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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. (Snowdon Lisa)
I take a very practical view of raising children. I put a sign in each of their rooms: Checkout Time is 18 years. (Snowdon Lisa)
You have to love your children unselfishly. That is hard. But it is the only way. (Snowdon Lisa)
Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children. (Snowdon Lisa)
No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly. (Snowdon Lisa)
The most important thing that parents can teach their children is how to get along without them. (Snowdon Lisa)
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. (Snowdon Lisa)
Parents are not quite interested injustice, they are interested in quiet. (Snowdon Lisa)
My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it. (Snowdon Lisa)
The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children. (Snowdon Lisa)
If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent. (Snowdon Lisa)
How selfhood begins with a walking away, and love is proved in the letting go. (Snowdon Lisa)
I wish all the mothers, fathers and children out there realize how much I need them and how much I value their support. (Snowdon Lisa)
The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one. (Snowdon Lisa)
Is the parent better than the child into whom he has cast his ripened being? Whence, then, this worship of the past? (Snowdon Lisa)
A mother is not a person to lean on but person to make leaning unnecessary. (Snowdon Lisa)
Let your children go if you want to keep them. (Snowdon Lisa)
Love well, whip well. (Snowdon Lisa)
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. (Snowdon Lisa)
A wise parent humors the desire for independent action, so as to become the friend and advisor when his absolute rule shall cease. (Snowdon Lisa)
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! (Snowdon Lisa)
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