Maria Montessori
Educator, Physician
"Free the child's potential, and you will transform him into the world."
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Maria Montessori
Educator, Physician
"Children are human beings to whom respect is due, superior to us by reason of their innocence and of the greater possibilities of their future."
Maria Montessori
Educator, Physician
"Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed."
Brené Brown
Researcher, author, speaker
"Vulnerability sounds like truth and feels like courage. Truth and courage aren't always comfortable, but they're never weakness."
Denis Waitley
Author, Motivational Speaker
"Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision."
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"Where parents do too much for their children, the children will not do much for themselves."
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"Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain."
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"A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child."
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"You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth."
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"When you hold your baby in your arms the first time, and you think of all the things you can say and do to influence him, it's a tremendous responsibility. What you do with him can influence not only him, but everyone he meets and not for a day or a month or a year but for time and eternity."
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"I looked on child rearing not only as a work of love and duty but as a profession that was fully as 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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"Everything depends on upbringing."
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"If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed."
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"The most loving parents and relatives commit murder with smiles on their faces. They force us to destroy the person we really are: a subtle kind of murder."
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"Hugs can do great amounts of good - especially for children."
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"I don't think my parents liked me. They put a live teddy bear in my crib."
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"It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place."
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"The important thing is to teach a child that good can always triumph over evil..."
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"The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widely spread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible."
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"You try as a parent. You love beyond reason. You fight beyond endurance. You hope beyond despair. You never think, until the very last moment, that it still might not be enough."
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"Whatever the parents are doing, the kids will follow suit."
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"The true test of a person's character is how they treat the people in life that they don't need."
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"All of us have moments in our lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them."
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"It's not only children who grow. Parents do too."
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"The best way to make children good is to make them happy."
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