Michele Borba famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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It isn't the size of the family, it's the interactions of the members inside.
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Personal credibility has everything to do with how others perceive us and how we perceive ourselves. Sandy Allgeier’s book teaches the all-important truth that it doesn’t matter how much money, status, or power you have if nobody believes in you. Every parent should read The Personal Credibility Factor and instill its lessons in their kids.Achieving a full understanding of these principles is the first step in becoming a truly great human being.
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Kids everywhere need to feel safe, hopeful, connected and appreciated.
-- Michele Borba
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The mind is like the stomach. It not how much you put into it, but how much it digests.
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Was it Gorky who said: "If your children are no better than you are, you have fathered in vain, indeed you have lived in vain.
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Expectations are resentments under construction.
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What's a good investment? Go home from work early and spend the afternoon throwing a ball around with your son.
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Screaming at children over their grades, especially to the point of the child's tears, is child abuse, pure and simple. It's not funny and it's not good parenting. It is a crushing, scarring, disastrous experience for the child. It isn't the least bit funny.
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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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The children who are appreciated for what they are, even if they are homely, or clumsy, or slow, will grow up with confidences in themselves - happy. They will have a spirit that will make the best of all the capacities that they have, and of all the opportunities that come their way. They will make light of any handicaps.
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The more flexible an economy, the greater its ability to self-correct in response to inevitable, often unanticipated, disturbances and thus to contain the size and consequences of cyclical imbalances.
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You really expose yourself when you try and go to up the volume and up the size of your performance.
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But Hale wasn't just a member of her crew who had messed up. He was Hale. Her Hale. And Kat just wanted him back.
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