“Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.”
Robert A. Heinlein Time Enough for Love
Time Enough for Love (1973)
After his arrest, and getting dragged into court, quoted on The guardian, "Former Maldives president Mohamed Nasheed jailed for 13 years" http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/14/former-maldives-president-mohamed-nasheed-jailed-for-13-years, March 14, 2015.
“Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.”
Robert A. Heinlein Time Enough for Love
Time Enough for Love (1973)
Roger Ebert (1942–2013) American film critic, author, journalist, and TV presenter
Review http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/resident-evil-apocalypse-2004 of Resident Evil: Apocalypse (10 September 2004) <br class="br">Reviews, Half-star reviews
Yehuda Bauer (1926) Israeli historian of the Holocaust
Address to the Bundestag (27 January 1998) https://web.archive.org/web/20050307015224/http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/MFAArchive/1990_1999/1998/1/Address%20to%20the%20Bundestag-%20by%20Professor%20Yehuda%20Baue
“Maybe it’s like being a parent, you never really see your children as adults.”
Genevieve Cogman (1972) novelist and game designer
Source: The Burning Page (2016), Chapter 12 (p. 145)
Context: Maybe it’s like being a parent,” she said, bringing up a Library map. “You never really see your children as adults. “You’re exaggerating,” Kai said, with the easy confidence of someone who hadn’t tested the issue yet.
Jefferson Davis (1808–1889) President of the Confederate States of America
David Hunter, letter to Jefferson Davis https://books.google.com/books?id=Jc8VCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA59 (1863)
David Hunter (1802–1886) Union Army general
As quoted in The Smart Culture: Society, Intelligence, and Law https://books.google.com/books?id=Jc8VCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA59, by Robert L. Hayman, pp. 59&ndash;61 <br class="br">1860s, Letter to Jefferson Davis (1863)
“Recommend to your children virtues, that alone can make them happy, not gold.”
Ludwig Van Beethoven (1770–1827) German Romantic composer
Roald Dahl book Danny, the Champion of the World
Danny, the Champion of the World (1975)
Context: A Message to Children Who Have Read This Book - When you grow up and have children of your own, do please remember something important: a stodgy parent is no fun at all. What a child wants and deserves is a parent who is SPARKY.