Child Training Quotes

“Boys [should be] inured from childhood to trifling risks and slight dangers of every possible description, such as tumbling into ponds and off of trees, etc., in order to strengthen their nervous system... They ought to practice leaping off heights into deep water. They ought never to hesitate to cross a stream over a narrow unsafe plank for fear of a ducking. They ought never to decline to climb up a tree, to pull fruit merely because there is a possibility of their falling off and breaking their necks. I firmly believe that boys were intended to encounter all kinds of risks, in order to prepare them to meet and grapple with risks and dangers incident to man’s career with cool, cautious self-possession...”
― R. M. Ballantyne

“People ask me how it happens that my children are all so promptly obedient and so happy. As if it chanced that some parents have such children or chanced that some have not! I am afraid it is only too true, as someone has remarked, that "this is the age of obedient parents!" What then will be the future of their children? How can they yield to God who have never been taught to yield to human authority? And how well fitted will they be to rule their own households who have never learned to rule themselves?”
― Elizabeth Prentiss, Stepping Heavenward

“Mabel, Mabel, strong and able,
Keep your elbows off the table,
This is not a horse's stable,
But a fancy dining table.”
― Ann B. Rice

“Every child is created uniquely by God. God puts a certain formula in the heart of every child. And it is the parents' challenge to figure out the combination. We need to spend time studying, looking, listening, and observing.”
― David Jeremiah, Acts of Love: The Power of Encouragement

“Any system of training which does not make a
knowledge of Scripture the first thing is unsafe and unsound.”
― J.C. Ryle

“As you leave home to feed home as father, make sure you build a home not only fed but trained firmly as well.”
― Ned Bryan Abakah

“Not so the child of the Christian mother, whose highest desire is to train him for the Christian life. When he wakes to the consciousness of whose he is and whom he serves, she would have him ready for that high service, with every faculty in training--a man of war from his youth; above all, with an effecive will, to will and to do of His good pleasure.”
― Charlotte Mason, Home Education