You don't raise kids. You raise carrots. You sponsor kids.
Life is like walking through snow: every step shows.
Children are not things to be molded, but people to be unfolded.
Praise is like sunlight to the human spirit, we cannot flower and grow without it.
We inevitably doom our children to failure and frustration when we try to set their goals for them.
It's like the little rat in the Skinner box who says, "I've got this psychologist under my control. Every time I press the bar, he gives me a food pellet."