Child's Decision Making Tree

The Child is father of the Man. - William Wordsworth

Thank God kids never mean well. - Lily Tomlin

Time is a game played beautifully by children. - Heraclitus

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life. - Robertson Davies

What is really a stretch to me is to make quick decisions. - Ang Lee

Children are likely to live up to what you believe of them. - Lady Bird Johnson

Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back. - John Ruskin

Wrinkles are hereditary. Parents get them from their children. - Doris Day

Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying. - Fran Lebowitz

I continue to stay young, right? I produce children, I stay young. - Donald Trump

Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

If your parents never had children, chances are... neither will you. - Dick Cavett

The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy. - Alfred Whitehead

Children really brighten up a household. They never turn the lights off. - Ralph Bus

Creative play is like a spring that bubbles up from deep within a child. - Joan Almon

Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision. - Peter F Drucker

My cooking is so bad my kids thought Thanksgiving was to commemorate Pearl Harbor. - Phyllis Diller

The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother. - Henry Ward Beecher

Mothers hold their children's hands for a short while, but their hearts forever. - Unknown

Children are a great comfort in your old age, and they help you reach it faster, too. - Lionel Kauffman

If you're going to write a book on how to raise children, do it before you have them. - Bob McLaren

Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home. - Phyllis Diller

Children are not a distraction for more important work. They are the most important work. - C S Lewis

When people base their lives on principle, 99 percent of their decisions are already made. - Unknown

Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave
when they think that their children are naive. - Ogden Nash

Daddies don't just love their children every now and then, it's a love without end. - George Strait

Children aren't happy without something to ignore, and that's what parents were created for. - Ogden Nash

Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they're going to catch you in next. - Franklin P. Jones

If a child, a spouse, a life partner, or a parent depends on you and your income, you need life insurance. - Suze Orman

Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers. - Socrates

Most children threaten at times to run away from home. This is the only thing that keeps some parents going. - Phyllis Diller

I love to go to a movie, get a Diet Coke and a barrel of popcorn, and sit there with my kids and watch a film. - William Shatner

Decide promptly, but never give any reasons. Your decisions may be right, but your reasons are sure to be wrong. - Lord Mandfield

Tarry a moment to watch the chaos of a playground, crayola-colored shirts of running children, all trying out their wings. - Dr. SunWolf

He adopted a role called being a father so that his child would have something mythical and infinitely important: a protector. - Tom Wolfe

You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you have earned. - Fay Weldon

Everything here is edible; even I'm edible. But that, dear children, is cannibalism, and is in fact frowned upon in most societies. - Johnny Depp

The best time to give advice to your children is while they're still young enough to believe you know what you're talking about. - Evan Esar

Just be good and kind to your children. Not only are they the future of the world, they're the ones who can sign you into the nursing home. - Dennis Miller

In a big family the first child is kind of like the first pancake. If it's not perfect, that's okay, there are a lot more coming along. - Antonin Scalia