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[Quote No.28593] Need Area: Friends > Children
"It is a youthful failing to be unable to control one's impulses." - Seneca
(c. 4 BC – AD 65), Lucius Annaeus Seneca (often known simply as Seneca, or Seneca the Younger) was a Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman and dramatist.
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[Quote No.28608] Need Area: Friends > Children
"The mind is slow to unlearn what it learnt early." - Seneca
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[Quote No.28618] Need Area: Friends > Children
"Where reason fails, time oft has worked a cure!" - Seneca
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[Quote No.28728] Need Area: Friends > Children
"Whoso neglects learning in his [or her] youth,
Loses the past and is [near] dead for the future." - Euripides
(484 BC - 406 BC), Greek tragic dramatist. Quoted from his play, 'Phrixus'.
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[Quote No.28743] Need Area: Friends > Children
"To tolerant everything is too teach nothing." - F. J. Kinsman
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[Quote No.28871] Need Area: Friends > Children
"We are given children to test us and make us more spiritual. [and make us better because of the example we must be]" - George F. Will
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[Quote No.29041] Need Area: Friends > Children
"A child's education should begin at least one hundred years before he [or she] is born. [with the education of his or her grandparents and parents, as a parent's education effects the environment, attitudes, opportunities and guidance they are able to give their child.]" - Oliver Wendell Holmes
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[Quote No.29063] Need Area: Friends > Children
"If a son [daughter/child] is uneducated, his father [mother/parent] is to blame. [as the primary responsibility of parents is to prepare their children for a moral, independent, constructive, fulfilling life.]" - Chinese Proverb
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[Quote No.29135] Need Area: Friends > Children
"When you educate a man you educate an individual; when you educate a woman you educate a whole family." - Robert M. Maciver
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[Quote No.29365] Need Area: Friends > Children
"I believe that even if a child doesn't grow up to become a full-fledged 'entrepreneur,' the skills they develop by practicing entrepreneurship at an early age are invaluable in life. Running a business teaches self-sufficiency, creativity, persistence, and collaboration. It builds confidence and teaches you how to work through failures until you reach success...
I've learned a few things over the years about the benefits of fostering an entrepreneurial 'can-do' spirit in children.
1. Share Your Enthusiasm to Make a Business Out of Things Your Children Already Love: It's easier to go with the flow than to push water uphill. I could have spent months trying to persuade my kids to start their own restaurant... but that just wasn't their passion. They were interested in skateboarding. So a business based on that was a great foundation upon which to grow a new business idea.
2. Plant Seeds and Let Them Grow: Kids are smart and can work a lot out for themselves. But they may need you to suggest a few 'What if?' questions that allow them to see wider possibilities than the one they saw initially.
3. Help Your Children Prepare for Potential Challenges: I asked my boys questions that would prepare them for dealing with order cancellations, import duties, and taxes.
4. Ask Questions - but Let Them Work Out the Answers: This is the kids' project. You want them to feel a sense of achievement as a result of their entrepreneurial venture - not that you did the whole thing for them. You can help out where necessary. But remember, children are incredibly resourceful. They can figure out things for themselves... with a little nudge here and there from you. Let them know that you are always available to help them, but stand back and give them a chance to do as much as possible themselves. Yes, they will make mistakes - but, though disappointing, mistakes are some of the best teachers.
5. Involve Both Parents: This is important whether you are together or separated. Your spouse (or ex) can offer ideas, insights, and experience that your children can benefit from.
6. Recognize the Difference Between Ideas and Actions: This is a big concept for anyone - adults and children alike. You can come up with 'great' ideas for projects or businesses. But until you put them into action, nothing happens. By getting a few projects going yourself, you can give your children the courage to try their own.
7. Persistence Pays: The twin of action is persistence - staying the course. And encouraging your children to dip their toes into entrepreneurship teaches them how to handle 'failure' and not give up. In any undertaking, there will be unexpected setbacks. And entrepreneurship is the perfect way for your kids to learn how to cope with those setbacks and think their way through creative solutions.
8. Clear the Path: Your kids are never too young to learn about the 'Ready, Fire, Aim' approach to achieve success in any endeavor. Too much planning and over-thinking is the enemy of action. Teach your children to get a project started - and then build upon what they discover.
9. Don't Make Money Goal #1: Not every project has to make a profit in order to have value. So don't discourage your kids if they aren't interested in making a buck. If, for example, your daughter wants to put on a free piano recital in your backyard and have attendees donate money to orphans in Africa, that is a wonderful goal. The point is to help your children become strong and happy, not to impose your own vision upon them. Because if your kids enjoy what they're doing, they'll be much more likely to achieve success.
The greatest gift my parents ever gave me was this single piece of career advice: 'We don't care what you do as long as you're happy.' This has inspired some interesting choices along the way. But I can honestly look back and say that although some of the choices I've made have been plain hard work, I've never had a dull, boring, or unhappy job in my life. And my sister and brother say the same thing.
