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This room is their mother and father, far more important in their lives than their real parents. And
“Whenever I try something new, my body will feel uncomfortable; this discomfort is a sign that I’m wiring a new circuit, one that wasn’t practiced in my earliest years. My discomfort is evidence of change . . . not evidence that I’m doing something wrong.”
― Good Inside: A Guide to Becoming the Parent You Want to Be
― Good Inside: A Guide to Becoming the Parent You Want to Be
“arise in the morning torn between a desire to save the world and a desire to savor the world. That makes it hard to plan the day.”
― The Measure
― The Measure
“The Handbook of Resilience in Children,”
― Good Inside: A Guide to Becoming the Parent You Want to Be
― Good Inside: A Guide to Becoming the Parent You Want to Be
“You’re animals, and animals don’t have a purpose. Animals just are. And there are a lot of intelligent – sentient, maybe – animals out there who don’t have a problem with that. They just go on breathing and mating and eating each other without a second thought. But the animals like you – the ones who make tools and build cities and itch to explore, you all share a need for purpose. For reason. That”
― A Closed and Common Orbit
― A Closed and Common Orbit
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