“Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them.”
“By trying to make things easier for their children, parents can make things much harder for them.”
“Many parents make mistakes with their children, thinking they know what's best for them.”
“Don’t work too hard. Try to maintain balance. Don’t make work your whole life.”
“We all know that parents do not make children but that children make parents…Authentic parenting is one long sacrificial act…parenting reveals the way that sacrifice at once diminishes our life as we knew it…while at the same time revealing to us larger and infinitely more fascinating forms of life…Parents know experientially that the very process which makes them suffer also makes them grow.”
“Life is easy. We make it hard.”