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" Tell me how a person judges his or her self-esteem, and I will tell you how that person operates at work, in love, in sex, in parenting, in every important aspect of existence - and how high he or she is likely to rise. The reputation you have with yourself - your self-esteem - is the single most important factor for a fulfilling life. "

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" Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision. "

" 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. "

" We've had bad luck with our kids - they've all grown up. "

" I cannot remember a time when the question of why people behave as they do was not intensely interesting to me. The desire to understand was very important. When I was young, I was aware of the fact that much of the time, the reasons a person gave for his actions were not the actual reasons. "

" If I feel good about my parenting, I have no interest in judging other people's choices. If I feel good about my body, I don't go around making fun of other people's weight or appearance. We're hard on each other because we're using each other as a launching pad out of our own perceived deficiency. "

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

" I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection. "

" A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone. "

" When I was a child, I felt at times that I had been born into an insane asylum, that much of human life appeared to be an insane asylum. It was bewildering. "

" The gain is not the having of children; it is the discovery of love and how to be loving. "

Polly Berrien Berends

Gain

Loving

Love

" 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. "

" What lingers from the parent's individual past, unresolved or incomplete, often becomes part of her or his irrational parenting. "

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

" Productive achievement is a consequence and an expression of health and self-esteem, not its cause. "

" 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. "

" The parenting style that is good for grit is also the parenting style good for most other things: Be really, really demanding, and be very, very supportive. "

" The basic idea that incentives can be used to motivate behavior is a powerful one. It works for employees, and it has a clear place in parenting, as anyone who has tried to potty-train a recalcitrant toddler with sticker rewards knows. "

" Self esteem is the reputation we acquire with ourselves. "

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

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

" Childhood is a short season. "

" 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. "

" Not a great deal is known about the factors in childhood that doubtless underlie a person's choice of career - I'm talking now about a career to which one is passionately committed, in contradistinction to a career chosen merely as a means of earning a living. "

" My parents saw their job of parenting as their most important role in life, and I aim to aspire to that. "

" Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to be wise... specialized competence and success are all that they can imagine. "

" The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance. "

" If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much. "

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

" 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. "