Quotes by Heather Choate Davis, Elijah & the SAT: Reflections on a hairy old desert prophet and the benchmarking of our children's lives

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The attempt to prevent our kids from struggling for fear it might scar their permanent records is, instead, scarring the — Heather Choate Davis, Elijah & the SAT: Reflections on a hairy old desert prophet and the benchmarking of our children's lives
Our own egos are so fragile we cannot bear to give our lives to the raising of children only to have them become ordinar — Heather Choate Davis, Elijah & the SAT: Reflections on a hairy old desert prophet and the benchmarking of our children's lives
We fluff them and fold them and nudge them and enhance them and bind them and break them and embellish them beyond measu — Heather Choate Davis, Elijah & the SAT: Reflections on a hairy old desert prophet and the benchmarking of our children's lives
Did you notice there aren’t any average kids anymore—only Gifted and Disposable? — Heather Choate Davis, Elijah & the SAT: Reflections on a hairy old desert prophet and the benchmarking of our children's lives
We fluff them and fold them and nudge them and enhance them and bind them and break them and embellish them beyond measu — Heather Choate Davis, Elijah & the SAT: Reflections on a hairy old desert prophet and the benchmarking of our children's lives
I can’t hear God’s voice for my kids, but I can watch and listen and pray and adjust and try not to screw up whatever He — Heather Choate Davis, Elijah & the SAT: Reflections on a hairy old desert prophet and the benchmarking of our children's lives
When God says hold up, wait, pray, it’s not your time yet, our entire bodies rebel, legs kicking and flailing like some — Heather Choate Davis, Elijah & the SAT: Reflections on a hairy old desert prophet and the benchmarking of our children's lives
We love Christmas presents but not Christ; Easter baskets but not crosses. We want to tell our friends with cancer that — Heather Choate Davis, Elijah & the SAT: Reflections on a hairy old desert prophet and the benchmarking of our children's lives
America is a young country, young and brash and prone to errors. Like teenagers. For all our inherent goodness, we’ve be — Heather Choate Davis, Elijah & the SAT: Reflections on a hairy old desert prophet and the benchmarking of our children's lives
Even if we’ve never been inside a synagogue or a mosque or a church—even if we have, and vowed never to go back—deep dow — Heather Choate Davis, Elijah & the SAT: Reflections on a hairy old desert prophet and the benchmarking of our children's lives
In our post-everything culture, obey has become a four-letter word. Obeying is for wimps. Obeying is for people who didn — Heather Choate Davis, Elijah & the SAT: Reflections on a hairy old desert prophet and the benchmarking of our children's lives