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“Parenting is the greatest pay it forward system on earth. We don't owe our parents anything. We owe our children everything. The same was true for our parents. The same will be true for our children.”

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Book:Single Dad Laughing: The Best of Year One

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“Some of our parents were always on our side. Some of our parents chose to banish us rather than see us for who we were. And some of our parents, when they found out we were sick, stopped being dragons and became dragonslayers instead. Sometimes that’s what it takes—the final battle. But it should take much, much less than that.”

Parents

Book:Two Boys Kissing

Source: Two Boys Kissing

“The world as first seen by the child becomes his lifelong standard of excellence, mindless of the fact he is admiring the ruins of his parents.”

Children Progress Parents Ruins Ecology

Book:Where the Wild Things Were: Life, Death, and Ecological Wreckage in a Land of Vanishing Predators

Source: Where the Wild Things Were: Life, Death, and Ecological Wreckage in a Land of Vanishing Predators

“That's peace - real peace. To come to the end - not to have to go on... Yes, peace.”

Death Peace

Book:And Then There Were None

Source: And Then There Were None

“For my success I am immensely grateful to God, my parents, my family, my friends, my teachers and to the books I read.”

“When a child reaches puberty, parents become so curious about their sex lives and whereabouts, put them behind bars to their own detriment. When such a child breaks free, don't be surprised to see him/her in porn movies.”

Humor Parent Freedom Parenting Curiosity Sexuality Parents Awkward Pornography Michael Bassey Johnson Puberty Porn Sex Education Wayward Behind Bars

Author:Michael Bassey Johnson

“We all have to love you, and believe in you, and think you are looking out for our best interests. But look at us, Momma, and really see us.”

Love Trust Sight Parents Mothers See Look Looking Best Interests

Book:Flowers in the Attic

Source: Flowers in the Attic

“He has little hope that university, when he gets there next year, will be any different. Like right now, all these pupils taking notes as if their life depended on it. All for what? he wants to shout. To get into the top university, so that you can somehow convince yourself you are better than the great unwashed? So that your parents can convince themselves that they are better parents than the great unwashed? So that Mum and Dad’s fourteen-hour days at the office, paying for a fucking private education you never asked for, wasn’t just a pathetic waste of a life?”

Life Work University Parents Meaninglessness Of Life

Book:Hurt

Source: Hurt

“A mother is the person who takes care of you when you're sick. The one who holds you when you're afraid. The one who follows the bus to school on the first day to make sure you made it okay. I have only one mother, Nana; he just happens to be my father, too.”

Parents

Book:Homeward Bound

Source: Homeward Bound

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