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“Come forth, old man,--thy daughter's side Is now the fitting place for thee: When time has quell'd the oak's bold pride, The youthful tendril yet may hide, The ruins of the parent tree.”

Men May Age Parent Sides Tree Pride Daughter Ruins Thee Old Man Fitting Oaks

Book:Woodstock, Complete: Scott's Works Vol.24

Source: Woodstock, Complete: Scott's Works Vol.24

“Single parents in particular may have trouble maintaining themselves as authority figures because of underlying guilt; they feel acontinuing sense that they have deprived their kids of the second parent, and so they tend to give in to the children's requests, even when unreasonable.”

Giving Feels May Children Kids Parent Trouble Figures Particular Discipline Authority Guilt Maintaining Deprived Request Unreasonable Single Parent Authority Figures

Author:Marge M. Kennedy

“Parents are led to believe that they must be consistent, that is, always respond to the same issue the same way. Consistency is good up to a point but your child also needs to understand context and subtlety . . . much of adult life is governed by context: what is appropriate in one setting is not appropriate in another; the way something is said may be more important than what is said. . . .”

Way Needs Believe May Children Said Important Life Is Parent Issues Adults Our Children Setting Settings Your Children Consistent Appropriate Consistency Subtlety

Author:Stanley Greenspan

“When a child has a dream and a parent says, "It's not financially feasible; you can't make a living at that; don't do it," we say to the child, run away from home... You must follow your dream. You will never be joyful if you don't. Your dream may change, but you've got to stay after your dreams. You have to.”

Ifs May Children Home Dream Running Parent Your Dreams Running Away Joyful Follow Your Dreams Dreams You Have Away From Home

Author:Esther Hicks

“A two-year-old can be taught to curb his aggressions completely if the parents employ strong enough methods, but the achievement of such control at an early age may be bought at a price which few parents today would be willing to pay. The slow education for control demands much more parental time and patience at the beginning, but the child who learns control in this way will be the child who acquires healthy self-discipline later.”

Source: The Magic Years: Understanding and Handling the Problems of Early Childhood

“Whenever reality reinforces a child's fantasied dangers, the child will have more difficulty in overcoming them...So, while parents may not regard a spanking as a physical attack or an assault on a child's body, the child may regard it as such, and experience it as a confirmation of his fears that grown-ups under certain circumstances can really hurt you.”

May Children Body Reality Certain Parent Hurt Danger Circumstances Overcoming Difficulty Regard Assault Confirmation Spanking

Author:Selma Fraiberg

“At cheaper and nearer seats of Learning parents with slender incomes may place their sons in a course of education putting them on a level with the sons of the Richest.”

May Courses Parent Levels Education Son Income Seats Cheaper Slender

Book:1816-1828

Source: 1816-1828

“Parents find many different ways to work their way through the assertiveness of their two-year-olds, but seeing that assertiveness as positive energy being directed toward growth as a competent individual may open up some new possibilities.”

Way Years May Two Different Individual Energy Parent Growth Seeing Possibility Different Ways Two Years Competent Positive Energy Assertiveness New Possibilities Two Year Olds

Author:Fred Rogers

“I kind of was shoveled onto a boat at 11 and went to England. I didn't have any parent watching over me. It was very free and may have been a bit of a scary time for me, but I really don't remember much about the voyage apart from playing ping-pong a lot with a couple friends.”

Kind May Has Beens Remember Bits Parent Couple England Scary Boat Voyages Ping Ping Pong

Author:Michael Ondaatje

“If you're raised in a house where it's okay for one group to eat and another to cook, or for one group to get more education money than the other or to be more free than the other, or where one parent gives in to the will of the other or may be verbally or even physically abused by the other. This gives you an idea of human worth.”

Ifs Giving Humans May Ideas House Parent Groups Okay Raised Cooks

Author:Gloria Steinem

“Sometimes ... we find that even when we do our best to serve the Lord, we still suffer. You may know someone who faces these most challenging of circumstances: consider the parent whose child becomes ill, for whom everyone prays and fasts with all their heart and soul, but who ultimately dies. Or the missionary who sacrifices to go on a mission, then develops a terrible illness that leaves him or her severely disabled or in chronic pain.”