“Common sense should tell us that positively reinforcing sadistic behavior, as these games do, cannot be good for our children.” ShouldChildrenGamesCommonBehaviorOur ChildrenBe GoodCommon SensePositivelySadistic Author:Sam Brownback
“It's a long haul bringing up our children to be good; you have to keep doing that — bring them up — and that means bringing things up with them: Asking, telling, sounding them out, sounding off yourself — finding, through experience, your own words, your own way of putting them together. You have to learn where you stand, and make sure your kids learn [where you stand], understand why, and soon, you hope, they'll be standing there beside you, with you.” WayMeanChildrenLongKidsTogetherParentFindingsStandingAskingOur ChildrenParentingBe GoodStanding ThereHaulBeside YouLong HaulWhere You Stand Author:Erik Erikson
“Especially with our first child, we tend to take too much responsibility--both credit and blame--for everything. The more we wantto be good parents, the more we tend to see ourselves as making or breaking our children.” FirstsChildrenParentResponsibilityToo MuchOur ChildrenBlameCreditBe GoodGood Parent Book:Whole child, whole parent Source: Whole child, whole parent
“We should aim for our children to be good people, and to live ethical lives that manifest concern for others as well as for themselves.” PeopleShouldWellsChildrenConcernOur ChildrenAimBe GoodEthicalManifestGood PeopleConcern For Others Book:Ethics in the Real World: 82 Brief Essays on Things That Matter Source: Ethics in the Real World: 82 Brief Essays on Things That Matter
“You beg for happiness in life, but security is more important to you, even if it costs you your spine or your life. Your life will be good and secure when aliveness will mean more to you than security; love more than money; your freedom more than party line or public opinion; when your thinking will be in harmony with your feelings; when the teachers of your children will be better paid than the politicians; when you will have more respect for the love between man and woman than for a marriage license.” IfsThinkingMenLifeMeanChildrenImportantFeelingsLinesLove IsPartyOpinionTeacherSecurityPoliticianCostMen And WomenPaidHarmonyOur ChildrenBe GoodSecureYour ChildrenLicensePublic OpinionSpineLife HappinessYour Freedom Author:Wilhelm Reich
“When we teach our children to be good, to be gentle, to be forgiving (all these are attributes of God), to be generous, to love their follow men, to regard this present age as nothing, we instill virtue in their souls, and reveal the image of God within them.” MenChildrenSoulAgeTeachVirtueRegardOur ChildrenForgivingParentingBe GoodGentleGenerousAttributesFollow MeGod ImageInstillAttributes Of God Author:Saint John Chrysostom
“Cleverness is a burden after that. You are supposed to settle down and be a good person, raise your children, and be good to your friends, which you may not have been back when you were clever.” MayChildrenPersonsHas BeensOur ChildrenDown AndRaisesBurdenBe GoodCleverSettlingYour ChildrenGood PersonBack WhenClevernessSettling DownBeing A Good Person Author:Garrison Keillor