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Rinku Shah
Parenting is an art,
Use your heart.
Don’t pull reins…
It will leave on the relationship
deep strains!
Pauline Ebijimi
you can control the life of a child
but don’t turn the child
into your own puppet.
Sherry Greene
You can lead a child toward education,
But you can’t make the child learn
The same things you did.
Respect individuality.
Anubha Sharma
Their reins may control his direction
but will blind his own vision forever.
Ilda Coelho
You child is not an animal to be tamed,
your child is a spirit
to be set free in guidance
Praveen Kulkarni
Don’t ride piggyback on your kids
with your own expectations
Sonya Hornbuckle
You can do this!
We’ve got your back!
David Chapman
A child who is bridled by their parents
will have a difficult time
navigating in the world
independently as an Adult.
Sheena Gupta
I could handle the weight of the bag
but their expectations weighed the most.
Sonali Ray
The shoulders of a child are far stronger
than the adults can imagine;
his mind much innovative
than the adults can comprehend.
Carmen Flick
The total conformity of a child
may inhibit the growth
of adulthood and freedom!
Sarrveshwaran
You can help your child to see the world,
but at the end of the day,
let the vision be theirs.
Wayne Kelley
Your parents are there to guide you
along the right path.
Beena Baburajan
Rein in your egos and agendas,
As parents,
be conscious of your own baggage…
Do not overburden your child with control
Shubha Bhandarkar
Parents,
stop controlling your child’s mind.
Believe in them! Let them feel the world,
experience it,
create a better one and own it!!
Carolyn Williams
A parent’s guidance…not control….
is critical to the success
of the next generation.
Shilpika Bagh
“Harness” of your expectations;
fogs their “life’s vision”.
Anjana Surendran
To guide is their duty
and to master is his.
Phyllis Snider Boyer
Don’t mistake ‘Control’ for ‘Guidance’.
Guidance shows love.
Control merely shows dominance.
Tanu Malhotra
Does “the best well-wisher”
tag entitle a parent to navigate
and toy-with a child’s life?
Guide, not direct.
Richa Tripathi
Don’t be a charioteer,
your kids are not horses.
Ayona Chowdhury
Put your reins on them
and shackle them with your ties.
But remember,
Wild horses run unbridled,
Or the spirit dies.
Sulekha Pande
Don’t ride piggyback
On the shoulders of your kid,
With your own unfulfilled
Dreams and aspirations.
Shruti Sharma
We always bear the weight
of other people’s expectations,
follow the path they want us to lead
not knowing what we want
or capable of doing in our life.
Mettle & Makeover
Stop holding the reins
to your child’s education
Sanjolie
Sometimes parents will do
everything for their child,
except let them be themselves!
Kufre Stephens
Teach the child how to think
and not what to think