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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.'"
"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."
"Being a good mother, it seemed to me, meant you ran the risk of losing your child."
"Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived lives of the parents."
"I can encourage my daughter to love her body, but what really matters are the observations she makes about my relationship with my own body."
"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."
Explore more quotes by Samuel Richardson
"From sixteen to twenty, all women, kept in humor by their hopes and by their attractions, appear to be good-natured."
"As a child is indulged or checked in its early follies, a ground is generally laid for the happiness or misery of the future man."
"Some children act as if they thought their parents had nothing to do, but to see them established in the world and then quit it."
"Women are so much in love with compliments that rather than want them, they will compliment one another, yet mean no more by it than the men do."
"Let a man do what he will by a single woman, the world is encouragingly apt to think Marriage a sufficient amends."
"All our pursuits, from childhood to manhood, are only trifles of different sorts and sizes, proportioned to our years and views."
"To what a bad choice is many a worthy woman betrayed, by that false and inconsiderate notion, That a reformed rake makes the best husband!"
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