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" My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it. "

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" Having a baby is a life-changer. It gives you a whole other perspective on why you wake up every day. "

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" Always kiss your children goodnight, even if they're already asleep. "

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" Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk. "

" My father was a farmer and my mother was a farmer, but, my childhood was very good. I am very grateful for my childhood, because it was full of gladness and good humanity. "

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" Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level. "

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" In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast. Those who once inhabited the suburbs of human contempt find that without changing their address they eventually live in the metropolis. "

" Nothing shortens a journey so pleasantly as an account of misfortunes at which the hearer is permitted to laugh. "

" The more people have studied different methods of bringing up children the more they have come to the conclusion that what good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is the best after all. "

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" Many people think that discipline is the essence of parenting. But that isn't parenting. Parenting is not telling your child what to do when he or she misbehaves. Parenting is providing the conditions in which a child can realize his or her full human potential. "

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" Parenting is not giving your child everything they want. Parenting is not being your child's friend. Parenting is about preparing your child to be a useful and respectful person in society. "

" Parenting is one of the best management training programs there is. "

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" I recommend limiting one's involvement in other people's lives to a pleasantly scant minimum. "

" You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance. "

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" Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence. "

" Parenting now is a two-way relationship where you learn from each other. "

" The secret to success, to parenting, to life, is to not count up the cost. Don't focus on all the steps it will take. Don't stare into the abyss at the giant leap it will take. That view will keep you from taking the next small step. "

" You fall out of your mother's womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave. "

" Even as kids reach adolescence, they need more than ever for us to watch over them. Adolescence is not about letting go. It's about hanging on during a very bumpy ride. "

" Abatement in the hostility of one's enemies must never be thought to signify they have been won over. It only means that one has ceased to constitute a threat. "

" Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children. "

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" The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another. "

" There is no job more important than parenting. This I believe. "