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Parents learn the uses of power and its limits. They can insist on certain outward behavior but cannot change inner attitudes. They can require obedience but not goodness - and certainly not love.

— Philip Yancey

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

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

— Monica Johnson

In theory, parents are supposed to empathize with one other - find common cause in the fervent desire to preserve and protect the world for the next generation, and connect on some deep, almost mystical level that those poor souls who have not experienced this kind of all-consuming love cannot possibly comprehend.

— Adam Mansbach

Children can be disciplined with love.

— Gordon B. Hinckley

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

The great model of the affection of love in human beings is the sentiment which subsists between parents and children.

— William Godwin

I think being a parent is knowing how to love. Sometimes love is discipline, sometimes it's humor, sometimes it's listening.

— Melissa Etheridge

Our parents have, by far, the greatest influence on shaping who we are and how we deal with the world.

— Mamie Gummer

✗Opposing Perspectives

When a child does bad things, the parents are always going to love their child even if they do something bad.

— Selena

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

The influence of one's parents is powerful and permanent.

— Faye Wattleton