“To implant fear in the minds of children is a crime. If parents try to rule the child by fear, then fear rules the child.”
“Training moments occur when both parents and children do their jobs. The parent's job is to make the rule. The child's job is to break the rule. The parent then corrects and disciplines. The child breaks the rule again, and the parent manages the consequences and empathy that then turn the rule into reality and internal structure for the child.”
“He who lets fear rule him, has fear for a master [Acheron]”
“Fear seems to be the ruling judge.”
“Courage, my child, is not the absence of fear. It's the triumph over fear.”
“The guys who fear becoming fathers don't understand that fathering is not something perfect men do, but something that perfects the man. The end product of child raising is not the child, but the parent.”