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Our greatest duty to our children is to love them first. Secondly, it is to teach them. Not to frighten, force, or intimidate our children into submission, but to effectively teach them so that they have the knowledge and tools to govern themselves.
Our greatest duty to our children is to love them first. Secondly, it is to teach them. Not to frighten, force, or intimidate our children into submission, but to effectively teach them so that they have the knowledge and tools to govern themselves.
Approximate author period: c. 2014 AD · contemporary
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- Richelle E. Goodrich
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- Approximate author period: c. 2014 AD · contemporary
Author activity documented by the author's own dated Smile Anyway blog posts in 2014. A 21st-century author-period anchor, not the composition year of all attributed sayings. Source: https://smileanywaybook.blogspot.com/ (accessed 2026-10-08).
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