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Finish every day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense. This day is all that is good and fair. It is too dear, with its hopes and invitations, to waste a moment on yesterdays.  - Ralph Waldo Emerson Affirmation:  I see the sunny side of everything
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A child wants nothing but complete acdeptance form his parents. When he has had his fill of that, he will move onto other things. - Deborah Jackson. Affirmation: I accept my child exactly as s/he is
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"...care for your child rather than for your image or for your parents."  - Naomi Aldort Daily Affirmation: I stand up for what is important to me
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"Find out which of your thoughts causes you pain and which ones enhance your ability to love and to live with your child."  - Naomi Aldort Daily Affirmation: I am a confident mother
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" Will he really never learn to help? Do you really believe that he will stay in diapers? Never learn manners? Won't learn to read...unless you coerce him to do it now?"  - Naomi Aldort Daily Affirmation: I love and accept myself exactly as I am I love and accept my child exactly as she is
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" A child cannot perceive being loved when he is not feeling safe to express himself fully and authentically."  - Naomi Aldort Daily Affirmation: I let my child feel all of her feelings
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"Love never gives direction, for it knows that to lead a man off his path is to give him our path which will never be truly right for him. He must be free to go his own way."  - Leo Buscaglia Daily Affirmation: The universe is bringing me what I need for my higher good
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"...loving your child is being ecstatic about who she is, celebrating her ways of being and her choices."  - Naomi Aldort Daily Affirmation: I really am doing OK as a mother and I'm getting better every day.
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" You know you love your child; therefore, if your words or actions aren't kind and loving, you are not being true to yourself."  - Naomi Aldort Daily Affirmation: My words speak only of health, happiness & prosperity
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" We love the child, not her achievements or behavior."  - Naomi Aldort Daily Affirmation: I enjoy the time I spend with my child
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" You love his choices and direction simply because of loving him.."  - Naomi Aldort Daily Affirmation: I make today great!
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" Responding with wisdom and love occurs when we are completely present and free of old mind chatter. Love can only be experienced in the present."  - Naomi Aldort Daily Affirmation: I accept my child for who he is
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Let your child be "who she is without being held back by your past, by your anxiety about the future, or by your concern about what others may say about you as a parent."   - Naomi Aldort Daily Affirmation I make a difference in the world...one child at a time
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" Nothing you become will disappoint me; I have no preconception that I'd like to you to be or do. I have no desire to foresee you, only to discover you. You cannot disappoint me."  - Mary Haskell Daily Affirmation: I listen to the heart of my child
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  "This very moment is the perfect teacher, and, lucky for us, it's with us wherever we are." —Pema Chodron     Daily Affirmation:   I love my child even when we differ
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" We grow because the clamorous, permanent presence o f our children forces us to put their needs before ours. We grow because our love for our children urges us to change as nothing else in our lives has the power to do. We grow (if we're willing to grow, that is: not every parent is willing) becuase being a parent helps us stop being a child."  - Judith Viorst Daily Affirmation: I am the best mother I can be and I get better every day.
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"In old days there were angels who came and took men by the hand and led them away from the city of destruction. We see no white-winged angels now. But yet men are led away from threatening destruction: a hand is put into theirs, which leads them forth gently towards a calm and bright land, so that they look no more backward; and the hand may be a little child's." - GEORGE ELIOT, Silas Marner     Daily Affirmation:   I am open to learning all that my child has been sent to teach me.