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Parent Quotes by Sydney J. Harris
- American parents, on the whole, do not want their sons to be artisans or craftsmen, but business or professional people. As a result, millions of…
- Parents - and teachers too - are woefully short-sighted when they try to protect the child from his mistakes, when they make the "right answer"…
- What is much harder to handle is the sense that you have to live up to the mark someone else has set for you. The…
- Nobody can misunderstand a child as much as his own parents.
- And most of the failures in parent-child relationships, from my observation, begin when the child begins to acquire a mind and a will of its…
- The best combination of parents consists of a father who is gentle beneath his firmness, and a mother who is firm beneath her gentleness.
- The beauty of 'spacing' children many years apart lies in the fact that parents have time to learn the mistakes that were made with the…
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- The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears. — Francis Bacon
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- I'm just curious, who's more fit to raise a child? A loving committed same-sex couple or an unmarried 15-year-old with no income… — Ellen Barkin