Two Thoughts (14
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Two Thoughts (14
This is why it’s so crucial that, as parents, we free ourselves of the illusion that it’s our place to approve of who are children are.
His Holiness The Dalai Lama • The Conscious Parent
“I remember perfectly well what life was like before. Well enough to miss some things a lot, like the ability to take off for some other country at a moment’s notice. That was so great. Why did I never do that? … See what I did there? The fact is, most of the freedom I had before kids, I never used. I paid for it in loneliness, but I never used it.
... See moreIf a parent has no other source of self-worth and self-esteem, which is unhappily true of many parents whose lives are limited to raising “good” children, the stage is set for a dependency on children that makes the parent overanxious and severely needful that the children behave in particular ways.
Thomas Gordon • Parent Effectiveness Training: The Proven Program for Raising Responsible Children
(The problem of education hinges on this point. If parents were more developed themselves and rested in their own center, the opposition between authoritarian and laissez-faire education would hardly exist. Needing this being-authority, the child reacts to it with great eagerness; on the other hand, the child rebels against pressure or neglect by p
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