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Parenting Quotes
"There was a danger in asking too much of a child, but the danger of asking too little was almost equal."
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"Tiffany jumped when she saw a balloon sail up above the trees, catch the wind, and swoop away, but it turned out to be just a balloon and not a lump of excess Brian. She could tell this because it was followed by a long scream of rage mixed with a roar of complaint: "AAaargwannawannaaaagongongonaargggaaaaBLOON! which is the traditional sound of a very small child learning that with balloons, as with life itself, it is important to know when not to let go of the string. The whole point of balloons is to teach small children this."
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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."
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"Good parents use the mistakes they did in the past when they were young to advice the children God gave to them to prevent them from repeating those mistakes again. However, bad parents always want to be seen as right and appear "angelic and saintly" as if they never had horrible youth days."
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"Parents are labelling, criticizing and reproaching the child on any account."
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"Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation."
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"Teach the children compassion and empathy, for all creatures are born selfish."
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"It's so easy and convenient to buy our children gifts, but I encourage and challenge you to give them gifts that TRULY matter! The gift of unconditional love. The gift of encouragement. The gift of support. The gift of friendship. The gift of communication, understanding, and patience. The gift of guidance and support. The gift of quality time. And the gift of loving them for who THEY are. Material things are nice, but NOTHING compares to genuine love! Parenting should be taking seriously."
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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."
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"The answer to the question 'How many children do you have?' and the one to the question 'How many children are you raising?' are not identical in all cases: some men are not taking care of their own children, some are knowingly or unknowingly raising other men's children, and some do not even know that they each have a child, another child, or other children."
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"Once a baby is born, the parents have around one and a half decades to build his or her character and fill the mind with vigour and virtues."
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"Disciplining a child is easier than disciplining a grown person, and forgiving a child's insolence is easier than forgiving a grown person's impudence."
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"A child must have care and attention, but that care and attention need not emanate from a single, permanently present individual. Children are more disturbed by changes of place than by changes in personnel around them, and more distressed by friction and ill-feeling between the adults in their environment than by unfamiliarity."
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"For parents, it is important to respect the personality of a child."
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"We can only afford two children' is a squalid argument, but more acceptable in our society than 'we don't like children'."
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"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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"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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