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Part of our responsibility as parents, as adults, is to set examples for children. But we have to like children in order to be really happy fulfilled adults.

I always told my children when they whined... Only the boring are bored.

I just want my children to be happy. I want my children to be healthy.

I'm not accepting of whiners.

That's what I think our jobs as parents are, to educate as much as possible... I tell them to follow their bliss. The people who follow their bliss in this world tend to be the more happier people.

The first duty to children is to make them happy. If you have not made them so, you have wronged them. No other good they may get can make up for that.

I have known lots of adults who enjoyed similar enthusiasms as a kid and weren't encouraged and then didn't go anywhere with it and so they're unhappy in their jobs as adults.

There's so much that can influence kids and young adults now, you just have to raise them the best you can and hope they make the right decisions.

If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others.