“ The way children stretch time and the way adults forget that stretch could be one of the saddest differences in the world. Catherine Lacey
“ Time can play all sorts of tricks on you. In the blink of an eye, babies appear in carriages, coffins disappear into the ground, wars are won and lost, and children transform, like butterflies, into a… Brian Selznick
“ The biggest mistake I made is the one that most of us make while doing this. I did not live in the moment enough. This is particularly clear now that the moment is gone, captured only in photographs.… Anna Quindlen
“ Nature attunes children to receive the coded messages that parents issue how to live a joyful and virtuous life. Kilroy J. Oldster
“ A particularly difficult line to navigate is the one between fear and love, especially for parents, who want more than anything to protect their children from suffering. Sharon Salzberg
“ Mom actually said that?" Cassie's face shown with happiness. "She always hated my math!""Nah," Martin said. "She was just being that way for you. She thought it was what you needed to hear. If parents… Clare B. Dunkle
“ The red firelight glowed on their two bonny heads and revealed their faces, animated with the eager interest of children; for, though he was twenty-three and she eighteen, each had so much of novelty… Emily Bronte
“ If you have people who treat you badly in your life, they will be a human shield against people who will treat you well. If that’s not true then we should apply it to marriage and start saying to woma… Stefan Molyneux
“ The best baby-sitters, of course, are the baby’s grandparents. You feel completely comfortable entrusting your baby to them for long periods, which is why most grandparents flee to Florida. Dave Barry
“ It is a healthy approach not to expect persons to turn out precisely how you would have wished. Criss Jami
“ I guess to their wide, innocent eyes it all seemed like normal family life because they had never known any different. In fact, I was the only one who had lived with anyone else, the only one that rea… Joe Peters
“ To a lot of children, school is currently mostly a place to learn what you aren’t any good at. Danny Mekić
“ Let them learn at school whatever they learn to pass the examinations, but at home let the education that you provide be the kind that widens their perceptions and takes away the germs of prejudices t… Abhijit Naskar
“ Today, one must either be isolated and cut off, or a carefully guarded, affluent drop-out, to allow one's children to play in an environment where they listen to people rather than to stars, speakers,… Ivan Illich
“ When children are very young, they have natural curiosities about the world and explore them, trying diligently to figure out what is real. As they become "producers " they fall away from exploration… John Holt
