All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped. Youth, like pristine glass, absorbs the prints of its handlers. Some parents smudge, others crack, a few shatter childhoods completely into jagged little pieces, beyond repair.
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Mitch Albom
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Mitch Albom quotes
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Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy.
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Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.
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I have a dream that one day little black boys and girls will be holding hands with little white boys and girls.
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The soul is healed by being with children.
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Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
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Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.
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When kids hit 1 year old, it's like hanging out with a miniature drunk. You have to hold onto them. They bump into things. They laugh and cry. They urinate. They vomit.
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The only creatures that are evolved enough to convey pure love are dogs and infants.
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My best advice to anyone who wants to raise a happy, mentally healthy child is: Keep him or her as far away from a church as you can.
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The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without a teacher.