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"The unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he injures are always in his sight."
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"Kids are a great analogy. You want your kids to grow up, and you don't want your kids to grow up. You want your kids to become independent of you, but it's also a parent's worst nightmare: That they won't need you. It's like the real tragedy of parenting."
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"I learned to love my son without wanting to possess him and I learned how to teach him to teach himself."
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"I may deserve your disappointment as well as a lecture and strict discipline, but what I need is your understanding, your guidance, and your unconditional love."
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"If you want to teach real religion to the kids, throw away the Bible, the Vedas, the Quran and all the scriptures, and teach them the religion of love."
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"Sometimes your kids will say the nastiest things, won't they, Rose? You want to ask,'Whose child is this?'"Rose chuckled."But usually, they're just in some kind of pain. They need to work it out."
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"Nature attunes children to receive the coded messages that parents issue how to live a joyful and virtuous life."
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"The most difficult part of dating as a single parent is deciding how much risk your own child's heart is worth."
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"I don't think my parents liked me. They put a live teddy bear in my crib."
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"Never tell a child that something it's too hard."
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"Before he went to sleep, I told him a little story about a rabbit we saw run around the beach house we rented."
Parenting
"But we discovered that, although I liked publishing, the commercial side meant nothing at all to me."
Nothing
"I did about 2000 covers altogether, for all sorts of books - from Shakespeare to James Bond - and I always had the idea that I must give 100%, no matter who the author was."
Creativity
"I want a nice picture book with 12 pictures - I do my best with that format."
Want
"Each book first begins with a little idea."
Creativity
"Then one day I thought it would be wonderful to make a whole book, to make my text and my drawings together, and that's how I started doing children's books."
Thought
"I thought it was amazing to work with authors, to get a manuscript and try to make up a cover for it."
Work
"My father realised that for me to become a publisher in his firm would have been the end of the firm!"
Family
"When I make a book, I make it for the child and not for the parent - no jokes in it for the parents!"
Childhood
"But I don't sit down and think: this is meant for children."
Family
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