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May. 2nd, 2007 10:28 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
randomnessThe older you get, the more serious the consequences of your actions tend to be. Best to learn about those consequences early, from someone who loves you and means you well, rather than later, from the cold, cruel world, which cares about you not at all.
With the caveat that I am not a parent, it strikes me that delivering those consequences is a crucial--though often difficult and sometimes heartrending--aspect of parenting.
With the caveat that I am not a parent, it strikes me that delivering those consequences is a crucial--though often difficult and sometimes heartrending--aspect of parenting.
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Date: 2007-05-02 05:30 pm (UTC)I've always liked this quote from the 1st Earl of Balfour: "Nothing matters very much, and few things matter at all."
(from http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/a/arthurjame153126.html)
On the other hand, this is the man who wrote the Balfour Declaration, so clearly some things really do matter.