~ Children are natural mimics who act like their parents despite every effort to teach them good manners. ~
~ Sometimes the laughter in mothering is the recognition of the ironies and absurdities. Sometime, though, it's just pure, unthinking delight.
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~ The most important thing she'd learned over the years was that there was no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one.
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~ Parents can plant magic in a child's mind through certain words spoken with some thrilling quality of voice, some uplift of the heart and spirit. ~
~ That’s sort of a cliché about parents. We all believe that our children are the most beautiful children in the world. But the thing is, what no one really talks about is the fact that we all really believe it. ~
~ The truth is that parents are not really interested in justice. They just want quiet. ~
~ Chance makes our parents, but choice makes our friends ~
~ To understand your parents' love you must raise children yourself. ~
~ Where parents do too much for their children, the children will not do much for themselves. ~
~ It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength. ~
~ The joys of parents are secret, and so are their griefs and fears: they cannot utter the one, nor will they utter the other ~
~ Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands. ~