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Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal.
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Our virtues are dearer to us the more we have had to suffer for them. It is the same with our children. All profound affection entertains a sacrifice. Our thoughts are often worse than we are, just as they are often better.
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Ours was a loving, nurturing household, but, at the same time, my parents' goal was to make all their children self-sufficient.
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Outings are so much more fun when we can savor them through the children's eyes.
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Parentage is a very important profession; but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of children.
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Parents - especially step-parents - are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fulfill the promise of their early years.
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Parents and children seldom act in concert: each child endeavors to appropriate the esteem or fondness of the parents, and the parents, with yet less temptation, betray each other to their children.
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Parents are often so busy with the physical rearing of children that they miss the glory of parenthood, just as the grandeur of the trees is lost when raking leaves.
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Parents are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fulfill the promise of their early years.
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Parents are the bones on which children sharpen their teeth.
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Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
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Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children.
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Parents are the ultimate role models for children. Every word, movement and action has an effect. No other person or outside force has a greater influence on a child than the parent.
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Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.
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Parents cannot be in the same physical space as their children at all times.
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Parents have a right to insist that godless evolution not be taught to their children.
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Parents learn a lot from their children about coping with life.
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Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality.
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Parents of young children should realize that few people, and maybe no one, will find their children as enchanting as they do.
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Parents should watch what their children watch and not use TV as a babysitter. If a show is objectionable they should turn it OFF. They should write the president of the network and tell him they are never going to watch that program again and why.
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