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America's detour during the 1970s and 1980s into ethical relativism
and marketplace amorality taught us the folly of telling children that anything goes.
- Keith Geiger, President, National Education Association (NEA), Education Week, Jan. 11, 1995, p. 26
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| Dr. Keith Hooker, MD, Director of Aspen Achievement Academy's
medical and safety program. I can guarantee parents that what the kids do with their friends is far more dangerous than what they're
doing out in the field with the supervision they have. |
| From Orme School HEADLINES, March/April 1995 Forty percent of all
parents experience a decline in their psychological well-being during their children's adolescence. In fact, many mid-life crises
are triggered by adolescent de-idealization of parents, reports Benjamin Steinberg, a well-known child psychologist. |
Today, about half the families no longer see it as their duty to
pass along values from generation to generation.
- Amitai Etzioni, George Washington sociologist. |
Children suck the mother when they are young and the father when they are old.
- English Proverb |
The easiest way to convince my kids that they don't really need something
is to get it for them.
- Joan Collins |
Youth is such a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
- George Bernard Shaw |
Never have children, only grandchildren.
- Gore Vidal |
The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest
willing to let them.
- Robert Frost |
When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did
were failures. I didn't want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work.
- George Bernard Shaw |
Copyright © 1995, Woodbury Reports, Inc. (This article may be reproduced
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