A baseball manager has learned a lot about his job from having played the game, but a parent has not learned a thing from having once been a child.
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My childhood should have taught me lessons for my own fatherhood, but it didn't because parenting can only be learned by people who have no children.Bill Cosby
Decide that you want it more than you are afraid of it.
Bill Cosby
Some authority on parenting once said, Hold them very close and then let them go. This is the hardest truth for a father to learn that his children are continuously growing up and moving away from him (until, of course, they move back in).
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And it's wonderful to follow Clair and Cliff and their lives being successful, doing what they always dreamt of doing and then to have these miracles which turn out to be so miraculous and then become grandparents. And to see one daughter become married to a fellow who's sort of a caretaker or a janitor, and watch another marry someone who already has a child it's wonderful to watch a family do that, and maintain.
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As I have discovered by examining my past, I started out as a child. Coincidentally, so did my brother. My mother did not put all her eggs in one basket, so to speak: she gave me a younger brother named Russell, who taught me what was meant by "survival of the fittest."
Bill Cosby
Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes.
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