“I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.”
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In the family sandwich, the older people and the younger ones can recognize one another as the bread. Those in the middle are, for a time, the meat.
But it's important, while we are supporting lessons in respecting others, to remember that many of our youngest kids need to learn to respect themselves. You learn your worth from the way you are treated.
After all those years as a woman hearing 'not thin enough, not pretty enough, not smart enough, not this enough, not that enough, ' almost overnight I woke up one morning and thought, 'I'm enough.'
I will never understand people who think that the way to show their righteous opposition to sexual freedom is to write letters full of filthy words.