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Khaled Hosseini

"In Afghan society, parents play a central role in the lives of their children; the parent-child relationship is fundamental to who you are and what you become and how you perceive yourself, and it is laden with contradictions, with tension, with anger, with love, with loathing, with angst."

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"In Afghan society, parents play a central role in the lives of their children; the parent-child relationship is fundamental to who you are and what you become and how you perceive yourself, and it is laden with contradictions, with tension, with anger, with love, with loathing, with angst."

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"Then Siddhartha began to understand that his son had not brought him happiness and peace, but suffering and worry. But he loved him, and he preferred the suffering and worries of love over happiness and joy without the boy."

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"One of the nicest things you can do to kick-start your children's day is to tell them honestly they look nice as they head out the door. This easy, five-second exchange says to your child: 'I see you; I notice you; I love you.'"

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"Parents' transmit their attitude towards education to children via soundless, aphonic messages."

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"Only when you are grown up, perhaps only when you have children yourself, do you fully understand that your own parents had a full and intricate existence before you were born."

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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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"Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived lives of the parents."

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"It's so awful, attacking your child. It's the worse thing I know, to shout loudly at this 50 lb. being with his huge trusting brown eyes. It's like bitch-slapping E.T."

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"Most parents are not really 'supportive' because they want their kid(s) to succeed; they 'support' their kid(s) as an attempt to avoid appearing to have bred a failure, or, failures - in the eyes of their peers and/or neighbours."

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"The parent must always self-parent first, self-preach before child-teach, because who can bring peace unless they've held their own peace?"

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"Work at our responsibility as parents as if everything in life counted on it, because in fact everything in life does count on it."

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