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“It has always been my belief that children inherit the suppressed tendencies of their parents. A clergyman's son frequently shows abnormal tastes for the pleasures that his father denied himself.”

Children Shows Father Belief Parent Pleasure Generations Son Taste Tendencies Denial Denied Abnormal Clergymen

Book:The Story of a Literary Career

Source: The Story of a Literary Career

“There is hardly a more heart-thrilling pleasure enjoyed by mortals, than that which parents feel when seeing their child first being able to 'catch knowledge of objects.”

Feels Firsts Heart Children Able Parent Pleasure Learning Seeing Objects Mortals Enjoyed Thrilling

Author:Sarah Josepha Hale

“Theodosius was chaste and temperate; he enjoyed, without excess, the sensual and social pleasures of the table, and the warmth of his amorous passions was never diverted from their lawful objects. The proud titles of Imperial greatness were adorned by the tender names of a faithful husband, an indulgent father; his uncle was raised, by his affectionate esteem, to the rank of a second parent.”

Source: History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire V3: the History Focus

“The child knows only that he engages in play because it is enjoyable. He isn't aware of his need to play--a need which has its source in the pressure of unsolved problems. Nor does he know that his pleasure in playing comes from a deep sense of well-being that is the direct result of feeling in control of things, in contrast to the rest of his life, which is managed by his parents or other adults.”

Knows Needs Wells Children Doe Play Feelings Problem Parent Pleasure Results Source Adults Direct Pressure Well Being Contrast Enjoyable Unsolved Problems

Author:Bruno Bettelheim

“Love is at the root of all healthy discipline. The desire to be loved is a powerful motivation for children to behave in ways thatgive their parents pleasure rather than displeasure. it may even be our own long-ago fear of losing our parents' love that now sometimes makes us uneasy about setting and maintaining limits. We're afraid we'll lose the love of our children when we don't let them have their way.”

Source: You Are Special: Words of Wisdom for All Ages from a Beloved Neighbor

“I think every parent takes more pleasure in seeing their child succeed than seeing themselves succeed.”

Thinking Children Parent Pleasure Seeing Succeed

Author:Jerry Reinsdorf

“In the past the intrinsic pleasures of parenthood for most American families were increased by the extrinsic economic return thatchildren brought. Today, parents have children despite their economic cost. This is a major, indeed a revolutionary, change.”

Children Today Past Parent Pleasure Economic Return Cost Majors Despite Revolutionary Parenthood American Family Revolutionary Change

Book:All Our Children: The American Family Under Pressure

Source: All Our Children: The American Family Under Pressure

“They [parents] can help the children work out schedules for homework, play, and television that minimize the conflicts involved inwhat to do first. They can offer moral support and encouragement to persist, to try again, to struggle for understanding and mastery. And they can share a child's pleasure in mastery and accomplishment. But they must not do the job for the children.”

“I learned that sex was not a question of victory or defeat, of pleasure or profit: of a hand's manipulation and a physical response: I learned that in its purest pleasure it belongs to neither of those who practise it, in the same way as a child belongs to neither parent: it is a free spirit: it simply exists.”

Way Children Hands Spirit Sex Parent Pleasure Victory Response Defeat Profit Manipulation Free Spirit Practise

Author:Fay Weldon

“The right to life does not depend, and must not be declared to be contingent, on the pleasure of anyone else, not even a parent or sovereign.”

Doe Parent Pleasure Depends Abortion Sovereign Pro Life Right To Life Human Rights Day Anti Abortion Catholic Pro Life

Author:Mother Teresa