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We must not look to the past for nostalgia and forget about living in the present. When we look too much in the past and idealize it we kind of put a gloom on the future.

Parents must not push their own anxieties or worries about life onto their kids and not controlled every waking action or behavior where it's a current power struggle that doesn't allow kids to gauge limits for themselves.

Ch 22: love is never, even in death
Ch 23: nobody likes to be told what to do
Ch 24: the major advantage of illness that it provides relief from responsibility
Ch 25: we are afraid of the wrong things