Amy Senger

“Kids actually love to talk about money and share what they’ve learned. This budding investor’s financial riddle demonstrates a key lesson for everyone, particularly young people: invest as much as you can as early as you can, and you will reap the benefits in the future. If you don’t think about the power of compound interest, you wouldn’t assume a penny would grow to $5 million in one month. Of course, that doubling every day for thirty days represents an impossible interest rate in the real world, but that’s not the point. The”
― Chad Willardson, Smart, Not Spoiled: The 7 Money Skills Kids Must Master Before Leaving the Nest

“Instead of complaining about challenges or setbacks, they developed solutions and solved problems. They leveraged assets, relationships, and resources to get the job done.”
― Jocko Willink, Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win

“So the conservative who resists change is as valuable as the radical who proposes it -- perhaps as much more as the roots are more vital than grafts. It is good that new ideas should be heard, for the sake of the few that can be used; but it is also good that new ideas should be compelled to go through the mill of objection, opposition, and contumely; this is the trial heat which innovations must survive before being allowed to enter the human race. It is good that the old should resist the young, and that the young should prod the old; out of this tension, as out of the strife of the sexes and the classes, comes a creative tensile strength, a stimulated development, a secret and basic unity and movement of the whole.”
― Will Durant

“It’s important to take ownership over your role (“Mommy was having big feelings that came out in a yelling voice. Those were my feelings and it’s my job to work on managing them better. It’s never your fault when I yell and it’s not your job to figure out how I can stay calmer. I love you”) instead of insinuating that your child “made you” react in a certain way. And remember: as a parent, you are”
― Becky Kennedy, Good Inside