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"Being a 'good' parent is more about the parent, and, less about the 'supposedly-could-have-been-bad' child."
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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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"First and foremost, we need to be the adults we want our children to be. We should watch our own gossiping and anger. We should model the kindness we want to see."
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"Parents are labelling, criticizing and reproaching the child on any account."
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"Children rarely follow parental advice unless it is acted out repeatedly. It's called being an example."
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"There are times in life when people must know when not to let go. Balloons are designed to teach small children this."
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"For parents, it is important to respect the personality of a child."
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"Children can be told anything-anything. I've always been struck by seeing how little grown-up people understand children, how little parents even understand their own children. Nothing should be concealed from children on the pretext that they are little and that it is too early for them to understand. What a miserable and unfortunate idea! And how readily the children detect that their fathers consider them too little to understand anything, though they understand everything. Grown-up people do not know that a child can give exceedingly good advice even in the most difficult case."
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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
"I come from a family of business people, but I had the idea I wanted to become an artist."
Business
"Right at the beginning, I didn't know if Miffy was a boy or girl."
Beginning
"I have been drawing all my life."
Life
"My father realised that for me to become a publisher in his firm would have been the end of the firm!"
Family
"But we discovered that, although I liked publishing, the commercial side meant nothing at all to me."
Nothing
"I want a nice picture book with 12 pictures - I do my best with that format."
Want
"Miffy has changed quite a lot since the early books, although I never realised it at the time."
Time
"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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