Give Yourself What You Needed Then and Give Your Kids What They Need Now
This is why Jung suggested: There is no greater burden on a child than the unlived life of a parent.
Glennon Doyle • Untamed: Stop Pleasing, Start Living: THE NO.1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
The Gift of Failure: How the Best Parents Learn to Let Go So Their Children Can Succeed
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We can’t really give to our children what we don’t have ourselves. In that sense, my greatest gift to my daughter is that I continue to work on myself. Children learn more through imitation than through any other form of instruction. Our greatest opportunity to positively affect another person’s life is to accept God’s love into our own.
Marianne Williamson • A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of A Course in Miracles (The Marianne Williamson Series)
Children do not become what their parents want them to become.
Ichiro Kishimi, Fumitake Koga • The Courage to Be Disliked: The Japanese Phenomenon That Shows You How to Change Your Life and Achieve Real Happiness
If parents want to give their children a gift, the best thing they can do is to teach their children to love challenges, be intrigued by mistakes, enjoy effort, seek new strategies, and keep on learning.