We spend the first year of a child's life teaching it to walk and talk and the rest of its life to shut up and sit down. There's something wrong there.
Creativity becomes more visible when adults try to be more attentive to the cognitive processes of children than to the results they achieve in various fields of doing and understanding.
(pl. ) of Child
(n.) pl. of Child.
Easter tells us of something children can't understand, because it addresses things they don't yet have to know: the weariness of life, the pain, the profound loneliness and hovering fear of meaningle...
The best thing parents can do for their children is allow them to be who they were born to be.
The arrangements that couples make in order to maintain civility in the midst of their journey to divorce are often most elaborate when the professed top priority is to protect a child.
In this modern world where activity is stressed almost to the point of mania, quietness as a childhood need is too often overlooked. Yet a child's need for quietness is the same today as it has always...
Grown-up people find it difficult to believe really wonderful things, unless they have what they call proof. But children will believe almost anything, and grown-ups know this. That is why they tell y...
It was one of those ridiculous arrangements that couples make when they are separating, but before they are divorced - when they still imagine that children and property can be shared with more magnan...
How can there be too many children? That is like saying there are too many flowers." ~ Mother Teresa of Calcutta
Shall I confess it, Mr. Hartright? I sadly want a reform in the construction of children. Nature's only idea seems to be to make them machines for the production of incessant noise.
Children teach us more than our elders because they are a real reflector of our society.
Children judge each other harshly, but don't make nice distinctions among the grown.
Children have imagination enough to grasp any idea which you present to them with honesty and without patronage.
Children, they're the same everywhere. Greedy little creatures but the best listeners in the world -any world. The very best of all.
When people talk about how fast children forget, how fast they forgive, how sensitive they are, I let it go in one ear and out the other. Children can remember and forget and totally freeze to death t...
There is no substitute for books in the life of a child.
The minds of small children are more interested in clockwork trains, jumping in puddles and other important childhood endeavours.
I think the closest thing to a time machine that I've ever found is the Children's section of a library.
How much our society values its children can be measured by how well they are treated and protected.
I remember the shift that occurred after Abby was born - there'd been the great big before, where dying grandparents and natural disasters on the news were sad but mostly distant concerns. But then I...
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