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People don't pay much attention to you when you are second best. I wanted to see what it felt like to be number one.

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That a good fit between parental handling and child temperament is vital to help children adapt to the imperatives of their society is a crucial concept that can be applied to other cultures.

Children, Concept, Crucial, Handling, Helping, Other Cultures
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Remember. . . that each child is a separate person, yours forever, but never fully yours. She can never be all you wished or wanted,or all you know she could be. But she will be a better human being if you can let her be herself.

Children, Forever, Individuality, Person, Remember, Wished

Many children grow through adolescence with no ripples whatever and land smoothly and predictably in the adult world with both feet on the ground. Some who have stumbled and bumbled through childhood suddenly burst into bloom. Most shake, steady themselves, zigzag, fight, retreat, pick up, take new bearings, and finally find their own true balance.

Adult, Children, Feet, Fighting, Predictably, Ripples

Today's fathers and mothers--with only the American dream for guidance--extend and overextend themselves, physically, emotionally,and financially, during the best years of their lives to ensure that their children will grow up prepared to do better and go further than they did.

Children, Dream, Fathers, Financially, Mother, Prepared

Parents' ability to survive a child's unabating needs, wants, and demands. . . varies enormously. Some people can give and give. . . . Whether children are good or bad, brilliant or just about normal, enormously popular or born loners, they keep their cool and say just the right thing at all times. . . even when they are miserable themselves, inexhaustible springs of emotional energy, reserved just for children, keep flowing unabated.

Children, Emotional, Loners, Spring, Springs, Survive

An actress reading a part for the first time tries many ways to say the same line before she settles into the one she believes suits the character and situation best. There's an aspect of the rehearsing actress about the girl on the verge of her teens. Playfully, she is starting to try out ways to be a grown-up person.

Believe, Girl, Line, Reading, Rehearsing
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