"Passing their toilet training is the very last thing that some adults did that has made their parents proud of them."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

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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."

Robin Hobb, American Author

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"If you, as a parent, raise your children well, they won't need you anymore. If you did it properly, they go away."

Neil Gaiman, British Author

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"Sometimes your kids will say the nastiest things, won't they, Rose? You want to ask,'Whose child is this?'"Rose chuckled."But usually, they're just in some kind of pain. They need to work it out."

Mitch Albom, American Writer

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"Every child gets a good mother, but not every mother gets a good child."

Amit Kalantri, Indian Author

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"A child learns to be guilty when he is punished and scolded for damaging material objects."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"Never argue with a mother who's scolding her child."

Toba Beta, Indonesian Author

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"In parenting patience is the greatest virtue."

Abhijit Naskar, Indian Author

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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."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

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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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"Children need love most when they don't deserve it."

Ikechukwu Joseph, Nigerian Motivational Speaker

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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."

"If you, as a parent, raise your children well, they won't need you anymore. If you did it properly, they go away."

"Sometimes your kids will say the nastiest things, won't they, Rose? You want to ask,'Whose child is this?'"Rose chuckled."But usually, they're just in some kind of pain. They need to work it out."

"Every child gets a good mother, but not every mother gets a good child."

"A child learns to be guilty when he is punished and scolded for damaging material objects."

"Never argue with a mother who's scolding her child."

"In parenting patience is the greatest virtue."

"Effective parenting requires being the grown up version of what you want your children to be. Why? Because example is the most compelling superpower."

"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."

"Children need love most when they don't deserve it."

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"We are not as important to most people as we are to ourselves. As a matter of fact, we are-to most people-not important at all."

"Being in a hurry is the father of stress and worry."

"Being HIV positive doesn't necessarily mean that you are going to die before each and every person who is HIV negative."

"In a patriarchal society, one of the most important functions of the institution of the family is to make feel like a somebody whenever he is in his own yard a man who is a nobody whenever he is in his employer's yard."

"Alcohol is one of the quickest vehicles with which we escape shyness, our problems, and self-consciousness, for a few hours."

"When in court, the primary role of lawyers is not to prove or disprove innocence; unbeknown to almost all lawyers and their clients, it is to save the court time."