L. Ron Hubbard
L. Ron Hubbard
Lafayette Ronald Hubbard, better known as L. Ron Hubbardand often referred to by his initials, LRH, was an American author and the founder of the Church of Scientology. In 2014, Hubbard was cited by the Smithsonian magazine as one of the 100 most significant Americans of all time, as one of the eleven religious figures on that list. After establishing a career as a writer, becoming best known for his science fiction and fantasy stories, he developed a system called...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionReligious Leader
Date of Birth13 March 1911
CityTilden, NE
CountryUnited States of America
You want to raise your child in such a way that you don't have to control him, so that he will be in full possession of himself at all times. Upon that depends his good behavior, his health, his sanity.
Let the child see Mama and Daddy both at least once a day. Never quarrel or argue in front of a baby or a child-it destroys security.
Today's children will become tomorrow's civilization.
It is a remarkable fact, a scientific fact, that the healthiest children come from the happiest mothers.
As long as children and young men and women find pleasure in study, they will continue studying throughout life - and upon that depends their happiness.
Maintain silence in the presence of birth to save both the sanity of the mother and the child and safeguard the home to which they will go.
It is not possible to 'spoil' a child with love and affection...a child needs all the love and affection it can possibly get.
Save the child and you save the nation.
Perhaps the single most important point for parents to follow is the importance of giving goals to a child. And the most important goal is that of growing up to be an adult.
We're not playing some minor game in Scientology. It isn't cute or something to do for lack of something better. The whole agonized future of this planet, every Man, Woman and Child on it, and your own destiny for the next endless trillions of years depend on what you do here and now with and in Scientology.
Affection can no more spoil a child than the sun could be put out by a bucket of gasoline.
A philosophy can only be a route to knowledge. It cannot be knowledge crammed down one's throat. If one has a route, he can then find what is true for him. And that is Scientology.
You would be amazed how much action anyone is capable of.
Let me clarify this very definitely. This is not an authoritarian organization.