"One important reason to stay calm is that calm parents hear more. Low-key, accepting parents are the ones whose children keep talking."

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Source : Mary Pipher (2005). “Reviving Ophelia”, p.259, Penguin

Mary Pipher

#Children Quotes #Talking Quotes #Keys Quotes

“My writing has a lot of surprising twists,”
“Any theory is better than no theory.”

Source : Textbook of Medicine
“The West is color. Its colors are animal rather than vegetable, the colors of earth and sunlight and ripeness.”
“I kind of wish theyâ€™d shut up,â€ Jack said. â€œDude, true dat,â€ Lend answered. Jack nodded solemnly. â€œFor serious.”
“Loving-kindness is required, but a follower of Christ-just like the Master-will be firm in the truth.”
“Once innocence--an all too-brief state of being, if such a one exists--encounters experience, it is transformed. If that transformation is understood, it becomes knowledge. And if that knowledge is employed, then it becomes wisdom.”
“I regard many of the neoconservatives as personal friends, but that's not stopped them from behaving with extraordinary viciousness towards those of us who raised the immigration issue.”
“I merely observe that all living things are manipulated. As long as there is a will, it is bent and twisted constantly. Only the dead are allowed the luxury of freedom, and then only because they want nothing, and therefore can't be thwarted.”

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