If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent.
– Bette Davis
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- A good parent is not someone that knows how to be a good parent, but knows how to learn how to be a good parent. – Gary Edward Gedall
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- Spanking a child is about the parent not the child. The child will learn more from positive correction than physical manipulation. – Asa Don Brown
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- Being a ‘good’ parent is more about the parent, and, less about the ‘supposedly-could-have-been-bad’ child. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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- I hated this. I hated knowing what I wanted and knowing what was right and knowing that they weren’t the same thing. – Maggie Stiefvater
- If you’re not hated by many, you’re not good enough yet, because God hates and always hated the majority for good reasons. – Daniel Marques
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- You kill one, there was another in his place, and what’s worse, his nephew now hated you, his friend now hated you. . . . There was no end. – Juliana Barbassa
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- I hated the place, Tommy. I hated every second of every day. And it was all -¦ your -¦ fault! – James Dashner
- too much alcohol hampers people’s ability to parent. That’s why I’ve chosen to remain childless. – Kyra Davis
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- There’s a fine line between child-like -“ learning as a child does, the natural way we learn most stuff -“ and being child-ish. – Robin Hoyle
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- Before you find the magic of life you have to open yourself up to the possibility of it being there. – Bette Lee Crosby
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- PartingOne is strong, a child now grownThe other weak, a parent aged-The strong once feebleThe weak once mighty-Time, the infinityhas marked them… – Muse
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