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“Whatever emotional state you’re in while you’re parenting conveys more to your child than the content of what you're doing with them, no matter how perfect your intervention looks "on paper." In other words, to paraphrase Marshall McLuhan, "your emotional state is the message.”
― Michael Y. Simon, The Approximate Parent: Discovering the Strategies that Work for Your Teenager

tags: books-on-parenting, parenting-quotes, parenting-teens, parenting-tips, teenagers-and-parents

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“Let me give you some advice here: People who want to have the sex talk with you will act the same way as people who want to murder you. First they get you in their car, so they're in control and you can't escape. Then they drive you someplace in the middle of nowhere.”
― Flynn Meaney, The Boy Recession

tags: high-school, love, sex, sex-education, sex-talk, teenagers, teenagers-and-parents

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“From the time he was young, he dressed the way you told him to dress; he acted the way you told him to act; he said the things you told him to say. He's been listening to somebody else tell him what to do... He hasn't changed. He is still listening to somebody else tell him what to do. The problem is, it isn't you any,ore; it's his peers.”
― Barbara Coloroso, Kids Are Worth It!: Giving Your Child the Gift of Inner Discipline

tags: child-rearing, children, parenting, peer-pressure, teenagers-and-parents, youth

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