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“So many mothers are unable to let their children go into the adult life and become literally attached to them giving rise to codependency”
“Children of the mentally ill learn early on how not to be a bother, especially if they grew up with neglect. As my sister insisted once, when she was in severe pain after injuring her ankle, 'This ...”
“Joy and grief were mingled in the cup; but there were no bitter tears: for even grief itself arose so softened, and clothed in such sweet and tender recollections, that it became a solemn pleasure,...”
“She could sense the fear and anxiety of babies and younger children upon meeting her for the first time; their wide eyed stares, fidgeting, and outright tantrums. Blaring like little homing beacons...”
“But love and pain are two sides of the same coin. You can't have one without the other. Sometimes that's how we know we're alive.”
“No sight so sad as that of a naughty child," he began, "especially a naughty little girl. Do you know where the wicked go after death?""They go to hell," was my ready and orthodox answer."And what ...”
“Being a good parent requires being an outstanding sales person. Direct communication and motivating our children, or young adults with our ideals isn't easy. It's a lifetime job and job of a lifetime.”
“Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.”
“If we can teach children to think beyond the five senses, we can raise a generation of leaders that will be able to sustain the future.”
“Feel no guilt. Getting married and giving birth does not mean that you have sold your life away to perfectly healthy people who can get their own damn socks.”
“I mean, what do people talk about when they're married?" "Their kids, I guess." "Maybe that's all they have in common.”
“Having children is like living in a frat house - nobody sleeps, everything's broken, and there's a lot of throwing up.”
“Lastly, she pictured to herself how this same little sister of hers would, in the after-time, be herself a grown woman; and how she would keep, through all her riper years, the simple and loving he...”
“You can't give her that!' she screamed. 'It's not safe!'IT'S A SWORD, said the Hogfather. THEY'RE NOT MEANT TO BE SAFE.'She's a child!' shouted Crumley.IT'S EDUCATIONAL.'What if she cuts herself?'T...”
“Children are like sponges and all they really want to do is latch on to someone that inspires them to learn.”
“How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it”
“Nothing's really changed since then, except that now any children we have might be wizards themselves, and I'll be hopelessly outnumbered.”
“Many women to whom I have preached the doctrine of freedom have weakly replied, 'But who is to support the children?' It seems to me that if the marriage ceremony is needed as a protection to insur...”
“But playing your music as loud as you want and coming home drunk aren't real life. Real life, it turns out, is diapers and lawnmowers, decks that need painting, a wife that needs to be listened to,...”
“I'm married. And pregnant.”
