"You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance." ― Franklin P. Jones Topic(s): Parenting More From Franklin P. Jones "Experience enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again." "Scratch a dog and you’ll find a permanent job." "Anybody who finds it easy to make money on the horses is probably in the dog food business." More In Parenting "My childhood should have taught me lessons for my own fatherhood, but it didn’t because parenting can only be learned by people who have no children."― Bill Cosby "We criticize mothers for closeness. We criticize fathers for distance. How many of us have expected less from our fathers and appreciated what they gave us more? How many of us always let them off the hook?"― Ellen Goodman "A mother who is really a mother is never free."― Honore de Balzac