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"I listened to this audiobook read by the author and felt grossed out. Not because I’m squeamish about blood or bodily functions but because the author was so crass about it." — Feb 24, 2026 11:19AM
"I listened to this audiobook read by the author and felt grossed out. Not because I’m squeamish about blood or bodily functions but because the author was so crass about it." — Feb 24, 2026 11:19AM
It also occurred to me that wishing away half your life in anticipation of retirement (albeit an awesome one) was verging on the medieval. I wasn’t a serf, tilling the land until I dropped from exhaustion. I was working in 21st century
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“But what we called love down there was mostly the craving to be loved. In the main I loved you for my own sake: because I needed you.”
― The Great Divorce
― The Great Divorce
“Suddenly evil isn’t punching people or even hating them. Suddenly it’s all that stuff you’ve left undone. All the kindness you could have given. All the excuses you gave instead.”
― Everything Sad Is Untrue
― Everything Sad Is Untrue
“Labels and comparisons really are no-win. If it is a positive label, kids will always fear losing it. If it is a negative label, someone gets stuck with it.”
― Permission to Parent: How to Raise Your Child with Love and Limits
― Permission to Parent: How to Raise Your Child with Love and Limits
“We do not write the story of childhood with a dry-erase board, we write with a permanent Sharpie.”
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“The best way to stop a little debater in his tracks is a tool I call reverse negotiation. It works like a charm. Here is how it is done: you tell your child that negotiating will no longer be tolerated. If you are thinking that it's not that simple, you would be right. But wait, there is more--you add that when your child negotiates, not only does he not get what he was asking for, but he gets less than what he started with. Let's give it a whirl:
PARENT: Bedtime is at eight.
CHILD: I want to stay up until eight thirty.
PARENT: No, it's eight.
CHILD: I want to stay up later.
PARENT: Now bedtime is seven forty-five.
CHILD: Fine, I'll take eight.
PARENT: Now bedtime is at seven thirty.”
― Permission to Parent: How to Raise Your Child with Love and Limits
PARENT: Bedtime is at eight.
CHILD: I want to stay up until eight thirty.
PARENT: No, it's eight.
CHILD: I want to stay up later.
PARENT: Now bedtime is seven forty-five.
CHILD: Fine, I'll take eight.
PARENT: Now bedtime is at seven thirty.”
― Permission to Parent: How to Raise Your Child with Love and Limits
Squeaky Clean Reads Bookclub
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A bookclub group for readers who are looking for good, clean book club selections! We will have monthly bookclub choices, discussion questions, giveaw ...more
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