John Crudele
“Kids spell love T-I-M-E.”
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James Lowell
“The best academy....a mother's knee.”
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Author Unknown
“Praise your children and they will blossom!”
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Malcolm Forbes
“Presence is more than just being there.”
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Shinichi Suzuki
“Children learn to smile from their parents.”
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John A. Shedd
“Simply having children does not make mothers.”
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Robert A. Heinlein
“Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy.”
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Jesse Jackson
“Your children need your presence more than your presents.”
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Homer
“It behooves a father to be blameless if he expects his child to be.”
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P.D. James
“What a child doesn't receive he can seldom later give.”
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Author Unknown
“There is only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it.”
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Gloria Steinem
“Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.”
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The Talmud
“When you teach your son, you teach your son's son.”
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Leon R. Yankwich
“There are no illegitimate children - only illegitimate parents.”
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Karl Menninger
“What's done to children, they will do to society.”
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Author Unknown
“You have a lifetime to work, but children are only young once.”
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Abraham Lincoln
“Love is the chain whereby to bind a child to its parents.”
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Arnold Glasow
“Parents can tell but never teach, unless they practice what they preach.”
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Author Unknown
“Love is giving someone your undivided attention.”
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Benjamin Spock
“The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.”
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Henry Ward Beecher
“There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.”
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Jan Hunt
“All children behave as well as they are treated.”
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Elaine Heffner
“The art of mothering is to teach the art of living to children.”
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David Bly
“Your children will become what you are; so be what you want them to be.”
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Lin Yutang
“Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother.”
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Harold Hulbert
“Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it.”
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P.D. James
“What a child doesn’t receive he can seldom later give.”
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Author Unknown
“With kids, the days are long but the years are short.”
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David Frost
“Having one child makes you a parent; having two you are a referee.”
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Jessamyn West
“If you want a baby, have a new one. Don't baby the old one.”
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Author Unknown
“Self-reliance is the greatest gift a parent can give a child.”
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George Lee
“If you don’t teach your children the kids at school will.”
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H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
“Always kiss your children goodnight - even if they're already asleep.”
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Author Unknown
“Sports don't build character they reveal character.”
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Clarence Budinton Kelland
“My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.”
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Author Unknown
“Some parents could do more for their children by not doing so much for them.”
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Franklin P. Jones
“You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.”
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Henry Ward Beecher
“The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.”
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Roy L. Smith
“We are apt to forget that children watch examples better than they listen to preaching.”
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Robert Fulghum
“Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.”
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Author Unknown
“To be in your children’s memories tomorrow, you have to be in their lives today”
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Henry Ward Beecher
“We never know the love of our parents for us until we have become parents.”
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John Plomp
“You know children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers.”
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Henry Home
“An infallible way to make your child miserable is to satisfy all his demands.”
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P. J. O'Rourke
“Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them.”
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Josh Billings
“To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while.”
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Author Unknown
“In bringing up children, spend on them half as much money and twice as much time.”
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Marcelene Cox
“Parenthood - That state of being better chaperoned than you were before marriage.”
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Roger Lewin
“Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.”
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Richard L. Evans
“A person soon learns how little he knows when a child begins to ask questions.”
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Charles R. Swindoll
“Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.”
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Jodie Foster
“Love and respect are the most important aspects of parenting, and of all relationships.”
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H. Jackson Brown
“Live so that when your children think of fairness and integrity, they think of you.”
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Author Unknown
“When you have children yourself, you begin to understand what you owe your parents.”
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Frank A. Clark
“The most important thing that parents can teach their children is how to get along without them.”
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James A. Brewer
“Lucky parents who have fine children usually have lucky children who have fine parents.”
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Edward, Duke of Windsor
“The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children.”
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O. A. Battista
“The best inheritance a parent can give his children is a few minutes of his time each day.”
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James Dobson
“Sometimes we're so concerned about giving our children what we never had growing up, we neglect to give them what we did have growing up.”
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L. Tom Perry
“Parents have the glorious opportunity of being the most powerful influence, above and beyond any other, on the new lives that bless their homes.”
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Sydney Harris
“Being a mother isn't simply a matter of having children. To think that is as absurd as believing that having a piano makes one a musician.”
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P. J. O'Rourke
“You know your children are growing up when they stop asking you where they came from and refuse to tell you where they're going.”
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Haim Ginott
“Parents often talk about the younger generation as if they didn't have anything to do with it.”
