Children need love, true enough, but they also need…
Page 19. Children need love, true enough, but they also need the experience of living in a rational universe.
— from Family & Parenting (Family/Parenting) · 21 letters on life and its challenges by Charles handy
In the book
Two quieter truths sit underneath all of it. The first: children need love, but they also need to live in a rational universe, one where actions carry consistent, understandable consequences. The second: a family's culture starts upstream of the children, in the marriage itself, so the deepest question a couple can ask is what kind of partners they want to be — how they will treat each other, settle their differences, and handle the hard things. — Family & Parenting (Family/Parenting)
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- The Instruments (Awareness/Perception/Expectations)
- Enjoy the Flight (Living/Balance/Happiness/Passion)