“Do not learn how to react. Learn how to respond.” – The Buddha
From “The Human Condition: A User’s Manual,” by Arnold Kunst
9 October
Be careful that you, as a parent, don’t find emotional blackmail too seductive to pass up. In a moment of passion it’s very easy, fairly early on in your career as a parent, to say to your child, ‘If you ever __________, you’re out of my life forever!’ It doesn’t make any difference what you put in that blank space; that choice yields a yawning disaster stretching out beyond the furthest horizon that is as inevitable as it is profound.
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