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> [“Your job as a parent is not to make your child's way smooth, but rather to help her develop inner resources so she can cope.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ellyn-satter/your-job-as-a-parent-is-not-to-make-your-child-s-way-smooth-but/)

[Ellyn Satter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ellyn-satter/)

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## More by Ellyn Satter

> [“impose certain foods, or amounts of food, or feeding schedules. Whenever you impose rigid expectations, feeding will be distorted.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ellyn-satter/impose-certain-foods-or-amounts-of-food-or-feeding-schedules-whenever/)

[Ellyn Satter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ellyn-satter/)

> [“work any better to be overmanaging with a sick child than with a well child. Advances”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ellyn-satter/work-any-better-to-be-overmanaging-with-a-sick-child-than-with-a-well/)

[Ellyn Satter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ellyn-satter/)

> [“Your job as a parent is not to make your child's way smooth, but rather to help her develop inner resources so she can…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ellyn-satter/your-job-as-a-parent-is-not-to-make-your-child-s-way-smooth-but/)

[Ellyn Satter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ellyn-satter/)

> [“Wesley remembered his mother as a horrible cook who would load up his plate with food he loathed and insist he eat it all—or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ellyn-satter/wesley-remembered-his-mother-as-a-horrible-cook-who-would-load-up-his/)

[Ellyn Satter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ellyn-satter/)

> [“management attitudes and behaviors. Most, if not all, adolescent and adult eating disorders, obsessive”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ellyn-satter/management-attitudes-and-behaviors-most-if-not-all-adolescent-and/)

[Ellyn Satter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ellyn-satter/)

> [“A 1956 professional journal article recommended solid foods on the second or third day of life and encouraged omitting the night feeding by age…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ellyn-satter/a-1956-professional-journal-article-recommended-solid-foods-on-the/)

[Ellyn Satter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ellyn-satter/)

> [“is managed can have an enormous impact on the way a child feels about herself and about the world.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ellyn-satter/is-managed-can-have-an-enormous-impact-on-the-way-a-child-feels-about/)

[Ellyn Satter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ellyn-satter/)

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