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Old Apr 28, 2017, 06:43 PM
leejosepho leejosepho is offline
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Originally Posted by sophiesmom View Post
...it is my responsibility to see my children turn into happy and healthy adults.
That is certainly our desire and something we hope will happen, but no, it is *not* our responsibility to make it so. Our job is to train, teach, provide and nurture without doing things that can make them unhappy and ill, but the ultimate outcome can only be discovered, not orchestrated.
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