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Life affords no greater responsibility, no greater privilege, than the raising of the next generation. (Snowdon Lisa)
Your responsibility as a parent is not as great as you might imagine. You need not supply the world with the next conqueror of disease or major motion-picture star. If your child simply grows up to be someone who does not use the word collectible as a noun, you can consider yourself an unqualified success. (Snowdon Lisa)
Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain. (Snowdon Lisa)
The word no Carries a lot more meaning when spoken by a parent who also knows how to say yes. (Snowdon Lisa)
Oh, high is the price of parenthood, and daughters may cost you double. You dare not forget, as you thought you could, that youth is a plague and a trouble. (Snowdon Lisa)
Oh, high is the price of parenthood, and daughters may cost you double. You dare not forget, as you thought you could, that youth is a plague and a trouble. (Snowdon Lisa)
I wish you would moderate that fondness you have for your children. I do not mean you should abate any part of your care, or not do your duty to them in its utmost extent, but I would have you early prepare yourself for disappointments, which are heavy in proportion to their being surprising. (Snowdon Lisa)
The most loving parents and relatives commit murder with smiles on their faces. They force us to destroy the person we really are: a subtle kind of murder. (Snowdon Lisa)
Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers. (Snowdon Lisa)
Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore. (Snowdon Lisa)
The parent is low, who having children, truly feels bored. (Snowdon Lisa)
Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence. (Snowdon Lisa)
Maternity is a matter of fact, paternity is a matter of opinion. (Snowdon Lisa)
You must not expect old heads upon young shoulders. (Snowdon Lisa)
He that does not bring up his son to some honest calling and employment, brings him up to be a thief. (Snowdon Lisa)
I am the slave of my baptism. Parents, you have caused my misfortune, and you have caused your own. (Snowdon Lisa)
Parents giving the keys to the car act as if they are giving the keys to the kingdom. (Snowdon Lisa)
Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality. (Snowdon Lisa)
The question that is so clearly in many potential parents minds: Why should we stunt our ambitions and impoverish our lives in order to be insulted and looked down upon in our old age? (Snowdon Lisa)
Parents learn a lot from their children about coping with life. (Snowdon Lisa)
Perhaps the best function of parenthood is to teach the young creature to love with safety, so that it may be able to venture unafraid when later emotion comes; the thwarting of the instinct to love is the root of all sorrow and not sex only but divinity itself is insulted when it is repressed. To disapprove, to condemn --the human soul shrivels under barren righteousness. (Snowdon Lisa)
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