Lenore Skenazy Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“You don't remember the times your dad held your handle bars. You remember the day he let go.”
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“Who's crazy: people who trust other people, or people who don't?”
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“We have to learn to remind the other parents who think we're being careless when we loosen our grip that we are actually trying to teach our children how to get along in the world, and that we believe this is our job. A child who can fend for himself is a lot safer than one forever coddled, because the coddled child will not have Mom or Dad around all the time, even though they act as if he will.”
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“The Consumer Product Safety Commission has issued reams of playground regulations and actually gone so far as to recommend against "tripping hazards, like tree stumps and rocks." Maybe we should just bulldoze the local parks and put in a couple of blobs... made of plastic.”
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“A child who thinks he can't do anything on his own eventually can't.”
-- Lenore Skenazy
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