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Parents must not only have certain ways of guiding by prohibition and permission, they must also be able to represent to the child a deep, almost somatic conviction that there is meaning in what they are doing.

— Erik Erikson

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Parents are supposed to instill a sense of right and wrong in their children and then keep up the due diligence necessary to make sure they don't veer off that path.

— LZ Granderson

I believe in allowing your child to be who they want to be - as long as they want to be something great.

— Ciara

As a parent, you have to figure out how to shape your kid's character. You want to have human beings who learn about good character. You have to be able to see your child with clarity, see the good side and the bad side of them, and work on the bad side and make them better so they fulfill their potential.

— Joan Cusack

In order to influence a child, one must be careful not to be that child's parent or grandparent.

— Don Marquis

Children should be led into the right paths, not by severity, but by persuasion.

— Terence

Parents are to be respected - it Is a commandment from God.

— Monica Johnson

I believe that a parent's role is to provide a path or opportunity for their children.

— David Soul

A kid never listens to what his parents tell him to do. The parents actually act as an example of what their kids themselves do.

— Todd Park

✗Opposing Perspectives

It is the uninvolved parent who has to resort to strictness.

— Andrea Bocelli

Parents should have perfect control over their own spirits, and with mildness and yet firmness bend the will of the child until it shall expect nothing else but to yield to their wishes.

— Ellen G. White