Treat your kid like a darling for the first five years. For the next five years, scold them. By the time they turn sixteen, treat them like a friend. Your grown up children are your best friends.
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Enjoy the little fun things - like taking your kids to school - before they're all grown up.
Don't give up on the child. Give the child an education. Give them daily love.
Perhaps the soundest advice for parents is: Lighten up. People have been raising children for approximately as long as there have been people.
Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.
The youth are very important to me, they're the next generation, but I want to instill in kids, even in playing, that it's never too late and there's no right or wrong way to do anything.
I think the best thing that you can do with your kids is to talk to them like they're human beings, not like they're children and they don't know what they're doing.
As a parent, your perspective of childhood is through the eyes of this person that you care so much about and you just want the world to be great for them. You want their life to be easy and happy.
Love your friends' kids, even if you don't want or like children. Just do it.
It's very important to be in your child's life and know what's going on and be there with them.
Once your kid reaches middle school, parents are really supposed to fade out of the social picture. Kids are supposed to make their own plans, keep up with sophisticatedly crude discussions, and be able to go out on their own without supervision.