“When women are encouraged to be competitive, too many of them become disagreeable.”
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Every child senses, with all the horse sense that's in him, that any parent is angry inside when children misbehave and they dread more the anger that is rarely or never expressed openly, wondering how awful it might be.
There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and its mother's age.
The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.
I would say that the surest measure of a man's or a woman's maturity is the harmony, style, joy, and dignity he creates in his marriage, and the pleasure and inspiration he provides for his spouse.