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"Babies don't come with instruction booklets. You'd learn the same way we all do -- you'd read up on dinosaurs, you'd Google backhoes and skidders. And you don't need a penis to go buy a baseball glove."
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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."
"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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"The unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he injures are always in his sight."
"So many mothers are unable to let their children go into the adult life and become literally attached to them giving rise to codependency."
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