“Are you the adult that you want your child to grow up to be?”
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Source: Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead
“Oh Christ, he groaned to himself, if this is the stuff adults have to think about I never want to grow up”
— Stephen King, book It
Source: It
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