"Children do not need superhuman, perfect parents. They have always managed with good enough parents: the parents they happened to have."

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Source : Penelope Leach (1989). “Your baby & child: from birth to age five”, Alfred A. Knopf

Penelope Leach

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“Now that women are jockeys, baseball umpires, atomic scientists, and business executives, maybe someday they can master parallel parking.”
“Israel's flexibility is dependent on its sense of security.”
“There's no field of music which doesn't have good ideas.”
“There is something truly restorative, finally comforting, in coming to the end of an illusion - a false hope.”
“We don't know all the reasons that propel us on a spiritual journey, but somehow our life compels us to go.”
“It seems clear to me that marriage ought to be constituted by children, and relations not involving children ought to be ignored by the law and treated as indifferent by public opinion. It is only through children that relations cease to be a purely private matter.”
“People value honesty. They value integrity. They value competence and courage and all those kinds of things.”
“Time will inevitably uncover dishonesty and lies; history has no place for them.”

Source : "The Fantasy of King Sihanouk" by Philip Gourevitch, www.newyorker.com. October 15, 2012.

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