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To spank or not to spank isn’t the question the question is whether whether we are teaching a quality we want our kids to have as adults?

Bill Crawford

Never define people or situations in terms of their effect on you, unless you want to give them the power to make you feel that way.
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Giving People Want
Serenity is not just an escape, but a precursor to acceptance, courage, wisdom, and change.
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Acceptance Precursor Serenity
The difference between self-confidence and conceit is as simple as love and fear. Jesus was self-confident … Hitler was afraid.
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Confidence Jesus Self Simple
We can’t always choose how we feel. We can, however, choose what we do about it, which ironically can change how we feel!
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Choose Feels Ironically
You can’t fight fire with fire, or fear with fear.
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Create Fighting Fire Happen
Problems occur when we tie our peace of mind to another’s state of mind.
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Mind Problem Ties
The cooperative, creative, and flexible parts of your children reside in the joyful part of their brain.
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Brain Children Creative
Sometimes our ability to accept what we can’t change is tied to our willingness to change what we can.
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Accepting Change Sometimes Willingness
We limit our success when we mistake the limits of our perception for reality.
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Mistake Perception Reality
Realistic optimism allows us to experience the best until we have to deal with the worst … which often, never comes.
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Optimism Realistic Worst
There are two ways to make someone important in our lives … we can either love them or hate them.
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Hate Important Two
When our purpose becomes avoidance, our life becomes a void.
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Lives Our Purpose Void
To change any aspect of our life we must be willing to change our mind… Unfortunately, that is the one thing most people are the least willing to do.
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Aspect Mind People
You can’t ‘cope with’ change anymore than you can ‘manage’ stress.
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Change Manage Stress
Holding on to painful images of the past in order to avoid painful experiences in the future serves only to color the present with pain.
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Order Pain Painful Past Serve
Regardless of the problem, as long as our solution requires someone else to change, we will never know the power and promise of self-determination.
BILL CRAWFORD

Determination Long Self

To spank or not to spank isn’t the question the question is whether whether we are teaching a quality we want our kids to have as adults?

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