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Much as a teacher may wince at the thought, he is also an entertainer—for unless he can hold his audience, he cannot really instruct or edify them.

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What is much harder to handle is the sense that you have to live up to the mark someone else has set for you. The grades become too important, the com...more

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Genuine love for a child, it seems to me, must include a desire for his maturity and ultimately his independence. WAtching a personality unfold is per...more

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And the end of this paradox is that only when the child is thus free can he have the proper attachment to his parents; only when we allow his independ...more

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I am convinced that an immense number of people who have children should not have them, and do not particularly want them, except as "symbols" of fami...more

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And most of the failures in parent-child relationships, from my observation, begin when the child begins to acquire a mind and a will of its own, to m...more