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I thank my mother (Ma, you're only second cause you got the dedication), who used to make me write essays whenever I got into trouble, explaining exactly what I'd done and why I'd done it.
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mothers
mothers-and-sons
parenting
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Ta-Nehisi Coates |
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There was the odd suburban thunderbolt, but they were mostly those people who'd found each other; they were golden and bright-lit and funny. Often they seemed in cahoots somehow, like jailbirds who wouldn't leave; they loved us, they us, and that was a pretty good trick.
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parenting
parents
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Markus Zusak |
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Faktum var att han inte kunde vara den sortens pappa langre. Den tiden var forbi. Det var som om Gud plotsligt skulle bestamma sig for att vara Gud igen flera kvadriljoner ar efter att han skapat varlden. Han kunde inte bara dimpa ner fran himlen och saga: A nej, ni borde inte ha placerat Empire State Building dar, och ni borde inte ha ordnat det sa att de afrikanska folken far mindre pengar, och ni borde inte ha latit dem tillverka karnvapen. For da kunde man saga till Honom: Det ar val lite sent att papeka det nu? Var holl du hus medan vi funderade pa de sakerna?
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parenting
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Nick Hornby |
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Children's as good as 'rithmetic to set you findin' out things.
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childhood
children
knowledge
learning
motherhood
parenthood
parenting
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Frances Hodgson Burnett |
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Story telling or teachable moments, provides us with a vast reference base of real life antidotes for possible future problems. They not only entertain and give us a resource of proven solutions, but they also help shape and mold our character. Therefore, when we don't take our time to communicate with our kids, then we rob them of critical life lessons that we and our forefathers learn the hard way - lessons that they would needlessly have to learn through trial and error themselves.
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family-conversations
guidance
life-antidotes
life-lessons
parenting
pep-talk
proven-solutions
real-life
real-talk
storytelling
talking-with-children
teachable-moments
trial-and-error
warnings
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Drexel Deal |
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You have to talk to your children about things, a lot of our parents don't do that. You have to explain things to children as to why certain things happen. I think that a good way of improving comprehension is to read the newspaper with your child. A lot of times certain sensational things happen and children want to find out why it happened. And sometimes you would hear them talking to each other passing on erroneous information. Daynette Gardiner, the best School Psychologist in The Bahamas
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erroneous-information
helping-children
improving-comprehension
newspaper
parenting
reading-to-children
right-information
sensational-news
talking
talking-with-children
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Drexel Deal |
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As parents one of the biggest jobs we have, is teaching our children how to resolve problems effectively. We live in an era where everyone is quick to act the fool over simple issues. As we used to say when I was on the streets, 'everybody wants to cut a movie'.
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conflict-resolution
conflicts
cut-a-movie
letting-go
parenthood
parenting
parents
peace-maker
resolving-problems
simple-issues
street-violence
walking-away
youth-violence
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Drexel Deal |
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I like uncovering the cultural prejudices I didn't even know.
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biases
conventional-wisdom
education
heritage
parenting
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A.J. Jacobs |
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He never cried, not even when his alarm went off. Swaddled in his Moses basket, wires trailing out the bottom, his monitor flashing green, green, green, his entire four-pound body motionless except his eyelids, it seemed he understood everything I was working so hard to understand: his mother's love, his brother's ceasless crying: he was alreday forgiving me my shortcomings as a father; he was a distillation of a dozen generations, all stripped into a single flame and stowed still-burning inside the this slip of his ribs. I'd hold him to the window and he's stare out into the night, blue tributaries of veins pulsing his neck, his big eyelids slipping down now and then, and it would feel as if tethers were falling away, and the two of us were gently rising, through the glass, through the trees, through the interweaving layers of atmosphere, into whatever was beyond the sky.
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nights
parenting
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Anthony Doerr |
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Maybe we swore we would never be harsh with our children the way others were harsh with us. Then, just when they need us most - when they act up and misbehave and call us names and son on - we get angry and punish them, or feel hurt and block them out. We momentarily forget how fragile our little ones are, just as they forget about cooperation or sharing or calming down and following the rules.
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parent-feelings
parenting
punishment
tantrums
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Lawrence J. Cohen |
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As Plato: What is play and delightful one kind of child is coercion and torture for another, and will not take no matter how much coercion is applied.
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education
parenting
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Rebecca Goldstein |
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We just want you to be happy. Rand and Marybeth said that all the time, but they never explained how.
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parenting
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Gillian Flynn |
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Each of Nora's children had arrived on this earth as him or herself, the more she knew them, the more she felt it to be true. They were so different from one another, and from her.
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growing-up
individuality
mother
motherhood
parenthood
parenting
parents
personality
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J. Courtney Sullivan |
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She didn't know how to hate her mother yet, but every time she left her father crying in the airport she came that much closer to figuring it out.
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parenting
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Ann Patchett |
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At least he kept trying to express himself, his real self, as motley and inchoate for now as the outfit he was wearing. And maybe that was part of the purpose of middle school: to give you something to work against, to press upon, as you attempted to fashion a self from the lump of contradictory impulses and emotions and paradigms that your mind and your culture presented.
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parenting
teenagers
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Michael Chabon |
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"I myself," said Gibbon, "am slightly underdone in the personal worthlessness line. It was Papa's fault. He used no irony. The communications mix offered by the parent to the child is as you know twelve percent do this, eighty-two percent don't do that, and six percent huggles and endearments. That is standard. Now, to avoid boring himself or herself to death during this monition the parent enlivens the discourse with wit, usually irony of the cheaper sort. The irony ambigufies the message, but more importantly establishes in the child the sense of personal lack-of-worth. Because the child understands that one who is talked to in this way is not much of a something. Ten years of it goes a long way. Fifteen is better. That is where Pap fell down. He eschewed irony."
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parenting
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Donald Barthelme |
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"Good tennis players are those who beat other tennis players, and a good shot during play is one the opponent can't return. But that's not a truth about life or excellence -- it's a truth about tennis. We've created an artificial structure in which one person can't succeed without doing so at someone else's expense, and then we accuse anyone who prefers other kinds of activities of being naive because "there can be only one best -- you're it or you're not," as the teacher who delivered that much-admired you're-not-special commencement speech declared. You see the sleight of hand here? The question isn't whether everyone playing a competitive game can win or whether every student can be above average. Of course they can't. The question that we're discouraged from asking is why our games are competitive -- or our students are compulsively ranked against one another -- in the first place."
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parenting
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Alfie Kohn |