"Our instinct as parents is to order our……" — Bruce Feiler
"Our instinct as parents is to order our kids around — it's easier, and frankly, we're usually right. [But] reverse the waterfall as much as possible. Enlist the children in their own upbringing."
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44 Quotes by Bruce Feiler
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The key idea of agile is that teams essentially manage themselves. ... It works in software, and it turns out…
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There is profundity to explore, but also laundry to do.
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The higher the joy is not the light, it's the reflection. The greater pleasure is not climbing up; it's handing…
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May your first word be adventure and last word love.
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But humans disappoint. Adam, in tasting the fruit, indicates that he prefers Eve to God, so God banishes them.
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One day, my daughter Tybee came to me, and she said, ‘I have so much love for you in my…
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Children who plan their own goals, set weekly schedules, evaluate their own work build up their frontal cortex and take…
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It's like they say in the Internet world — if you're doing the same thing today you were doing six…
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After a while, a surprising theme emerged. The single most important thing you can do for your family may be…
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Knowing more about family history is the single biggest predictor of a child's emotional well-being. Grandparents can play a special…
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I grew up as a fifth-generation Jew in the American South, at the confluence of two great storytelling traditions. After…
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When I was growing up, I, like many Jews, cheered what appeared to be the receding of faith from everyday…
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Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I…
— Asia Argento
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Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them…
— Aristotle
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Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.
— Aristotle
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There's love, and certainly children you care about more than yourself. But nevertheless, we're alone in our heads.
— Paul Auster
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Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision.
— Dick Armey
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Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they…
— Richard Armour
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If you have children, you don't want to have drugs and drinks in the house. It's just not good.
— Billie Joe Armstrong
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To suggest that God specifically created a worm to torture small African children is blasphemy as far as I can…
— David Attenborough
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Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized.
— Margaret Atwood
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I didn't go to school for a full year until I was 12. In the summer I was a wild…
— Margaret Atwood
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The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from…
— John James Audubon
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