First of my own personal requirements is inner calm. This, I think, is an essential. One of the secrets of using your time well is to gain a certain ability to maintain peace within yourself so that much can go on around you and you can stay calm inside.
Eleanor RooseveltFurnish an example, stop preaching, stop shielding, don't prevent self-reliance and initiative, allow your children to develop along thier own lines.
Eleanor RooseveltIt is curious how much more interest can be evoked by a mixture of gossip, romance and mystery than by facts.
Eleanor Roosevelt