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From all wild beasts, a child is the most difficult to handle.
Plato
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If you're asking your kids to exercise, then you better do it, too. Practice what you preach.
Bruce Jenner
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The unconditional love for you child, it's truly amazing.
Jourdan Dunn
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Instead of just saying, I love my baby and I pick him up because he's adorable and it's so nice to cuddle with him, we practice attachment parenting. We let our children play outside and have age-appropriate freedoms and are labeled free-range parents.
Alison Gopnik
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(About parenting:) ... all that tedium, broken up by little spurts of high drama.
Anne Tyler
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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.
Betty Smith
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When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.
George Washington Carver
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The trick is to enjoy life. Don't wish away your days waiting for better ones ahead.
Marjorie Pay Hinckley
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In parenting and teaching, let this be our aim: Not to make every idea safe for children, but every child safe for ideas.
Gerhard E Frost
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~One surprise of motherhood for me was how little control I have. I thought it would be a blissful romance with me at the helm, cuddling this little creature. It's been bittersweet and humbling to let her lead and to not try to be perfect myself.~
Amanda Peet
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I don't think children's inner feelings have changed. They still want a mother and father in the very same house they want places to play.
Beverly Cleary
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My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.
Mark Twain
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It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
Frederick Douglass
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To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while. Your children need your presence more than your presents.
Jesse Jackson
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I hope to find the roles that are age appropriate but not yearning to be younger, or parenting ad nauseam.
Debra Winger
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I flung my tongue round like a cat-o'-nine-tails so that my pleasant peaceful infant room became little less than a German concentration camp as I took out on the children what life should have got.
Sylvia Ashton-Warner
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Give a small boy a hammer and he will find that everything he encounters needs pounding.
Abraham Kaplan
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Giving kids whatever they ask for is disastrous parenting. There's no sense of something earned. I'm sorry, but when you're 12, you don't need a new cell phone every few months just because a new one comes out.
Ewan McGregor
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The parents exist to teach the child, but also they must learn what the child has to teach them and the child has a very great deal to teach them
Arnold Bennett
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Whatever the parents are doing, the kids will follow suit.
Bob Harper
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Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth.
Erma Bombeck
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My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.
Quentin Crisp
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Do not raise your children the way your parents raised you they were born for a different time.
Ali ibn Abi Talib
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As a child my family's menu consisted of two choices: take it or leave it.
Buddy Hackett
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