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I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child, well nursed, is at a year old, a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee, or a ragout. (Princess Diana )
We worry about what a child will be tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today. (Princess Diana )
It needs courage to let our children go, but we are trustees and stewards and have to hand them back to life--to God. As the old saying puts it: What I gave I have. We have to love them and lose them. (Princess Diana )
If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings. (Princess Diana )
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. (Princess Diana )
With children... it is a fact that most parents criticize children more than they laud or congratulate them. We tend to be quick to criticize, slow to praise. We should be careful to keep the praise and the expectations far ahead of the criticism. (Princess Diana )
Kids use to ask where they came from, now they tell you where to go (Princess Diana )
Give me a child for the first seven years, and you may do what you like with him afterwards. (Princess Diana )
Children are a great comfort to us in our old age, and they help us reach it faster too. (Princess Diana )
The best way for a man to train up a child in the way he should go is to travel that way himself. (Princess Diana )
Too many parents are not on spanking terms with their children. (Princess Diana )
If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and for earning money. (Princess Diana )
A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm. (Princess Diana )
Never have children, only grand children. (Princess Diana )
Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision. (Princess Diana )
Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world. (Princess Diana )
The potential possibilities of any child are the most intriguing and stimulating in all creation. (Princess Diana )
The planting of trees in the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children. (Princess Diana )
Winning children (who appear so guileless) are children who have discovered how effective charm and modesty and a delicately calculated spontaneity are in winning what they want. (Princess Diana )
The best way to make children good is to make them happy. (Princess Diana )
Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them. (Princess Diana )
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