"Many toxic parents compare one sibling unfavorably with another to make the target child feel that he's not doing enough to gain parental affection. This motivates the child to do whatever the parents want in order to regain their favor. This divide-and-conquer technique is often unleashed against children who become a little too independent, threatening the balance of the family system."

-- Susan Forward

#Children Quotes #Sibling Quotes #Independent Quotes

“Enjoy the present hour, Be thankful for the past, And neither fear nor wish Th' approaches of the last.”

Source : Abraham Cowley (2013). “Cowley's Essays”, p.114, Cambridge University Press
“Obstacles can't stop you. Problems can't stop you. Most of all, other people can't stop you. Only you can stop you.”

Source : Twitter post from Nov 26, 2015
“Every thing in this world, said my father, is big with jest,--and has wit in it, and instruction too,--if we can but find it out.”
“My agent called and said, 'How do you feel about a pirate movie? I mean, how often are you going to get that call? It's sort of the singularly most failed genre of our time, but I thought it had to be attempted one more time. I think there's something rebellious about pirates, something revolutionary about them. They came out of a time when things were oppressive; you could get hung for stealing a loaf of bread. For me, the Pirates films are about when it's right to break the rules to achieve what you want.”
“Children are not simply commodities to be herded into line and trained for the jobs that white people who live in segregated neighborhoods have available.”
“The fact is that we as a party at the Republican National Committee registered 3.4 million new voters in the past two years and brought them into the political process. The president won by 3.5 million votes.”
“We all get distracted,Â the question is, would you bounce back or bounce backwards?”
“The finest woman that ever walked the streets.”

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