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Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to be wise... specialized competence and success are all that they can imagine. (Alexander Lloyd)
I take a very practical view of raising children. I put a sign in each of their rooms: Checkout Time is 18 years. (Alexander Lloyd)
You have to love your children unselfishly. That is hard. But it is the only way. (Alexander Lloyd)
Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children. (Alexander Lloyd)
No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly. (Alexander Lloyd)
The most important thing that parents can teach their children is how to get along without them. (Alexander Lloyd)
Parenthood is not an object of appetite or even desire. It is an object of will. There is no appetite for parenthood; there is only a purpose or intention of parenthood. (Alexander Lloyd)
Parents are not quite interested injustice, they are interested in quiet. (Alexander Lloyd)
My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it. (Alexander Lloyd)
The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children. (Alexander Lloyd)
If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent. (Alexander Lloyd)
How selfhood begins with a walking away, and love is proved in the letting go. (Alexander Lloyd)
I wish all the mothers, fathers and children out there realize how much I need them and how much I value their support. (Alexander Lloyd)
The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one. (Alexander Lloyd)
Is the parent better than the child into whom he has cast his ripened being? Whence, then, this worship of the past? (Alexander Lloyd)
A mother is not a person to lean on but person to make leaning unnecessary. (Alexander Lloyd)
Let your children go if you want to keep them. (Alexander Lloyd)
Love well, whip well. (Alexander Lloyd)
To nourish and raise children against odds is in any time, any place, more valuable than to fix bolts in cars or design nuclear weapons. (Alexander Lloyd)
A wise parent humors the desire for independent action, so as to become the friend and advisor when his absolute rule shall cease. (Alexander Lloyd)
How many hopes and fears, how many ardent wishes and anxious apprehensions are twisted together in the threads that connect the parent with the child! (Alexander Lloyd)
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