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"My husband's a pediatrician, so he and I talk about parenting all the time. You can't raise children who have more shame resilience than you do."
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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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Personal Development
"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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Personal Development
"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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Personal Development
"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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Personal Development
"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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Personal Development
"Mothers should be very careful what type of boys and men they create, or allow to be created."
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Personal Development
"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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"I've found what makes children happy doesn't always prepare them to be courageous, engaged adults."
Childhood
"I don't have to chase extraordinary moments to find happiness - it's right in front of me if I'm paying attention and practicing gratitude."
Happiness
"When you judge yourself for needing help, you judge those you are helping. When you attach value to giving help, you attach value to needing help. The danger of tying your self-worth to being a helper is feeling shame when you have to ask for help. Offering help is courageous and compassionate, but so is asking for help."
Psychology
"Authenticity is a collection of choices that we have to make every day. It's about the choice to show up and be real. The choice to be honest. The choice to let our true selves be seen."
Self
"If you own this story you get to write the ending."
Life
"No one reaches out to you for compassion or empathy so you can teach them how to behave better. They reach out to us because they believe in our capacity to know our darkness well enough to sit in the dark with them."
Psychology
"Worrying about scarcity is our culture's version of post-traumatic stress. It happens when we've been through too much, and rather than coming together to heal (which requires vulnerability) we're angry and scared and at each other's throats."
Psychology
"Courage originally meant "To speak one's mind by telling all one's heart."
Virtue
"There is no question that engagement requires sacrifice, but that's what we signed up for when we decided to become parents."
Family
"There is a quiet transformation happening that is moving us from 'turning on each other' to 'turning toward each other.' Without question, that transformation will require shame resilience. If we're willing to dare greatly and risk vulnerability with each other, worthiness has the power to set us free."
Growth
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