Kevin Leman Quotes

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I believe that love takes time. I believe there is such a thing as infatuation at first sight, but not love at first sight.

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That's the way it is with firstborns. Mom and Dad may think they're in charge, but the firstborn knows better, and so does the youngest sibling.

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Your home needs to be a place where your kids can fail—and learn from their failure. Surround them with love, show them how important they are to you, but don't try to undo their failures. It's not our job as parents to get our kids off the hook.

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I believe the time we really look big in a child's eyes is when we go to them and apologize for our mistakes and we say, 'I was wrong. Will you forgive me?'

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How parents interact with each child as he or she enters the family circle determines in great part that child's final destiny.

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Love is a cognitive, willful act. Feelings have very little to do with it, particularly around three o'clock in the morning when the baby needs changing or somebody has "lost it" before getting to the bathroom to throw up.

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The older your teenagers are, the more they will have their own ideas and opinions. If you take them seriously, rather than assuming your ideas are always best and the only ones, you will begin to grow a relationship that will extend beyond the hormone-group years.

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Moms are, in my opinion, the wonders of the universe. They can leap tall buildings in a single bound, they can go where no person has gone before, and they can somehow get toddlers to eat. The problem is that mothers are also some of the most stressed people on the planet. There's just so much to do and not enough of them.

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Life is a pressure cooker and whether you remain serene or become stressed-out depends on how you handle that pressure.

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If you want to improve your sex life as a couple, you need to examine your relationship outside the bedroom. What are you doing that is keeping you from sexual intimacy?

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Sex is all that it can and should be only when it is surrounded by and wrapped in love.

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Nobody's sex life is such that every experience is a ten. You may have to be satisfied with regular eights or sixes and even an occasional three.

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Remember, you cannot be responsible for the happiness of other people. You can do your best to be sensitive to the needs and desires of others, but some people will not be happy no matter how much you do for them. If you decided you were responsible for their happiness, you could drive yourself completely up the nearest wall.

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Most arguments with teenagers are setups. Your darling, simply stated, is manipulating you.

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The only way we can ever teach a child to say "I'm sorry" is for him to hear it from our lips first.

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A fulfilling sex life is one of the most powerful marital glues a couple can have.

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