"You may strive to be like them but seek not to make them like you. For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday."
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"In the midst of the affliction He counsels, strengthens confirms, nourishes, and favors us.... More over, when we have repented, He instantly remits the sins as well as the punishments. In the same manner parents ought to handle their children."
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"...the love, respect, and confidence of my children was the sweetest reward I could receive for my efforts to be the woman I would have them copy."
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"Youth should stay away from all evil, especially things that produce wickedness and ill-will."
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"For life goes not backward, nor tarries with yesterday."
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"If you want to move people, it has to be toward a vision that's positive for them, that taps important values, that gets them something they desire and it has to be presented in a compelling way so that they feel inspired to follow."
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"~I'm strict about manners. I think that kids have a horrible time with other people if they have bad manners.... The one thing you've got to be prepared to do as a parent is not to be liked from time to time.~"
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"Without the support from religion--remember, we talked about it--no father, using only his own resources, would be able to bring up a child."
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"When your kids come home, they don't necessarily want to talk to you. They just want to know you're standing there, ready to talk."
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"Nothing is more characteristically juvenile than contempt for juvenility. . . youth's characteristic chronological snobbery."
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"Don't reward bad behavior. It is one of the first rules of parenting. During the financial cataclysm of 2008, we said it differently. When we bailed out banks that had created their own misfortune, we called it a 'moral hazard,' because the bailout absolved the bank's bad acts and created an incentive for it to make the same bad loans again."
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"What is a child? Ignorance. What is a child? Want of instruction."
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"My father liked me, when I wasna being an idiot. And he loved me, too -- enough to beat the daylights out of me when I was being an idiot. Jamie Fraser"
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"He thought about the story his daughter was living and the role she was playing inside that story. He realized he hadn't provided a better role for his daughter. He hadn't mapped out a story for his family. And so his daughter had chosen another story, a story in which she was wanted, even if she was only being used. In the absence of a family story, she'd chosen a story in which there was risk and adventure, rebellion and independence."
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"But she needs me more than she needs him and I guess being needed is almost as good as being loved. Maybe better."
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"When I was a young man, I didn't think about having a family. My wife and I were too poor to have babies. Then all of a sudden, one came along and scared the hell out of us because we had no money. Once the baby arrives, you make do somehow. You fall in love with the baby and life adjusts itself. You find you don't need as much money as you thought. When that happens, you can ask the questions that should have come before the baby."
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"I would have made a terrible parent. The first time my child didn't do what I wanted, I'd kill him."
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"Parenting is an impossible job at any age."
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"~There are moments when I feel like I have a looong road ahead of me, with college and dating and driving and all of that. But then I realize it just means that I have so much time left to enjoy my kids. And it really does go by so quickly.~"
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"~I've never met a 2-year-old who is terrible. I'm so cool with every stage my daughter goes through. I just think she's amazing. I hope she's not looking at me thinking, Mom, are the terrible 30s coming on with you?~"
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