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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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"Disciplining a child is easier than disciplining a grown person, and forgiving a child's insolence is easier than forgiving a grown person's impudence."
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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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"Every child gets a good mother, but not every mother gets a good child."
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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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"To me, the decathlon is its own little society and I am part of that culture."
Society
"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."
Man
"I think what my parents did was perfect. They were strict, concerned about my safety and held me back just a little."
Parenting
"Take pride in exactly what it is you do and remember it's okay to fail as long as you don't give up."
Confidence
"As a young athlete, it was first about having fun; then it was about winning."
Winning
"The decathlon includes ten separate events and they all matter. You can't work on just one of them."
Work
"It really means a lot that I won the gold medal - but I woke up the next morning expecting to feel different. I felt the same."
Gold
"As a young child, I was never a crier. I never cried to get my way, or even when I was in pain."
Pain
"It took me time to realize that the men who won Olympic gold medals in the decathlon are just men, just like me."
Man
"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."
Resilience
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