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Responsibility For Children Quotes

“Perhaps one reason that many working parents do not agitate for collective reform, such as more governmental or corporate child care, is that the parents fear, deep down, that to share responsibility for child rearing is to abdicate it.”

“Modern children were considerably less innocent than parents and the larger society supposed, and postmodern children are less competent than their parents and the society as a whole would like to believe. . . . The perception of childhood competence has shifted much of the responsibility for child protection and security from parents and society to children themselves.”

“If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.”

“Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.”

“Life affords no greater responsibility, no greater privilege, than the raising of the next generation”

“The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.”