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"A particularly difficult line to navigate is the one between fear and love, especially for parents, who want more than anything to protect their children from suffering."
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"Being a parent wasn't just about bearing a child. It was about bearing witness to its life."
"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."
"Passing their toilet training is the very last thing that some adults did that has made their parents proud of them."
"Mothers should be very careful what type of boys and men they create, or allow to be created."
"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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"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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