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“It's hard for a parent to accept that you can't protect your child from everything." "It's hard for a child to accept it too," says Elsa, and pats him on the cheek.”

Children Growing Up Parents

Book:My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry

Source: My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry

“You don't have to like all children. Just one. And children don't need the world's best parents, just their own parents. To be perfectly honest with you, what they need most of the time is a chauffeur.”

Children Parents

Book:Anxious People

Source: Anxious People

“Children's screams aren't their best weapon. Silence is. The only advantage parents have is that it takes kids years to realize that.”

Children Parents

Book:The Winners

Source: The Winners

“In his youth Jim had dreams of becoming a writer. In fact he was still dreaming about that until long into Jack’s childhood. Then he started to dream that Jack might become a writer instead. That’s an impossible thing for sons to grasp, and a source of shame for fathers to have to admit: that we don’t want our children to pursue their own dreams or walk in our footsteps. We want to walk in their footsteps while they pursue our dreams.”

Children Parenting Parents Parenthood Parents And Children

Book:Anxious People

Source: Anxious People

“She doesn't know why, but she's thinking a lot about her parents this summer. When you're a teenager, you want them to be sexless, but somewhere along the way the smallest memories of affection between our parents get imprinted on our DNA. Parents who divorce, like Ana's, can stop a child believing in eternal love. Parents who stick together for a lifetime can make a child take it for granted instead.”

Book:Us Against You

Source: Us Against You

“Being a parent makes you feel like a blanket that’s always too small. No matter how hard you try to cover everyone, there’s always someone who’s freezing.”

Parenting Parents

Book:Beartown

Source: Beartown

“The children's hobbies aren't only the children's hobbies - the parents put just as many hours into them, year after year, sacrificing so much, paying out such huge amounts of money, that their significance eats its way even into adult brains. They started to symbolize other things compensating for or reinforcing the parents' own failures.”

Children Parents Hobbies

Book:Beartown

Source: Beartown

“Children aren't responsible for their parents' happiness, but they still try.”

Children Happiness Parents

Book:My Friends

Source: My Friends

“Parents are defined by their mistakes.”

Mistakes Parents

Book:Anxious People

Source: Anxious People

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