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Abigail Van Buren
“If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.”
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Lane Olinghouse
“The quickest way for a parent to get a child's attention is to sit down and look comfortable.”
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Hodding Carter, Jr.
“There are two lasting bequests we can give our children. One is roots. The other is wings.”
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John Wilmot
“Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children, and no theories.”
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Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
“It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.”
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Author Unknown
“Parents who are always giving their children nothing but the best usually wind up with nothing but the worst.”
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Haim Ginott
“If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others.”
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Mignon McLaughlin
“Your children vividly remember every unkind thing you ever did to them, plus a few you really didn't.”
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Author Unknown
“The trouble with being a parent is that by the time you are experienced, you are unemployed.”
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Doc Childre
“An aware parent loves all children he or she meets and interacts with—for you are a caretaker for those moments in time.”
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Dennis Fakes
“Any child can tell you that the sole purpose of a middle name is so he can tell when he's really in trouble.”
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Author Unknown
“Children are natural mimics: they act like their parents in spite of every attempt to teach them good manners.”
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William Attwood
“Don't demand respect as a parent. Demand civility and insist on honesty. But respect is something you must earn -- with kids as well as with adults.”
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Mary Howitt
“God sends children to enlarge our hearts, and make us unselfish and full of kindly sympathies and affections.”
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Author Unknown
“Children seldom misquote you. In fact, they usually repeat word for word what you shouldn't have said.”
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C. Everet Koop
“Life affords no greater responsibility, no greater privilege, than the raising of the next generation.”
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Author Unknown
“Parents who are afraid to put their foot down usually have children who tread on their toes.”
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Alvin Price
“Parents need to fill a child’s bucket of self-esteem so high that the rest of the world can’t poke enough holes to drain it dry.”
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Anne Frank
“Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.”
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Author Unknown
“Parents who are afraid to put their foot down usually have children who step on their toes.”
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Elbert Hubbard
“Where parents do too much for their children, the children will not do much for themselves.”
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Susanne Wesley
“The child that never learns to obey his parents in the home will not obey God or man out of the home.”
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Jim DeMint
“One of the greatest titles in the world is parent, and one of the biggest blessings in the world is to have parents to call mom and dad.”
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John Locke
“Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.”
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Paul Smally
“Children desperately need to know - and to hear in ways they understand and remember - that they're loved and valued by mom and dad.”
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Author Unknown
“A baby will make love stronger, days shorter, nights longer, bankroll smaller, home happier, clothes shabbier, the past forgotten, and the future worth living for.”
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C.G. Jung
“If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.”
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Marcelene Cox
“Parents are often so busy with the physical rearing of children that they miss the glory of parenthood, just as the grandeur of the trees is lost when raking leaves.”
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Phyllis Diller
“It would seem that something which means poverty, disorder and violence every single day should be avoided entirely, but the desire to beget children is a natural urge.”
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Karen Brown
“My mom used to say it doesn't matter how many kids you have... because one kid'll take up 100% of your time so more kids can't possibly take up more than 100% of your time.”
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Pope John Paul II
“To maintain a joyful family requires much from both the parents and the children. Each member of the family has to become, in a special way, the servant of the others.”
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Rabbi Kassel Abelson
“The Hebrew word for parents is horim, and it comes from the same root as moreh, teacher. The parent is, and remains, the first and most important teacher that the child will have.”
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Astrid Alauda
“There comes a time when a woman needs to stop thinking about her looks and focus her energies on raising her children. This time comes at the moment of conception. A child needs a role model, not a supermodel.”
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Frank Pittman
“The guys who fear becoming fathers don't understand that fathering is not something perfect men do, but something that perfects the man. The end product of child raising is not the child but the parent.”
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George A. Dorsey
“Good, honest, hardheaded character is a function of the home. If the proper seed is sown there and properly nourished for a few years, it will not be easy for that plant to be uprooted.”
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William E. Blatz
“Affection without sentiment, authority without cruelty, discipline without aggression, humor without ridicule, sacrifice without obligation, companionship without possessiveness.”
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Gary Smalley
“Affirming words from moms and dads are like light switches. Speak a word of affirmation at the right moment in a child's life and it's like lighting up a whole roomful of possibilities.”
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Bill Cosby
“In spite of the six thousand manuals on child raising in the bookstores, child raising is still a dark continent and no one really knows anything. You just need a lot of love and luck - and, of course, courage.”
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Rachel Carson
“If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement and mystery of the world we live in.”
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Brian Tracy
“If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.”
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Joyce Maynard
“It's not only children who grow. Parents do too. As much as we watch to see what our children do with their lives, they are watching us to see what we do with ours. I can't tell my children to reach for the sun. All I can do is reach for it, myself.”
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Susan Sarandon
“I just want my kids to love who they are, have happy lives and find something they want to do and make peace with that. Your job as a parent is to give your kids not only the instincts and talents to survive, but help them enjoy their lives.”
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Rose Kennedy
“I looked on childrearing not only as a work of love and duty but as a profession that was fully interesting and challenging as any honorable profession in the world and one that demanded the best that I could bring to it.”
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Virginia Satir
“Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible — the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family.”
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H. David Burton
“Parents who have been successful in acquiring more often have a difficult time saying no to the demands of overindulged children. Their children run the risk of not learning important values like hard work, delayed gratification, honesty, and compassion.”
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Thich Nhat Hanh
“If you look deeply into the palm of your hand, you will see your parents and all generations of your ancestors. All of them are alive in this moment. Each is present in your body. You are the continuation of each of these people.”
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Andrew Carnegie
“Give me the life of the boy whose mother is nurse, seamstress, washerwoman, cook, teacher, angel, and saint, all in one, and whose father is guide, exemplar, and friend. No servants to come between. These are the boys who are born to the best fortune.”
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Rose Kennedy
“Whenever I held my newborn baby in my arms, I used to think that what I said and did to him could have an influence not only on him but on all whom he met, not only for a day or a month or a year, but for all eternity - a very challenging and exciting thought for a mother.”
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Patricia Holland
“We all come into the world crying—and a little bit wobbly. For parents to take a newborn infant, who is then only a bundle of potentialities, and love and guide and develop that child until a fully functional human being emerges is the grandest miracle of science, and the greatest of all arts.”
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Boyd K. Packer
“We could be like a father determined to provide everything for his family. He devotes every energy to that end and succeeds; only then does he discover that what they needed most, to be together as a family, has been neglected. And he reaps sorrow in place of contentment.”
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David O. McKay
"The home is the first and most effective place for children to learn the lessons of life: truth, honor, virtue, self-control; the value of education, honest work, and the purpose and privilege of life. Nothing can take the place of home in rearing and teaching children, and no other success can compensate for failure in the home."
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Gordon B. Hinckley
“In terms of you happiness, in terms of the matters that make you proud or sad, nothing—I repeat, nothing—will have so profound an effect on you as the way your children turn out. You will either rejoice and boast of their accomplishments or you will weep, head in hands, bereft and forlorn, if they become a disappointment or an embarrassment to you.”
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Fred Rogers
“When we choose to be parents, we accept another human being as part of ourselves, and a large part of our emotional selves will stay with that person as long as we live. From that time on, there will be another person on this earth whose orbit around us will affect us as surely as the moon affects the tides, and affect us in some ways more deeply than anyone else can. Our children are extensions of ourselves.”
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Diane Loomans
“If I had my child to raise all over again, I’d build self-esteem first, and the house later. I’d finger-paint more, and point the finger less. I would do less correcting and more connecting. I’d take my eyes off my watch, and watch with my eyes. I’d take more hikes and fly more kites. I’d stop playing serious, and seriously play. I would run through more fields and gaze at more stars. I’d do more hugging and less tugging.“
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John K. Rosemond
“Give your children regular, daily doses of Vitamin N. This vital nutrient consists simply of the most character-building two-letter word in the English language No…Unfortunately, many, if not most, of today’s children suffer from Vitamin N deficiency. They’ve been overindulged by well-meaning parents who’ve given them far too much of what they want and far too little of what they truly need.”
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Joe J. Christensen
“Even though your children say, “Well, everyone else is going to stay out until one or two in the morning, and their parents don’t care. Why can’t I? Don’t you trust me?” let them know that there are some things that, as members of your family, you simply do not do. Some parents seem to be almost pathologically concerned about their children’s popularity and social acceptance and go along with many things that are really against their better judgment…For children and parents, standing up for what is right may be lonely at times. There may be evenings alone, parties missed, and movies which go unseen. It may not always be fun. But parenting is not a popularity contest.”
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