"There are no experienced young people. Time makes experience."
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"Respect the child. Be not too much his parent. Trespass not on his solitude."
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"The greatest tragedy of the family is the unlived lives of the parents."
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"In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt, as injustice."
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"The interesting thing about being a mother is that everyone wants pets, but no one but me cleans the kitty litter."
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"It is my pleasure that my children are free and happy, and unrestrained by parental tyranny. Love is the chain whereby to bind a child to its parents."
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"Do you know what you call those who use towels and never wash them, eat meals and never do the dishes, sit in rooms they never clean, and are entertained till they drop? If you have just answered, 'A house guest,' you're wrong because I have just described my kids."
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"Slow parents understand that childrearing should not be a cross between a competitive sport and product-development. It is not a project; it's a journey. Slow parenting is about giving kids lots of love and attention with no conditions attached."
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"Kindness effects more than severity."
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"When correcting a child, the goal is to apply light, not heat."
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"No test tube can breed love and affection. No frozen packet of semen ever read a story to a sleepy child."
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"Perhaps it takes courage to raise children."
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"In the home begins the disruption of the peace of the world."
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"We ought to esteem it of the greatest importance that the fictions which children first hear should be adapted in the most perfect manner to the promotion of virtue."
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"From all wild beasts, a child is the most difficult to handle."
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"~I've learned the value of absorbing the moment. I remember the first time Ripley saw her shadow. My God, it was like shadows had just been invented. It was the most exquisite moment.~"
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"A truly appreciative child will break, lose, spoil, or fondle to death any really successful gift within a matter of minutes."
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"~Before, my career came first. All I had to think about was myself. Now my children prevail. It doesn't mean my career is less important; I just have to position things differently.~"
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"Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children."
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"You may give them your love, but not your thoughts. For they have their own thoughts."
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