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"The pressures of being a parent are equal to any pressure on earth. To be a conscious parent, and really look to that little being's mental and physical health, is a responsibility which most of us, including me, avoid most of the time because it's too hard."
"One thing I know for sure about raising children is that every single day a kid needs discipline.... But also every single day a kid needs a break."
"Don't try to make children grow up to be like you, or they may do it."
"Better a little chiding than a great deal of heartbreak."
"~We were on a family trip to Death Valley, and there were moments when my husband and I wanted to just leave the kids there - all the whining! You think that no other kid can do it as much as yours. When they're with friends, they're great; when they're in the car with just the family, it's maddening at times. But you adore them anyway.~"
"One thing I had learned from watching chimpanzees with their infants is that having a child should be fun."
"Expectations are resentments under construction."
"The family is the school of duties - founded on love."
"A mother who is really a mother is never free."
"Your children are not your children, they come through you, but they are life itself, wanting to express itself."
"Love is the chain whereby to bind a child to its parents."
"Parents, they're strict on you when you're little, and you don't understand why. But as you get older, you understand and you appreciate it."
"The greatest happiness is family happiness."
"My parents were neither very poor nor conspicuously honest."
"The human heart was not designed to beat outside the human body and yet, each child represented just that - a parent’s heart bared, beating forever outside its chest."
"Children are people, and they should have to reach to learn about things, to understand things, just as adults have to reach if they want to grow in mental stature. Life is composed of lights and shadows, and we would be untruthful, insincere, and saccharine if we tried to pretend there were no shadows. Most things are good, and they are the strongest things; but there are evil things too, and you are not doing a child a favor by trying to shield him from reality. The important thing is to teach a child that good can always triumph over evil."
"And my parents finally realize I'm kidnapped and they snap into action immediately: They rent out my room."
"Of course, everyone's parents are embarrassing. It goes with the territory. The nature of parents is to embarrass merely by existing, just as it is the nature of children of a certain age to cringe with embarrassment, shame, and mortification should their parents so much as speak to them on the street."
"The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears."
"The family should be a closely knit group. The home should be a self-contained shelter of security; a kind of school where life's basic lessons are taught; and a kind of church where God is honored; a place where wholesome recreation and simple pleasures are enjoyed."
