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Mom always said people worried too much about their children. Suffering when you're young is good for you, she said. It immunized your body and your soul, and that was why she ignored us kids when we cried. Fussing over children who cry only encouraged them, she told us. That's positive reinforcement for negative behavior.
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parents
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Jeannette Walls |
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Instruction is good for a child; but example is worth more.
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lead-by-example
raising-children
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children
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Alexandre Dumas |
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Children who have faith have distinctly different characteristics from those who don't. In fact, one of the main manifestations of a person with strong faith is the ability to give--not just in terms of money or possessions, but also time, love, and encouragement.
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god
raising-children
guidance
parents-quotes
parents-responsibility
encouragement
parenting
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Stormie Omartian |
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Everybody in a village had a role to play in bringing up a child--and cherishing it--and in return that child would in due course feel responsible for everybody in that village. That is what makes life in society possible. We must love one another and help one another in our daily lives. That was the traditional African way and there was no substitute for it. None.
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raising-children
tradition
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Alexander McCall Smith |
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You can't predict the outcome. You can't raise a child and then tell them what to think.
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parenting
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Aimee Bender |
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Like it or not, we either add to the darkness of indifference and out-and-out evil which surround us or we light a candle to see by. We can surely no longer pretend that our children are growing up into a peaceful, secure, and civilized world. We've come to the point where it's irresponsible to try to protect them from the irrational world they will have to live in when they grow up.... Our responsibility to them is not to pretend that if we don't look, evil will go away, but to give them weapons against it.
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growing-up
evil
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