A quote I came across....
Submitted by Forgiven on October 11 2001 17:33:09
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'The secret of dealing successfully with a child is not to be its parent' whilst no doubt teachers and probation officers might not entirely agree, I suspect it has more than an element of truth; indeed I sometimes think that I get on better with my teenage YFs than their parents do is because I am not a parent, and hardly see them as children at all. However their parents always remember as the vulnerable kid they've bought up from being a totally defenceless baby.... |
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