Robert Breault Quotes About Children
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We are each a dozen people who were all the same child.
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The advantage of growing up with siblings is that you become very good at fractions.
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If we would listen to our kids, we'd discover that they are largely self-explanatory.
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In the happiest of our childhood memories, our parents were happy, too.
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To trade a childhood wonder for a plausible explanation - is there a worst trade one makes in life?
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All any child needs is the protection of loving parents and an alternative source of information.
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You will find that if you really try to be a father, your child will meet you halfway.
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A child seldom needs a good talking to as a good listening to.
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There is a child in every one of us who is still a trick-or-treater looking for a brightly-lit front porch.
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The trouble with learning to parent on the job is that your child is the teacher.
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What if man were required to educate his children without the help of talking animals.
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I tell my child, if I seem obsessed to always know where you've been, it is because my DNA will be found at the scene.
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For every person you can trust, there was first a child who was trusted.
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The hardest thing about reality is returning to it after an hour inside your child's mind.
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There is an instinct in a woman to love most her own child - and an instinct to make any child who needs her love, her own.
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In childhood, we press our nose to the pane, looking out. In memories of childhood, we press our nose to the pane, looking in.
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What you must accept as a parent is that you cannot always be there for your child without sometimes ruining everything.
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A watched child never learns.
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Each day, awakening, are we asked to paint the sky blue? Need we coax the sun to rise or flowers to bloom? Need we teach birds to sing, or children to laugh, or lovers to kiss? No, though we think the world imperfect, it surrounds us each day with its perfections. We are asked only to appreciate them, and to show appreciation by living in peaceful harmony amidst them. The Creator does not ask that we create a perfect world; He asks that we celebrate it.
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Man, in his sensitivity, does not give names to animals he intends to eat but goes on giving names to children he intends to send to war.
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In a dark moment I ask, "How can anyone bring a child into this world?" And the answer rings clear, "Because there is no other world, and because the child has no other way into it."
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If indeed the death of a child is part of a larger plan, you wonder if God ever considered a smaller plan.
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I have fancied myself a rebel, but at every critical moment of my life, I have been exactly the child my parents raised.
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Today's Parenting Tip: Treat a difficult child the way you would your boss at work. Praise his achievements, ignore his tantrums and resist the urge to sit him down and explain to him how his brain is not yet fully developed.
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Marriage is nature's way of ensuring that a woman picks up some mothering experience before she has her first child.
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Conspicuously absent from the Ten Commandments is any obligation of parent to child. We must suppose that God felt it unnecessary to command by law what He had ensured by love.
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Once you become the mommy or daddy in your child's world, it is the only world in which you exist, no matter how much you fancy there is a separate world of your own.
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The clash between child and adult is never as stubborn as when the child within us confronts the adult in our child.
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If you haven't time to respond to a tug at your pants leg, your schedule is too crowded.
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In every gardener there is a child who believes in The Seed Fairy.
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