George A. Dorsey
Whenever I held my newborn baby in my arms, I used to think that what I said and did to him could have an influence not only on him but on all whom he met, not only for a day or a month or a year, but for all eternity - a very challenging and exciting thought for a mother. Rose Kennedy
Was there ever a grandparent, bushed after a day of minding noisy youngsters, who hasn't felt the Lord knew what He was doing when He gave little children to young people? Joe E. Wells
Children are natural mimics who act like their parents despite every effort to teach them good manners. Author Unknown
Character is largely caught, and the father and the home should be the great sources of character infection. Frank H. Cheley
When you teach your son, you teach your son's son. The Talmud
Instant availability without continuous presence is probably the best role a mother can play. Lotte Bailyn
The trouble with being a parent is that by the time you are experienced, you are unemployed. Author Unknown
In bringing up children, spend on them half as much money and twice as much time. Author Unknown
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