Great Throughts Treasury

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Elsie Landon Buck

Successful parenthood is built on three great principles which cut deep into the foundations of a structure, support and stimulate the right formation of habit in the building of life. They are love, discipline, and security. Without all these, a child's life is stunted from the very beginning.

Beginning | Discipline | Habit | Life | Life | Love | Principles | Right | Security | Wisdom |

Robert M. Linder, fully Robert Mitchell Linder

Supported by the authority of all institutions, parenthood has come to amount to little more than a campaign against individuality. Every father and every mother trembles lest an offspring, in act or thought, should be different from his fellows; and the smallest display of uniqueness in a child becomes the signal for the application of drastic measures aimed at stamping out that small fire of noncompliance by which personal distinctness is expressed. In an atmosphere of anxiety, in a climate of apprehension, the parental conspiracy against children is planned.

Anxiety | Anxiety | Authority | Children | Conspiracy | Display | Father | Individuality | Little | Mother | Thought | Child |

Ellen Goodman

The central struggle of parenthood is to let our hopes for our children outweigh our fears.

Children | Struggle |

Peter De Vries

There are times when parenthood seems nothing more than feeding the hand that bites you.

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