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Parenting is a topic that every philosophy and religious tradition has spoken about.

Teach by Example

First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do. - Epictetus

I think of myself as a philosopher only in the sense of being able to set an example - Friedrich Nietzsche

Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you - Robert fulghum

Without a ruler to do it against you won’t make crooked straight. - Seneca

Love unconditionally

Future love doesn't exist. Love is a present activity only - Leo tolstoy

Put your family first

Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory - Dr. Seuss

Master your emotions

Every event has two handles, one by which it can be carried, and one by which it can’t.
If your brother does you wrong, don’t grab it by his wronging, because this is the handle incapable of lifting it.
Instead, use the other—that he is your brother, that you were raised together,
and then you will have hold of the handle that carries. - Epictetus

Anger always outlasts hurt.
Best to take the opposite course.
Would anyone think it normal to return a kick to a mule or a bite to a dog? - Seneca

These things are not asking to be judged by you.
Leave them alone - Marcus Aurelius

Old people are always very impatient with young ones.
Fathers always expect their sons to have their virtues without their faults. — Winston Churchill

Character is fate

Character is fate - Heraclites

If, at some point in your life, you should come across anything better than justice, truth, self-control, courage — it must be an extraordinary thing indeed—and enjoy it to the full - Marcus Aurelius

Don't neglect yourself

The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood - Voltaire

Keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best - Epictetus

Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death;
and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid,
the further the date of redemption is postponed. - Arthur Schopenhauer

Raise a reader

A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies.
The man who never reads lives only one. - George R.R. Martin

I would rather have questions that can't be answered than answers that can't be questioned - Richard Feynman

Time flies

This is the real secret of life -- to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now.
And instead of calling it work, realize it is play. - Alan Watts