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"Being a parent wasn't just about bearing a child. It was about bearing witness to its life."
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"Don't box your children in and tell them that everything is a sin. You'll produce either rebels, or very boring people."
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"Effective parenting requires being the grown up version of what you want your children to be. Why? Because example is the most compelling superpower."
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"This is the one thing that I learnt from my father, and I approve of it fully. Abundance is neither good nor healthy for the growth of a child's mind."
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"Your love life is insignificant when it comes to raising your children to be respectable human beings. The moment you see them suffer or lower their standards because of your selfishness, is the day you should realize that nothing matters more than them. You are not just the queen or king of your fairy tale. The real story of your life is the gift of time God gave you with them."
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"In parenting patience is the greatest virtue."
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"Passing their toilet training is the very last thing that some adults did that has made their parents proud of them."
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"Mothers should be very careful what type of boys and men they create, or allow to be created."
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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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"It is not that you give birth to a child that matters most. Rather, it is what you birth into them."
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"Miffy has changed quite a lot since the early books, although I never realised it at the time."
Time
"I thought it would be very nice to become Picasso or Rembrandt, or a van Gogh."
Thought
"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
"My father realised that for me to become a publisher in his firm would have been the end of the firm!"
Family
"I come from a family of business people, but I had the idea I wanted to become an artist."
Business
"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 want a nice picture book with 12 pictures - I do my best with that format."
Want
"Right at the beginning, I didn't know if Miffy was a boy or girl."
Beginning
"I thought it was amazing to work with authors, to get a manuscript and try to make up a cover for it."
Work
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