For me, the main benefit in the time I've spent teaching my kids about entrepreneurship has been the fun we've had learning new things together. That, and discovering more about what my kids are passionate about. At the same time, I know I've been helping them learn some major life skills." - David Cross
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[Quote No.29388] Need Area: Friends > Children
"We are given children to test us and make us more spiritual." - George F. Will
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[Quote No.29483] Need Area: Friends > Children
"A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child." - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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[Quote No.29514] Need Area: Friends > Children
"One kisses the child for the mother's sake [also], and the mother for the child's sake [also]." - German Proverb
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[Quote No.29554] Need Area: Friends > Children
"In the education of children there is nothing like alluring the interest and affection, otherwise you only make so many asses laden with books." - Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
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[Quote No.29597] Need Area: Friends > Children
"Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its liberty [and do not develop their understanding of the world, talents, character, self-respect and love of virtue] you will have to dig dungeons for ages." - Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
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[Quote No.29613] Need Area: Friends > Children
"Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve. [which doesn't help them develop the imaginative problem solving skills that they will need most later in life. A better approach than simply providing the answers is to help them work out how to solve the problems themselves so that they develop problem solving skills and self-reliance as well as the answer.]" - Roger Lewin
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[Quote No.29689] Need Area: Friends > Children
"[Children like] People seldom improve when they have no other model, but themselves to copy after." - Oliver Goldsmith
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[Quote No.29695] Need Area: Friends > Children
"It was the policy of the good old gentleman to make his children feel that home was the happiest place in the world; and I value this delicious home-feeling as one of the choicest gifts a parent can bestow!" - Washington Irving
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[Quote No.29859] Need Area: Friends > Children
"We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do." - Brigham Young
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[Quote No.29948] Need Area: Friends > Children
"And he taught it in a very clever way--because instead of just pounding it in, he told it to me in a way that required a slight mental reach...That's a very clever teaching method." - Charlie Munger
Lawyer and business partner of Warren Buffett, with the position of Vice-Chairman of Berkshire Hathaway Inc. Highly successful value share investor in his own right.
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[Quote No.30116] Need Area: Friends > Children
"A child is fed with milk and praise." - Mary Lamb
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[Quote No.30135] Need Area: Friends > Children
"The accent [experiences and upbringing] of one's birthplace remains in the mind and in the heart as in one's speech." - Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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[Quote No.30340] Need Area: Friends > Children
"A mother's heart is always with her children." - Proverb
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[Quote No.30557] Need Area: Friends > Children
"How wonderful it would be if we could help our children and grandchildren to learn thanksgiving at an early age. Thanksgiving opens the doors. It changes a child's personality. A child is resentful, negative — or thankful. Thankful children want to give, they radiate happiness, they draw people." - Sir John Templeton
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[Quote No.30776] Need Area: Friends > Children
"God could not be everywhere, and therefore He made mothers. [and fathers]" - Jewish Saying
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[Quote No.30819] Need Area: Friends > Children
"The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards!" - Anatole France
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[Quote No.30911] Need Area: Friends > Children
"People should be free to find or make for themselves the kinds of educational experience they want their children to have [that they believe will best prepare their children for a successful, productive and happy life.]" - John Holt
(1923 - 1985), American educator, author and one of the best known proponents of homeschooling.
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[Quote No.31282] Need Area: Friends > Children
"The disgrace of others often keeps tender minds from vice." - Horace
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[Quote No.31436] Need Area: Friends > Children
"Childhood shows the man, as morning shows the day." - John Milton
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[Quote No.31464] Need Area: Friends > Children
"I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own." - Margaret Atwood
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[Quote No.31467] Need Area: Friends > Children
"[Here's an example of the best parental attitudes:] When the child is happy, the mother is happy. When the child is unhappy, the mother instinctively wants to find the cause of the unhappiness and end it, if she can.
When the mother discovers that the child is unhappy because of some physical discomfort, she tries to relieve it. When the cause is an emotional conflict, she does her best to teach the child how to handle it. The mother's goal is always to prepare the child to become independent. She works consistently to gradually free the child from his natural dependence on her so that he can go out into the world and live a happy and productive life.
When an 11-year-old tells his mother that he 'hates' her because she's imposed some restriction on him, the (mentally healthy) mother does not feel hurt, even though a hurtful thing has been said. She loves the child and doesn't take his statement to heart. She remains calm. She reminds him that she loves him. And she explains that the restriction will not be removed simply because he 'hates' it or her.
In other words, she is emotionally detached from the child's expressions of anger.
If you are a parent, you understand what I mean. Most parents, most of the time, practice this sort of emotional detachment with their children. But there are some who can't do it, because they are emotionally attached to their children's approval of them. These are the parents who want to be 'best friends' with their children. They break their own rules the moment their children object to them. Sometimes they go so far as to tolerate risky behavior. [By doing this, in the long run they teach their children not to respect them, other authority figures or the law in their future lives.]" - Michael Masterson
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[Quote No.31619] Need Area: Friends > Children
"When you want to encourage a greater sense of responsibility in others (and yourself), emphasize the anticipation of accomplishment, not the penalties for failure!" - Roger Crawford
American resiliency expert, speaker and author.
