"Nobody ever feels they're doing well with teenagers,' he said. 'I think that's kind of the point of them."

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"There was a danger in asking too much of a child, but the danger of asking too little was almost equal."

Robin Hobb, American Author

Parenting, Children, Responsibility, Observation, Balance

"Our greatest duty to our children is to love them first. Secondly, it is to teach them. Not to frighten, force, or intimidate our children into submission, but to effectively teach them so that they have the knowledge and tools to govern themselves."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

Parenting, Love, Teaching, Compassion

"When you discipline a child you prepare them for a responsible and accountable adulthood."

Gift Gugu Mona, South African Motivational Speaker

Parenting, Discipline, Education, Responsibility

"A parents wishes for their children shouldn't be to be as good as them but to surpass their own abilities and hopefully lead to a better world."

Stanley Victor Paskavich, American Politician

Parenting, Children, World, Future

"Motherhood isn't just about making babies, it's about making lives and molding destinies."

Jaachynma N.E. Agu, Nigerian Author

Parenting, Motherhood, Life, Destiny, Creation

"I ...understand how a parent might hit a child- it's because you can look into their eyes and see a reflection of yourself that you wish you hadn't."

Jodi Picoult, American Novelist

Parenting, Reflection, Self, Emotion

"Babies don't come with instruction booklets. You'd learn the same way we all do -- you'd read up on dinosaurs, you'd Google backhoes and skidders. And you don't need a penis to go buy a baseball glove."

Jodi Picoult, American Novelist

Parenting, Learning, Life, Curiosity

"When my son Nick was five years old, he was sitting at the kitchen bar while I prepared dinner. In typical busy mother fashion, I was multitasking-cooking, cleaning, running the laundry, answering the phone, and attempting to listen to what he had to say."

Susan C. Young, American Author

Parenting, Life, Truth, Power, Inspirational

"If you, as a parent, raise your children well, they won't need you anymore. If you did it properly, they go away."

Neil Gaiman, British Author

Parenting, Growth, Independence, Life

"We pretend that we know our children, because it's easier than admitting the truth--from the minute that cord is cut, they are strangers. It's far easier to tell yourself your daughter is still a little girl than to see her in a bikini and realize she has the curves of a young woman; it's safer to say you're a good parent who has all the right conversations about drugs and sex than to acknowledge there are a thousand things she would never tell you."

Jodi Picoult, American Novelist

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"I needed to tell him, silently, that things might change, grow, or fail, but that life did go on. That we were all part of some great cycle, some pattern that it was only God's purpose to understand."

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"You only get one life. It's actually your duty to live it as fully as possible."

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"I just want to be a man who has been to a concert with a girl in a red dress."

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"For every book that I write... I develop a history for each person and make sure they are well rounded and flawed. You have to know everything about them from their shoe size, to where they went to school, to what their first pet was, to what they like to eat, to what they want out of life."

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"There was a danger in asking too much of a child, but the danger of asking too little was almost equal."

"Our greatest duty to our children is to love them first. Secondly, it is to teach them. Not to frighten, force, or intimidate our children into submission, but to effectively teach them so that they have the knowledge and tools to govern themselves."

"When you discipline a child you prepare them for a responsible and accountable adulthood."

"A parents wishes for their children shouldn't be to be as good as them but to surpass their own abilities and hopefully lead to a better world."

"Motherhood isn't just about making babies, it's about making lives and molding destinies."

"I ...understand how a parent might hit a child- it's because you can look into their eyes and see a reflection of yourself that you wish you hadn't."

"Babies don't come with instruction booklets. You'd learn the same way we all do -- you'd read up on dinosaurs, you'd Google backhoes and skidders. And you don't need a penis to go buy a baseball glove."

"When my son Nick was five years old, he was sitting at the kitchen bar while I prepared dinner. In typical busy mother fashion, I was multitasking-cooking, cleaning, running the laundry, answering the phone, and attempting to listen to what he had to say."

"If you, as a parent, raise your children well, they won't need you anymore. If you did it properly, they go away."

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"Sometimes just getting through each day requires almost superhuman strength."

"So this is it. You are scored on my heart, Clark."

"A face whose emotions had not yet been battered by experience."

"Moving on means we have to protect ourselves."

"Live boldly. Push yourself. Don't settle."

"All Chelsea's internet dates were gorgeous. Until she met them."

"I needed to tell him, silently, that things might change, grow, or fail, but that life did go on. That we were all part of some great cycle, some pattern that it was only God's purpose to understand."

"You only get one life. It's actually your duty to live it as fully as possible."

"I just want to be a man who has been to a concert with a girl in a red dress."

"For every book that I write... I develop a history for each person and make sure they are well rounded and flawed. You have to know everything about them from their shoe size, to where they went to school, to what their first pet was, to what they like to eat, to what they want out of life."