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"There was a danger in asking too much of a child, but the danger of asking too little was almost equal."
"Our greatest duty to our children is to love them first. Secondly, it is to teach them. Not to frighten, force, or intimidate our children into submission, but to effectively teach them so that they have the knowledge and tools to govern themselves."
"When you discipline a child you prepare them for a responsible and accountable adulthood."
"A parents wishes for their children shouldn't be to be as good as them but to surpass their own abilities and hopefully lead to a better world."
"Motherhood isn't just about making babies, it's about making lives and molding destinies."
"I ...understand how a parent might hit a child- it's because you can look into their eyes and see a reflection of yourself that you wish you hadn't."
"When my son Nick was five years old, he was sitting at the kitchen bar while I prepared dinner. In typical busy mother fashion, I was multitasking-cooking, cleaning, running the laundry, answering the phone, and attempting to listen to what he had to say."
"If you, as a parent, raise your children well, they won't need you anymore. If you did it properly, they go away."
"We pretend that we know our children, because it's easier than admitting the truth--from the minute that cord is cut, they are strangers. It's far easier to tell yourself your daughter is still a little girl than to see her in a bikini and realize she has the curves of a young woman; it's safer to say you're a good parent who has all the right conversations about drugs and sex than to acknowledge there are a thousand things she would never tell you."
Explore more quotes by Dan O'Brien
"As a young child, I was never a crier. I never cried to get my way, or even when I was in pain."
"It took me time to realize that the men who won Olympic gold medals in the decathlon are just men, just like me."
"Through everything I've gone through- and I've been everywhere, at the top of the world, in jail, hung over drunk - I never gave up my dream of winning a gold medal in the Olympics."
"The decathlon includes ten separate events and they all matter. You can't work on just one of them."
"You have to be able to be a good loser. You have to be okay knowing you're going to fail every day in something without getting mad and upset."
"There is nothing better than having a personal-best day, being in shape and pushing myself beyond my own limits."
"Take pride in exactly what it is you do and remember it's okay to fail as long as you don't give up."
"You need to become more than one type of athlete. You have to be a sprinter, a weight man and a distance guy all in one."
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