"I don't claim to know everything about parenting, but I do know parents do their children a disservice by constantly sugarcoating their shortcomings to protect their feelings."

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Source : "Kid, you are not special" by LZ Granderson, www.cnn.com. June 12, 2012.

LZ Granderson

#Children Quotes #Parent Quotes #Feelings Quotes

“Ask any athlete: We all hurt at times. I'm asking my body to go through seven different tasks. To ask it not to ache would be too much.”
“Kindness and compassion towards all living things is a mark of a civilized society. Conversely, cruelty, whether it is directed against human beings or against animals, is not the exclusive province of any one culture or community of people.”
“I only won $250 all summer. And then I got crippled. I had a horse step on me while performing and it was messed up for a while.”
“You have to be tougher. You have to learn the way to beat your path through, to make yourself felt, and make yourself necessary.”
“I used to be much heavier when I first started out acting and did a lot of crash dieting and a lot of crash exercise - a ton for a month before you burned out. Then I made a decision in my twenties to only do things that I can do for life, so everything's kind of in moderation for me.”
“We will definitely not burn the Koran, no. Not today, not ever.”
“It's hard for me to sympathize with a young person who chooses to go into the military because they know where they're going. I think we need to start depopulating the military.”
“I worked on a case in Pittsburgh that you would call a demonic haunting. Blood would materialize on the walls, crosses were bending, we'd hear sounds. Just crazy things.”

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