"Americans, indeed, often seem to be so overwhelmed by their children that they'll do anything for them except stay married to the co-producer."

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"Americans, indeed, often seem to be so overwhelmed by their children that they'll do anything for them except stay married to the co-producer."

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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."

Jonathan Safran Foer, American Novelist

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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."

Maya Angelou, American Poet

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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."

Mitch Albom, American Writer

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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."

Dan Pearce, American Author

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"Never tell a child that something it's too hard."

Mitch Albom, American Writer

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Lois Greiman, American Author

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"Darling, my darling, don't think that I don't love you or that I didn't love you, but it's precisely because I love you that I couldn't have become what I am today if you were still here. It's impossible to have a child and despise the world as it is, because that's the world we've put the child into. The child makes us care about the world, think about it's future, willingly join in its racket and its turmoils, take its incurable stupidity seriously."

Milan Kundera, Czechoslovakian Writer

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"How to advise parents for being successful in raising children stillremains an important unsolved problem."

Eraldo Banovac, Croatian Scientist

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"The hard and unexpected part is the realization not just that my son is not here but that the boy he was is gone forever. I would give anything to have them both back. But of course that cannot be. Life moves on. Kids grow up and move away, and if you don't know this already, believe me, it happens faster than you can imagine."

Bill Bryson, American Writer

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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."

"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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