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A child's job is to test her boundaries, a parent's is to see that she survives the test.                                                     --Roger MacDonald

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A child’s job is to test her boundaries, a parent’s is to see that she survives the test.                                                     ––Roger MacDonald

Cultivate your own capabilities, your own style. Appreciate the members of your family for who they are, even though their outlook or style may be miles different from yours. Rabbits don’t fly. Eagles don’t swim. Ducks look funny trying to climb. Squirrels don’t have feathers. Stop comparing. There’s plenty of room in the forest.             

                                                                    ––Chuck Swindoll

If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.                                                               ––George Bernard Shaw

Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.                                                            ––George Burns

The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children.

                                                                                    ––G.K. Chesterton

I grew up with six brothers. That’s how I learned to dance –– waiting for the bathroom.                                                               ––Bob Hope

I have always looked at life as a voyage, mostly wonderful, sometimes frightening. In my family and friends I have discovered treasure more valuable than gold.                            ––Jimmy Buffet

What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family.                                                                                ––Mother Theresa

What families have in common the world around is that they are the place where people learn who they are and how to be that way.                                                                                                  ––Jean Illsley Clarke

Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.                                                                             ––Leo Tolstoy

If you don’t know [your family’s] history, then you don’t know anything. You are a leaf that doesn’t know it is part of a tree.

––Michael Crichton

To put the world right in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must first put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must first cultivate our personal life; we must first set our hearts right.                       ––Confucius

I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.

             ––Harry S. Truman

(Each week this column features quotations gleaned from the readings and experiences of our editors, reporters, readers, and friends. All are invited to submit quotations for inclusion here. They may be sent to Gleanings, c/o The Newtown Bee, 5 Church Hill Road, Newtown, CT 06470 or emailed to editor@thebee.com.)

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