Where did we ever get the crazy idea that in order to make children do better, first we have to make them feel worse? Think of the last time you felt humiliated or treated unfairly. Did you feel like cooperating or doing better?

Jane Nelson

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Children are human beings to whom respect is due, superior to us by reason of their innocence and of the greater possibilities of their future… Let us treat them with all the kindness which we would wish to help to develop in them.

Maria Montessori

Racism is still with us. But it is up to us to prepare our children for what they have to meet, and, hopefully, we shall overcome.

I love my father as the stars - he's a bright shining example and a happy twinkling in my heart.

Terri Guillemets

I had a c-section and I found it fascinating. I didn't find it a sacrifice and I didn't find it a painful experience. I found it a fascinating miracle of what a body can do.

It is not what you do for your children, but what you have taught them to do for themselves, that will make them successful human beings.

A good way to prepare yourself for parenthood is to talk to rocks because they have similar listening habits.

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