Looking after a very sick child was the Olympics of parenting.
– Chris Cleave
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- You want to know what I want? I’m sick of being a guinea pig. I’m sick, but I’m never f*cking sick enough for this family. – Jodi Picoult
- Responsible parenting is NOT a crime. Responsible parenting is most valuable tool of our society. – Mick Karabegovic
- You are a sick, sick man,- I told him.-œThank you,- Ben replied, looking modest. – Patricia Briggs
- You love your child for who the child is, not as an extension of your identity or as an example of your good parenting or even as a companion. – Robert Fritz
- Work diligently. Work hard. Focus. Perform as if you are at the Olympics. One day, unexpectedly, it will start paying off. – Joan Marques
- If you want to know the value of half a second, ask the person who came second in a sprint event at the Olympics. – Sunday Adelaja
- When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I reasoned as a child, but when I became a man, I put away childish things. – Holy Bible
- They spoke of small things at first, since it was best, when reattaching threads, to begin with the easiest knots. – Chris Cleave
- People spoke in whispers, as if the war was listening – Chris Cleave
- She knew, now, why her father had not spoken of the last war, nor Alistair of his. It was hardly fair on the living. – Chris Cleave
- The first problem of war was that no one was any good at it yet. – Chris Cleave
- Then I’m tempted to die just to -¦ spite him.--œThat’s the spirit that will win us the war. – Chris Cleave
- Everything can be restored. If one won’t believe that, how does one endure all this? – Chris Cleave
- This helpful war. It makes us better people and then it tries to kill us. – Chris Cleave
- You are a mousetrap of a friend, all soft cheese and hard springs – Chris Cleave
- Exposing corruption, brandishing truth. – Chris Cleave
- I want to be a journalist again. I want to make a difference in the world. – Chris Cleave
- What is the good of influence if one can only use it on strangers? – Chris Cleave
- There are countries of the world, and regions of one’s own mind, where it is unwise to travel. – Chris Cleave
- Andrew had a gift for deepening the incision he began. – Chris Cleave
- Even I, as sick as I am, I would never be you. Even I, sick and depraved, a traveler to the grave, I would never be you. – Morrissey
- He thought that he was sick in his heart if you could be sick in that place. – James Joyce
- I’m sick of the images trapped in my headI’m sick of being preoccupied with the dead – JessicaLynn Barbour
- We spend the first half of our lives making ourselves sick, and the second half of our lives trying to make ourselves un-sick.- -“ Kevin W. Reese – Kevin W Reese
- A people are as healthy and confident as the stories they tell themselves. Sick storytellers can make nations sick. – Ben Okri
- To conform to a sick society is to become sick. – Richard J Foster
- sick of it whatever it’s called sick of the namesI dedicate every pore to what’s here – Ikkyu
- There’s only one thing worse than being sick…and that’s being sick and poor. – Lou Silluzio
- I’ve had a lot of lieutenants over the years, and all the good ones were sick, sick individuals. You might be the best one yet. – Henry V ONeil
- Oh my God, I am such a liar. And I can’t even leave it at just one lie, either. Oh, no. I have to pile it on. I am sick, I tell you. Sick. – Meg Cabot
- Till we recognize what’s sick and messed up about ourselves this world is gonna stay sick and messed up. – Lacey Sturm
- When you’re sick, you can never get your mind straight. But if you’re passionate and sick, you’ll find a way to write down something. – BA Gabrielle
- Maybe that was the answer to good parenting-”pretending the first child was the second. – Emma Straub
- Parenting the outside of the child is as useless as polishing a rotten apple. – Benjamin Lotter
- If you’re looking for an excuse to quit you will find it, but if you are looking for the reason to continue you must fight for it. – Chris Burkmenn
- If you are looking for an excuse to quit you will find it, but if you are looking for a reason to continue you must fight for it. – Chris Burkmenn
- Spanking a child is about the parent not the child. The child will learn more from positive correction than physical manipulation. – Asa Don Brown
- Don’t put your child at risk. Limit unsupervised one-on-one time between your child & another adult or another child. – Carolyn Byers Ruch
- 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
- Having a child who is struggling doesn’t make you a bad parent, just as being a child who is struggling doesn’t make your child a bad kid. – Ann Douglas