Boundaries with Kids: How Healthy Choices Grow Healthy Children
Henry Cloud
Top 10 Best Quotes
“1. Whose problem is this? 2. What can I do to help him experience the problem? 3. What am I doing to keep him from experiencing the problem?”
“Remember that parenting is a temporary job, not an identity. Kids with parents who have a life learn both hat they aren't the center of the universe and that they can be free to pursue their own dreams.”
“Mature, healthy people need other people; they don't isolate themselves...Needing love isn't being immature. Rather, it gives us the energy we need to go out and slay our dragons.”
“A boundary is a "property line" that defines a person; it defines where one person ends and someone else begins.”
“When you are a parent, you help create a child's future.”
“The statement "I'll always be your parent" is true in one sense, but not in another. You will always have that heritage, but you won't always have that responsibility. Your goal is a mutual affection between two adults, not a permanent one-up position.”
“Responsibility is actually broader than this. We think of responsibility in terms of ownership. To take ownership of your life is ultimately to take control. Ownership is to truly possess your life and to know that you are accountable or your life-to you and others. When you take ownership, your realize that all aspects of your life are truly yours and only yours, and that no one is going to live your life for you.”
“It's hard to give up playing God when you've been doing it a long time.”
“In fact, to the extent that you can be separate from someone is the extent to which you can truly love him or her.”
“Children hide from relational consequences more than the known logical consequences of their behavior.”
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control, separateness, children, true-love, influence, consequences, line-of-control, future, boundaries, boundaries-with-kids, relationships, parenting, personhood