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[Quote No.31823] Need Area: Friends > Children
"A young person, to achieve, must first get out of his mind any notion either of the ease or rapidity of success. Nothing ever just happens in this world." - Edward William Bok
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[Quote No.31880] Need Area: Friends > Children
"A child, like your stomach, doesn't need all you can afford to give it. [In fact give either too much of the wrong things and you hurt rather than help.]" - Frank A. Clark
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[Quote No.31964] Need Area: Friends > Children
"Life is amazing: and the [parent and] teacher had better prepare himself [or herself] to be a medium for that amazement." - Edward Blishen
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[Quote No.31965] Need Area: Friends > Children
"Fathers, like mothers, are not born. Men grow into fathers and fathering is a very important stage in their development.
" - David Gottesman
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[Quote No.31966] Need Area: Friends > Children
"The father who does not teach his son his duties is equally guilty with the son who neglects them. [This is equally true of mothers and daughters as well as fathers and daughters and mothers and sons!]
" - Confucius
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[Quote No.31967] Need Area: Friends > Children
"Children have more need of models than critics.
" - Joseph Joubert
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[Quote No.31968] Need Area: Friends > Children
"Diogenes struck the father when the son swore.
" - Robert Burton
Anatomy of Melancholy
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[Quote No.31969] Need Area: Friends > Children
"There must [nearly] always be a struggle between a father and son, [or any parent and child] while one aims at [protective] power and the other at independence. [Wisely and lovingly negotiating these conflicting needs is part of the challenge of good parenting.]" - Samuel Johnson
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[Quote No.31970] Need Area: Friends > Children
"My son, a perfect little boy of five years and three months, had ended his earthly life. You can never sympathize with me; you can never know how much of me such a young child can take away. A few weeks ago I accounted myself a very rich man, and now the poorest of all." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
on the death of his son.
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[Quote No.31971] Need Area: Friends > Children
"A man never stands as tall as when he kneels to help a child.
" - Knights of Pythagoras
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[Quote No.32108] Need Area: Friends > Children
"I have a 10-year-old at home, and she is always saying, 'That's not fair.' When she says that, I say, 'Honey, you're cute; that's not fair. Your family is pretty well off; that's not fair. You were born in America; that's not fair. Honey, you had better pray to God that things don't start getting fair for you." - P.J. O'Rourke
political satirist
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[Quote No.32110] Need Area: Friends > Children
"We should not teach children the sciences; but give them a taste for them." - Jean Jacques Rousseau
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[Quote No.32172] Need Area: Friends > Children
"Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there's always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires." - Marcelene Cox
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[Quote No.32222] Need Area: Friends > Children
"A young man is a theory, an old man is a fact." - Edgar Watson Howe
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[Quote No.32232] Need Area: Friends > Children
"[As a parent or teacher trying to help a child] There is so much information in the world it is easy for you and the child to get overwhelmed. There is not enough time for it all. So what should a person focus on? The answer of course is on what will give the child the greatest rewards for the least time and effort... namely the few critical lifeskill fundamentals. And they should be focused on so much that they become a part of their habits and character, if you want them to gain their greatest benefits. There is no greater gift you can give a child." - Seymour@imagi-natives.com
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[Quote No.32266] Need Area: Friends > Children
"Luxury! more perilous to youth than storms or quicksand, poverty or chains." - Hannah More
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[Quote No.32292] Need Area: Friends > Children
"One of the most obvious facts about grownups to a child is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child." - Randall Jarrell
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[Quote No.32344] Need Area: Friends > Children
"As our family grew, we limited the choices our seven kids could make; but as they grew into teenagers, they were given more leeway. [After all parenting is only about raising humans who can be intelligently and responsibly independent rather than dependent on their parents, others or the state.] Not all of their choices were good. How many times did Dad say, 'What were you thinking?' and get a mute reply or a mumbled 'I don't know.'
Yet how else do you teach them that bad choices have bad consequences? You can lecture, you can be a role model; but in the end you have to let them make their own choices. And a lot of them make a lot of bad choices. After having raised six, with one more teenage son at home, I have come to the conclusion that you just breathe a sigh of relief if they grow up and have avoided fatal, life-altering choices. I am lucky. So far. Knock on a lot of wood.
I have watched good kids from good families make bad choices, and kids with no seeming chance make good choices. But one thing I have observed. Very few teenagers make the hard choice without some outside encouragement or help in understanding [all the options possible and] the known consequences, from some source. They nearly always opt for the choice that involves the most fun and/or the least immediate pain, and then learn later that they now have to make yet another choice as a consequence of the original one. And thus they grow up. So quickly." - John Mauldin
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