To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while. Josh Billings

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The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children. King Edward VIII

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The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy. Sam Levenson

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He who boasts of his ancestry is praising the deeds of another. Seneca

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The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato - the best part under ground. Thomas Overbury

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We're brought up, unfortunately, to think that nobody should make mistakes. Most children get de-geniused by the love and fear of their parents - that they might make a mistake. But all my advances were made by mistakes. Buckminster Fuller

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Parents who are both conscientious and realistic discover sooner or later that they cannot do the job to their own complete satisfaction, much less to their children's complete satisfaction. Thomas Sowell

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Our greatest responsibility is to be good ancestors. Jonas Salk

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Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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If you haven’t time to help youngsters find the right way in life, somebody with more time will help them find the wrong way. Frank Clark

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My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it. Clarence Kelland

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Bear constantly in mind the truth that the aim of your discipline should be to produce a self-governing being; not to produce a being to be governed by others. Were your children fated to pass their lives as slaves, you could not too much accustom them to slavery during their childhood; but as they are by and by to be free men, with no one to control their daily conduct, you cannot too much accustom them to self-control while they are still under your eye. Aim, therefore, to diminish the amount of parental government as fast as you can substitute for it in your child’s mind that self-government arising from a foresight of results. Herbert Spencer

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The only way for an adult to raise a great kid is to be a great adult in front of them. Whatever that looks like for them given their circumstances. Children see this. They see you struggling and doing hard things and they can tell. They eat that stuff up. They want to watch you strive and overcome and be a hero. They want to see you being great. There is no other way but to do hard things in front of your kids. It's not about your expectations, it's about what you model for them. Ana Martin

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Emotions, positive and negative, come in two usefully differentiated variants. Satisfaction (technically, satiation) tells us that what we did was good, while hope (technically, incentive reward) indicates that something pleasurable is on the way. Pain hurts us, so we won't repeat actions that produced personal damage or social isolation (as loneliness is also, technically, a form of pain). Anxiety makes us stay away from hurtful people and bad places so we don't have to feel pain. All these emotions must be balanced against each other, and carefully judged in context, but they're all required to keep us alive and thriving. We therefore do our children a disservice by failing to use whatever is available to help them learn, including negative emotions, even though such use should occur in the most merciful possible manner. Jordan Peterson

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