the gospel according to Fred Rogers.
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more realavent now than ever.
"i think you really have to be yourself. the best thing you can do, for anybody, is to just offer one more honest adult in their lives."
"there is only one you, and you are special. there never was before, and there never will be, anyone exaclty like you."
“You know, you don't have to look like everybody else to be acceptable and to feel acceptable.”
"I have a very modulated way of dealing with my anger. I have always tried to understand the other person and invariably I've discovered that somebody who rubs you the wrong way has been rubbed the wrong way many times."
"If only you could sense how important you are to the lives of those you meet; how important you can be to people you may never even dream of. There is something of yourself that you leave at every meeting with another person."
"Often, problems are knots with many strands, and looking at those strands can make a problem seem different." (i explained this to my oldest and he really took it to heart. i felt all squishy inside)
"One of my wise teachers, Dr. Orr, told me, "There is only one thing evil cannot stand, and that is forgiveness.""
"People have said "Don't cry" to other people for years and years, and all it has ever meant is "I'm too uncomfortable when you show your feelings: Don't cry." I'd rather have them say, "Go ahead and cry. I'm here to be with you.""
"If the day ever came when we were able to accept ourselves and our children exactly as we and they are, then, I believe, we would have come very close to an ultimate understanding of what "good" parenting means. It's part of being human to fall short of that total acceptance-and often far short. But one of the most important gifts a parent can give a child is the gift of that child's uniqueness."