<!-- bryant-content-generator:start --> # Our children can be our greatest teachers if we... > Our children can be our greatest teachers if we are humble enough to receive their lessons. {{Respect is the most generous and wise teacher you will ever have in your life.}} But y{Y{ou cannot learn from what you dominate because anything you suppress, you also smother and silence what it had to teach you.}} Anyone you seek to control you secretly despise; this includes your children, companions and yourself. The spirit of control is supremely hateful. {{The nightmare spirit of control has always been, and is, profoundly stupid.}} **Source:** [[books/Simple Reminders Book (2014-2018)|Simple Reminders]] <!-- bryant-content-generator:end -->