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Nothing could convince Aunt Nelly to let Vlad stay home for the duration of the school year, which just goes to prove that parents and guardians don't care if they're sending you to face bloodthirsty monsters, so long as you get a B in English.


Heather Brewer


#parents #school-is-hell #english

Kronos couldn't have risen if it hadn't been for a lot of demigods who felt abandoned by their parents," I said. "They felt angry, resentful, and unloved, and they had a good reason." Zeus's royal nostrils flared. "You dare accuse-" "No more undetermined children," I said. "I want you to promise to claim your children-all your demigod children-by the time they turn thirteen. They won't be left out in the world on their own at the mercy of monsters. I want them claimed and brought to camp so they can be trained right, and survive." "Now, wait just a moment," Apollo said, but I was on a roll. "And the minor gods," I said. "Nemesis, Hecate, Morpheus, Janus, Hebe--they all deserve a general amnesty and a place at Camp Half-Blood. Their children shouldn't be ignored. Calypso and the other peaceful Titan-kind should be pardoned too. And Hades-" "Are you calling me a minor god?" Hades bellowed.


Rick Riordan


#hades #percy-jackson #zeus #parenting

Don't stand unmoving outside the door of a crying baby whose only desire is to touch you. Go to your baby. Go to your baby a million times. Demonstrate that people can be trusted, that the environment can be trusted, that we live in a benign universe.


Peggy O'Mara


#biological #child #children #instinct #mothering

I cannot have chaos erupting around me until I am prepared for it. I am a collector. I am an observer. I don't participate. My resources, and my standing, must be secure before I can allow the uncertainty of war to crash down upon us.


Derek Landy


#preparedness #war #uncertainty

Are parents always more ambitious for their children than they are for themselves?


Jeffrey Archer


#children #parents #ambition

As someone very sagely said during the parricide trials of the Menendez Brothers: anytime your kids kill you, you are at least partly to blame.


Elizabeth Wurtzel


#personal-responsibility #trials

Breasts are a scandal because they shatter the border between motherhood and sexuality.


Iris Marion Young


#breastfeeding #breasts #children #feminism #motherhood

You cannot let your parents anywhere near your real humiliations.


Alice Munro


#secrets #shame #shame

If you are a parent, open doors to unknown directions to the child so he can explore. Don't make him afraid of the unknown,give him support.


Osho


#parenting

I'm Penryn. I'm named after an exit off Interstate 80." "Nice." They nod as if to say they understand what it's like to have parents like that.


Susan Ee


#parenting






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