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"Do you have kids?" Anna asks.I laugh. "What do you think?""It's probably a good thing," she admits. "No offense, but you don't exactly look like a parent."That fascinates me. "What do parents look like?"She seems to think about this. "You know how the tightrope guy at the circus wants everyone to believe his act is an art, but deep down you can see that he's really just hoping he makes it all the way across? Like that."
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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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"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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"So many mothers are unable to let their children go into the adult life and become literally attached to them giving rise to codependency."
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"When my son was a teenager, he would use the 'poker face' tactic when I was lecturing, nagging, or suggesting. As a parent, it was maddening because I could not read his reactions! His stoicism would sometimes deflate my efforts or make me surrender in laughter, changing the subject all together."
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"I was starting to see that what looks like garbage from one angle might be art from another. Maybe it did take a crisis to get to know yourself, maybe you needed to get whacked hard by life before you understood what you wanted out of it."
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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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"When we sat down on the couch again, you curled up against my side, like you used to when you were a tod."
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"Things that look impossible suddenly seem a lot better, once you get God on board."
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"Kids think with their brains cracked wide open; becoming an adult, I've decided, is only a slow sewing shut."
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"There are skeletons in everyone's closet, things no one ever wants the world to discover."
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"When I was little I bragged about my firefighting father: my father would go to heaven, because if he went to hell he would put out all the fires."
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"It seems to me that no matter what religion you subscribe to, acts of kindness are the stepping-stones to making the world a better place--because we become better people in it."
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"She wanted him to tell her that when you love someone so hard and so fierce, it was all right to do things that you knew were wrong."
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"Being a good mother, it seemed to me, meant you ran the risk of losing your child."
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