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Raising Children

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Little Polly Flinders
Sat among the cinders,
Warming her pretty little toes.
Her mother came and caught her,
And whipped her little daughter
For spoiling her nice new clothes.

Anonymous: Nursery Rhymes

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The childhood shows the man, As morning shows the day.

John Milton

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If you don’t have children the longing for them will kill you, and if you do, the worrying over them will kill you.

Buchi Emecheta

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Greatness of name in the father… oft-times overwhelms the son; they stand too near one another. The shadow kills the growth: so much, that we see the grandchild come more and oftener to be heir of the first.

Ben Jonson

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If you strike a child, take care that you strike it in anger, even at the risk of maiming it for life. A blow in cold blood neither can nor should be forgiven.

George Bernard Shaw

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