"The worst thing you can do for..." - Quote by Abraham Lincoln
The worst thing you can do for those you love is the things they could and should do themselves.
More by Abraham Lincoln
More on Parenting
“One thing they never tell you about child raising is that for the rest of your life, at the drop of a hat, you are expected to know your child's name and how old he or she is.”
“Well-mannered children could be conceived if the parents were well-mannered.”
“Be nice to your children. After all, they are going to choose your nursing home.”
More on Responsibility
“Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.”
“The problem is that the way [President] Bush has done it over the last eight years is to take out a credit card from the Bank of China in the name of our children, driving up our national debt from $5 trillion dollars for the first 42 presidents - number 43 added $4 trillion dollars by his lonesome - so that we now have over $9 trillion dollars of debt that we are going to have to pay back. [That's] $30,000 for every man, woman and child. That's irresponsible. It's unpatriotic.”
“Benedict Arnold was a war hero, wounded in battle--before he turned against his country. Hitler was likewise a decorated and wounded veteran of the First World War. Being a war hero is not a lifetime...exempt[ion]...from responsibility for what you do thereafter.”