My meaning is, that no man can expect his children to respect what he degrades.
Interpretation
Parents must model respect and integrity to earn the same from their children.
This quote by Charles Dickens emphasizes the importance of setting a positive example for children. It suggests that children learn values and attitudes from their parents; if a parent degrades certain principles or behaviors, children are unlikely to respect those values or the parent themselves. Therefore, to foster a respectful relationship with their children, parents must embody the respect they wish to instill.
In practice
In a parenting seminar discussing the influence of actions over words.
I recollected one story there was in the village, how that on a certain night in the year (it might be that very night for anything I knew), all the dead people came out of the ground and sat at the heads of their own graves till morning.
A silent look of affection and regard when all other eyes are turned coldly away-the consciousness that we possess the sympathy and affection of one being when all others have deserted us-is a hold, a stay, a comfort, in the deepest affliction, which no wealth could purchase, or power bestow.
Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts. I was better after I had cried, than before--more sorry, more aware of my own ingratitude, more gentle.
There are not a few among the disciples of charity who require, in their vocation, scarcely less excitement than the votaries of pleasure in theirs.
You might, from your appearance, be the wife of Lucifer,” said Miss Pross, in her breathing. “Nevertheless, you shall not get the better of me. I am an Englishwoman.
Christmas is a poor excuse every 25th of December to pick a man's pockets.
When you have a father and a mother who work all their lives so you can have an education and build your body - it's a blessing.
There are just so many stories that are buried on family trees.
Parents and children seldom act in concert:_x000D_ each child endeavors to appropriate_x000D_ the esteem or fondness of the parents,_x000D_ and the parents, with yet less temptation,_x000D_ betray each other to their children.
There is always a place where, if you listen closely in the night, you will hear a mother telling a story and at the end of the tale, she will ask you this question: 'Ou libéré?' Are you free, my daughter?" My grandmother quickly pressed her fingers over my lips. Now," she said, "you will know how to answer.
We didn't have anyone to tell us that what was going on with me was alright. There was no information about transgender people when we started our journey, but we managed to make it through because of the tremendous amount of love that our family had.
Womenfolk raised me and I was full-grown before I knew I came from a broken home
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