#hi

Resolution, like responsibility, is a product of ownership, and kids can't resolve a conflict until they figure out how they contributed to it. ↗

— Richard Eyre

#conflict #entitlement #kids #ownership #parenting

Moments of quiet friendship are what make life-everyone's life-grand ↗

— Luis Carlos Montalván

#friendship

Guilt is a feeble emotion. It surrenders too easily ↗

— Deborah McKinlay

#relationships #women-s-literary #family

Christmas: the one time of year when you can’t avoid the nuts in your family muesli. ↗

— Charles Stross

#family

If you have but one friend, make sure you choose her well. ↗

— Muriel Barbery

#friendship

It is pardonable for children to yell that they believe in fairies, but it is somehow sinister when the piping note shifts from the puerile to the senile. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#fairies #hero-worship #john-f-kennedy #kennedy-family #politics

He lied all the time even when there was no need to lie [...] He needed a _history_, a sense of self. [Burnside on his father, p. 22] ↗

— John Burnside

#father #history #lies #family

Love is friendship set to music. ↗

— Jackson Pollock

#love #music #friendship

In the adjustment of the new order of things, we women demand an equal voice; we shall accept nothing less. ↗

— Carrie Chapman Catt

#adjustment #demand #equal #less #new

Individuality, family, and community are, by definition, expressions of singular organization, never of "one-right-way" thinking on the grand scale. Children and families need some relief from government surveillance and intimidation if original expressions belonging to THEM are to develop. Without these freedom has no meaning. ↗

— John Taylor Gatto

#children #education-system #family #freedom #education