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“Building resilience is about developing the capacity to tolerate distress, to stay in and with a tough, challenging moment, to find our footing and our goodness even when we don’t have confirmation of achievement or pending success.”
― Becky Kennedy, Good Inside: A Guide to Becoming the Parent You Want to Be

“it’s only after we accept reality that we can attempt to change it.”
― Shane Parrish, Clear Thinking: Turning Ordinary Moments into Extraordinary Results

“Now you have your job description: keep your child safe, emotionally and physically, using boundaries, validation, and empathy.”
― Becky Kennedy, Good Inside: A Guide to Becoming the Parent You Want to Be

“We cannot tell a child who is hitting someone to stop hitting, or a child who is running to stop running, or a child who is complaining about wanting more TV to stop complaining. Well, we can (I am someone who says all these things too!), but these pleas won’t be successful. Why? Because we cannot control someone else—we can only control ourselves.”
― Becky Kennedy, Good Inside: A Guide to Becoming the Parent You Want to Be