All the time a person is a child he is both a child and learning to be a parent. After he becomes a parent he becomes predominantly a parent reliving childhood.

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There is no greater excitement than to support an intellectual wife and have her support...

There is no greater excitement than to support an intellectual wife and have her support...

Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do

Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do

Perhaps a child who is fussed over gets a feeling of destiny; he thinks he...

Perhaps a child who is fussed over gets a feeling of destiny; he thinks he...

Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled

Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled

The more people have studied different methods of bringing up children the more they have...

The more people have studied different methods of bringing up children the more they have...

When women are encouraged to be competitive, too many of them become disagreeable.

When women are encouraged to be competitive, too many of them become disagreeable.

Every child senses, with all the horse sense that's in him, that any parent is...

Every child senses, with all the horse sense that's in him, that any parent is...

I would say that the surest measure of a man's or a woman's maturity is...

I would say that the surest measure of a man's or a woman's maturity is...

You know more than you think you do.

You know more than you think you do.

Trust yourself, you know more than you think you do.

Trust yourself, you know more than you think you do.

There are only two things a child will share willingly -- communicable diseases and his...

There are only two things a child will share willingly -- communicable diseases and his...

The more people have studied different methods of bringing up children the more they have...

The more people have studied different methods of bringing up children the more they have...

There are only two things a child will share willingly; communicable diseases and its mother's...

There are only two things a child will share willingly; communicable diseases and its mother's...

I was proud of the youths who opposed the war in Vietnam because they were...

I was proud of the youths who opposed the war in Vietnam because they were...

The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.

The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.

There are only two things a child will share willingly: communicable diseases and his mother's...

There are only two things a child will share willingly: communicable diseases and his mother's...

Every child senses, with all the horse sense that's in him, that any parent is...

Every child senses, with all the horse sense that's in him, that any parent is...

Are you angry that others disappoint you? remember you cannot depend upon yourself

Are you angry that others disappoint you? remember you cannot depend upon yourself

I would not look upon anger as something foreign to me that I have to...

I would not look upon anger as something foreign to me that I have to...

Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition....

Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition....

I've come to the frightening conclusioin that I am the decisive element in the classroom....

I've come to the frightening conclusioin that I am the decisive element in the classroom....

Where are they now that we, the men whom they sent off to war, have...

Where are they now that we, the men whom they sent off to war, have...

In this country, it doesn't make any difference where you were born. It doesn't make...

In this country, it doesn't make any difference where you were born. It doesn't make...

Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart...

Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart...