Being a parent is tough!

The pressures of being a parent
are equal to any pressure on earth.
To be a conscious parent,
and really look
to that little being’s mental and physical health,
is a responsibility which most of us,
including me,
avoid most of the time
because it’s too hard.
John Lennon
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Being a parent is tough.
If you just want a wonderful little creature to love,
you can get a puppy
Barbara Walters
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A low self-love in the parent desires
that his child should repeat his character and fortune.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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If you raise your children
to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task
they decide upon,
you will have succeeded as a parent
and you will have given your children
the greatest of all blessings.
Brian Tracy
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I suffer
whenever I see
that common sight of a parent
or senior
imposing his opinion
and way of thinking and being
on a young soul to which
they are totally unfit.
Cannot we let people be themselves,
and enjoy life in their own way?
You are trying to make that man another you.
One’s enough.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Parents can give their children everything
except good luck.
Yiddish Proverb
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Listening to parents’ advice
is sort of like watching commercials.
You know what’s coming,
you’ve heard it all before, it’s a big bore,
but you listen anyway
Author Unknown
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Parents can only give good advice
or put them on the right paths,
but the final forming of a person’s character
lies in their own hands.
Anne Frank
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If you look deeply into the palm of your hand,
you will see your parents
and all generations of your ancestors.
All of them are alive in this moment.
Each is present in your body.
You are the continuation of each of these people.
Thich Nhat Hanh
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Where parents do too much for their children,
the children will not do much for themselves.
Elbert Hubbard
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It’s not only children who grow.
Parents do too.
As much as we watch to see
what our children do with their lives,
they are watching us to see what we do with ours.
I can’t tell my children to reach for the sun.
All I can do is reach for it, myself.
Joyce Maynard
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To maintain a joyful family
requires much from both the parents and the children.
Each member of the family has to become,
in a special way,
the servant of the others.
Pope John Paul II
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From the moment of birth,
when the Stone-Age baby
confronts the twentieth-century mother,
the baby is subjected to
these forces of violence called love,
as its father and mother and their parents
and their parents before them,
have been.
These forces are mainly concerned with destroying
most of its potential.
R.D. Laing