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He died at the wrong time, when there was much to be clarified and established. They hadn’t even started to be grown-ups together. There was this piece of heaven, this little girl he’d carried around the shop on his shoulders; and then one day she was gone, replaced by a foreigner, an uncooperative woman he didn’t know how to speak to. Being so confused, so weak, so in love, he chose strength and drove her away from himself. The last years he spent wondering where she’d gone, and slowly came to realise that she would never return, and that the husband he’d chosen for her was an idiot. ↗


— Hanif Kureishi


#father-daughter #parents #regret #love

I have heard that, with some persons, temperance – that is, moderation – is almost impossible; and if abstinence be an evil (which some have doubted), no one will deny that excess is a greater. Some parents have entirely prohibited their children from tasting intoxicating liquors; but a parent’s authority cannot last for ever; children are naturally prone to hanker after forbidden things; and a child, in such a case, would be likely to have a strong curiosity to taste, and try the effect of what has been so lauded and enjoyed by others, so strictly forbidden to himself – which curiosity would generally be gratified on the first convenient opportunity; and the restraint once broken, serious consequences might ensue. ↗


— Anne Brontë


#children #control #evil #excess #moderation

Parents should also question much of the contemporary emphasis on special materials and equipment for learning in a child's environment. A clutter of toys can be more confusing than satisfying to a child. On the other hand, natural situations, with opportunieties to explore, seldom overstimulate or trouble a small child. Furthermore, most children will find greater satisfaction and demonsstrate greater learning from things they make and do with their parents or other people than from elaborate toys or learning materials. And there is no substitute for solitude - in the sandpile, mud puddle, or play area - for a yound child to work out his own fantasies. Yet this privilege is often denied in our anxiety to institutionalize children. ↗


— Raymond S. Moore


#parents #teaching #nature

I respect you as my king, and I respect you as my father, but I do not respect you as a man! ↗


— Rebecca McKinsey


#elders #parents #respect #royalty #respect

We have fallen upon evil times and the world has waxed very old and wicked. Politics are very corrupt. Children are no longer respectful to their parents. ↗


— King Naram-Sin of Chaldea


#parents #politics #respect

No. Absolutely not. I forbid it. You'll have nightmares." "She was my friend! You must allow me. Why are you so horrid?" As soon as the angry words were out of my mouth, I knew I had gone too far. "Matilda!" Mother rose from her chair. "You are forbidden to pseak to me in that tone! Apologize at once. ↗


— Laurie Halse Anderson


#parents #teenagers #eating-disorders

There is nothing worse that a thirteen-year-old boy. You're embarrassed by your parents, and you're trying to find your independance because, deep inside, you are so dependent on your mom. ↗


— Ben Affleck


#boy #deep #deep inside #dependent #embarrassed

I believe that my parents did wonderful things for us. ↗


— Madeleine Albright


#did #i #i believe #i believe that #parents

My parents were of the generation who thought they were the children of a free Czechoslovakia, the only democracy in central Europe. ↗


— Madeleine Albright


#children #czechoslovakia #democracy #europe #free

It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength. ↗


— Maya Angelou


#diversity #early #parents #people #strength






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