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25 beautiful quotes on friendship that will make you call your bestie immediately
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J.K. Rowling and Jane Austen both have beautiful things to say on friendship. - photo by McKenna Park
You wont be able to resist calling your best friend right after reading these 25 beautiful quotes on friendship:

1. "Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: What! You too? I thought I was the only one.'" C.S. Lewis

2. "Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant." Socrates

3. "Some people go to priests, others to poetry, I to my friends." Virginia Woolf

4. "No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow." Alice Walker

5. "The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it." Hubert H. Humphrey

6. "One of the most beautiful qualities of friendship is to understand and to be understood." Lucius Annaeus Seneca

7. "Walking with your friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light." Helen Keller

8. "Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend." Martin Luther King Jr.

9. "The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, not the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship." Ralph Waldo Emerson

10. "We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses there is at last one which makes the heart run over." Ray Bradbury

11. "Never leave a friend behind. Friends are all we have to get us through this life and they are the only things from this world that we could hope to see in the next." Dean Koontz

12. "How many slams in an old screen door? Depends how loud you shut it. How many slices in a bread? Depends how thin you cut it. How much good inside a day? Depends how good you live em. How much love inside a friend? Depends how much you give em." Shel Silverstein

13. "A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you." Elbert Hubbard

14. "Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life." Mark Twain

15. "If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you." Joan Powers

16. "There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature." Jane Austen

17. "There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate." Linda Grayson

18. "Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art.... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival." C.S. Lewis

19. "What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies." Aristotle

20. "The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away." Barbara Kingsolver

21. "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." Friedrich Nietzsche

22. "Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. Its not something you learn in school. But if you havent learned the meaning of friendship, you really havent learned anything." Muhammad Ali

23. '"He must have known I'd want to leave you.'

"'No, he must have known you would always want to come back.' J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

24. "It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words like 'What about lunch?'" A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

25. "Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born." Anas Nin
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How to avoid 'sharenting' and other paparazzi parenting habits
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A recent study revealed parents often spend up to two hours staging a single photo of his or her child to post online. - photo by Amy Iverson
Before having kids, some people just dont appreciate their friends baby posts. But after having a child of their own, three fourths of new parents jump right on the parental social media bandwagon. If you have become a member of this group, there are some rules to follow for posting responsibly.

Much of a parents worry is how to teach their children to use social media responsibly. We talk with our kids about privacy, oversharing, and setting restrictions on their devices to keep them safe. But parents themselves need to look in the digital mirror once in a while. Before having children, it doesnt take as much effort to think about what to post online. Its up to us to decide what we share about our own lives. But once you become a parent, there are many questions to think about regarding what is appropriate to post about your kids on social media.

In a recent survey, kids clothing subscription company Mac and Mia surveyed 2000 new parents to find out how they are documenting their kids lives on social media, and what concerns they may have.

First of all, people without children seem to feel a bit differently about the onslaught of baby pictures online than those who are parents. 18 percent of people say before they had kids, they were annoyed by their friends baby posts. But after having children of their own, 73 percent admit they post progress pictures of their little ones every single month.

Not only are new parents letting the world know each time their baby is a month older, but they are posting about their kids every few days or so. Men and women report they post 6-7 times per month about their baby.

And while 70 percent of new parents say the benefit of using social media is how easy it is to help family and friends feel involved, there are some downsides. Here are a few tips to avoid the pitfall of becoming paparazzi parents.

Dont miss the moment

In the Mac and Mia survey, some parents admitted to spending up to two hours to get the perfect shot of their baby. That seems a little extreme. New and old parents alike should be careful about spending so much time taking pictures and videos that they dont enjoy the moment. Years ago, I decided to never live an experience through my phone. A study by Linda Henkel, a psychology professor at Fairfield University in Connecticut, found that when people took pictures of objects in an art museum, they didnt remember the objects as well as if they simply observed them.

This photo-taking impairment effect can happen to parents as well. If we are so consumed by getting the perfect photo, we can miss out on the moment all together, and our memory of it will suffer.

Dont forget about privacy

60 percent of couples say they have discussed rules and boundaries for posting their babys photos, according to the Mac and Mia survey. Even so, men are 34 percent more likely to publish baby posts on public accounts. If parents are concerned about their childrens privacy, keeping photos off of public accounts is a given.

In the Washington Post, Stacey Steinberg, a legal skills professor at the University of Florida, and Bahareh Keith, a Portland pediatrician, wrote that sharing too much information about kids online puts them at risk. They write that all that sharenting can make it easier for data thieves to target out kids for identity theft. Check that your privacy settings are where they should be and never share identifying information like full names and birth dates.

Dont be paparazzi parents

36 percent of parents say they take issue when their childs photo is posted online by someone else. Responsible social media users will always ask permission before posting a photo of another child. But parents should also think about whether their own children will take issue with their own posted photos a few years down the road.

When parents are constantly snapping pictures and throwing them on social media, it can be easy to forget to pause and make sure the post is appropriate. I always use the billboard example with my kids. I ask them to picture whatever they are posting going up on a billboard in our neighborhood. If they are okay with that, then their post is probably fine. Parents should ask themselves this same question when posting about their children. But they should also ask themselves if their child would be OK with this post on a billboard in 15 years. If it would cause embarrassment or humiliation, it might be best to keep it private.

Once children reach an appropriate age, parents should include them in the process of deciding what pictures are OK to post. Researchers at the University of Michigan surveyed 10- to 17-year-olds and found children believe their parents should ask permission more than parents think they should. The kids in the survey said sharing happy family moments, or accomplishments in sports, school and hobbies is fine. But when the post is negative (like when a child is disciplined) or embarrassing (think naked baby pictures or messy hair), kids say to keep it off social media.
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