"Your home needs to be a place where your kids can failâ€”and learn from their failure. Surround them with love, show them how important they are to you, but donâ€™t try to undo their failures. Itâ€™s not our job as parents to get our kids off the hook."

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Source : Kevin Leman (2005). “Making Children Mind without Losing Yours”, p.20, Baker Books

Kevin Leman

#Jobs Quotes #Home Quotes #Kids Quotes

“Like any group that has endured much, African Americans have created a strong and mutually reinforcing sense of group identity. That's not a bad thing in and of itself.”
“As an enlisted sailor, I don't feel that the Navy is advancing me in rank fast enough, so I'm going to change my last name to Stains. My guess is they would rather promote me than to have to refer to me as Seaman Stains.”
“Knowledge both enlarges and multiplies our Desires, and the fewer things a Man wishes for, the more easily his Necessities may be supply'd.”

Source : Bernard de Mandeville (1723). “The Fable of the Bees”, p.154, Jazzybee Verlag
“Whatever the thing you wish to say, there is but one word to express it, but one verb to give it movement, but one adjective to qualify it; you must seek until you find this noun, this verb, this adjective.”
“The Indwelling of Christ by faithis to have Jesus Christ continually in oneâ€™s eye, a habitual sight of Him. I call it so because a man actually does not always think of Christ; but as a man does not look up to the sun continually, yet he sees the light of it. So you should carry along and bear along in your eye the sight and knowledge of Christ, so that at least a presence of Him accompanies you, which faith makes.”
“Hatred of evil does not diminish evil, it increases it.”
“If anybody wanted to photograph my life, they'd get bored in a day. 'Heres Matt at home learning his lines. Here's Matt researching in aisle six of his local library'. A few hours of that and they'd go home.”
“I was not born to amuse the Tsars.”

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