Parental Authority Quotes

• Parents can learn that parental authority doesn't depend on knowing everything. The more you pretend, the more risk that it'll be traumatic and damaging to the kids and their relationship with you when they find out the truth.

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  Seymour Papert

  Kids   Knowing Everything   Parent  

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• The only parental authority I had was the studio. When I was a star, there was always somebody with me, to guard me. I was not allowed to be photographed with a cigarette, a drink, a cup of coffee or even a glass of water because someone might think it was liquor. When I left the studio I was already married and had two children, but I felt as sad as a child leaving home for the first time.

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  June Allyson

  Stars   Children   Coffee  

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I would have rebelled against parental authority, no matter what. When I was 15, I started painting my face and making my own clothes.

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  Grace Jones

  Clothes   Matter   Faces  

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• [Parental] authority must be tempered...with loving kindness and patient encouragement. To temper authority with kindness is to triumph in the struggle which belongs to your duty as parents...All those who would advantageously rule over others, must as an essential element, first dominate themselves, their passions, their impressions.

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  Pope Pius XII

  Encouragement   Kindness   Struggle  

  1768

• Beware of the manipulativeness of rich students who were neglected by their parents. They love to turn the campus into hysterical psychodramas of sexual transgression, followed by assertions of parental authority and concern. And don't look for sexual enlightenment from academe, which spews out mountains of books but never looks at life directly.

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  Camille Paglia

  Book   Parent   Enlightenment  

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays”, p.50, Vintage

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