"Do you know the best way to make your child unhappy? This will teach him to know nothing of failure ... First, he will require a cane, which you hold; then your watch; then a bird that flies; then the star that shines in heaven; he will demand everything he sees; not being God, how will you satisfy him? "
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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"Curiously: with each generation, children are getting worse, and parents are getting better; hence it follows that more and more good parents grow out of ever worse children "
Wieslaw Brudzinski

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"A father must be a friend and a confidant for his children, and not a tyrant"
Vincenzo Joberti

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"Generally speaking, my children refuse to eat anything that does not dance on TV"
Erma Bombeck

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"If you have never seen a real, full-blown grimace of disgust, just tell your son how you behaved at his age"
Frank Hubbard

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"Every parent must abstain from his children, not only from deeds, but also from words that tend to injustice and violence, such as abuse, vows, fights, all cruelty and the like, and do not allow those surrounding the children him, give them such bad examples "
Catherine II

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"If by forty years a person's room is not filled with children's voices, then it is filled with nightmares"
Charles Saint-Beuve

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"To allow a child everything is to treat him like an adult, and this is the surest way to ensure that he never becomes an adult "
Thomas Szasz

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"To the children, whose teeth are boring, bravely succumb to the violet root!"
Kozma Prutkov

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"The child has a special ability to see, think and feel; there is nothing more stupid than trying to replace this skill with ours "
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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