"It feels like I'm babysitting in the Twilight Zone. I keep waiting for the parents to show up because we are out of chips and diet cokes."
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"I was raised by my parents to believe that you had a moral obligation to try and help save the world."
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"Parents have to really talk to their children before they leave home."
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"I never set out to be a role model, but I guess parents like it because I am dedicated to school."
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"My parents raised me to never feel like I was entitled to success.That you have to work for it. You have to work so hard for it. And sometimes then you don't even get where you need to go."
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"All conservatives are such from personal defects. They have been effiminated by position of nature, born halt and blind, through luxury of their parents, and can only, like invalids, act on the defensive."
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"Liberty is the great parent of science and of virtue; and a nation will be great in both in proportion as it is free."
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"Force is the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism."
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"Eating disorders can have serious medical and psychological consequences which, left unchecked, can kill. Parents should address this issue and ask their children to discuss how they feel about themselves."
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"Before, I used to ask permission to my parents to leave the house. Now it's - I ask permission to my children to leave the house. They own the house."
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"INTROVERTS are especially vulnerable to challenges like marital tension, a parent’s death, or abuse. They’re more likely than their peers to react to these events with depression, anxiety, and shyness. Indeed, about a quarter of Kagan’s high-reactive kids suffer from some degree of the condition known as “social anxiety disorder,” a chronic and disabling form of shyness."
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"Yes, actually I was pretty amazed by the amount of stuff my parents put up with while I was living in their house. They had experienced all that before with older brothers and sisters, so it was fairly strict. The fear-of-God thing was pretty set and I blindly followed it until I reached a certain age. Then I just began questioning my belief system."
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"Children rarely want to know who their parents were before they were parents, and when age finally stirs their curiosity, there is no parent left to tell them."
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"A tree Cannot grow In its parents' shadows."
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"The amazing thing about becoming a parent is that you will never again be your own first priority."
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"Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out."
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"I am not personally a parent. But I do have two godchildren and am expecting a third. I am naturally concerned for their future. If I ruled the world you could bet your boots that none of them would ever set their eyes on any such contraptions as digital clocks and pocket calculators. But alas, I do not rule the world and that, I am afraid, is the story of my life - always a godmother, never a God."
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"I think the best thing a parent can do, when raising a child, is simply get out of their way."
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"It might be helpful to realize, that very probably the parents of the first native born Martians are alive today."
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"The great task of life is transmission: the task of transmitting the essential tools and graces of life from our parents to our children"
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