Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.
Children Quotes
We need to teach our children that they can’t cheat. There is no way to pull it off: You can’t lie to life. You may deceive your teacher about what you know, but you can’t deceive life. What you haven’t learned leaves a hole that nothing but that learning can fill and no amount of […]
It’s a great mistake, I think, to put children off with falsehoods and nonsense, when their growing powers of observation and discrimination excite in them a desire to know about things.
Children desperately need to know – and to hear in ways they understand and remember – that they’re loved and valued by mom and dad.
Making the decision to have a child – it’s momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.
You save an old man and you save a unit; but save a boy and you save a multiplication table.
The only way on God’s earth you will ever solve the problem of reaching the masses is by getting hold of the Children. You get boys and girls started right and the devil will hang crepe on his door.
There are some of us who in after years say to Fate, “Now deal us your hardest blow, give us what you will; but let us never again suffer as we suffered when we were children.”
Children are excellent physiognomists and soon discover their real friends. Luttrell calls them all lunatics and so in fact they are. What is childhood but a series of happy delusions?
Children should be led into the right paths, not by severity, but by persuasion.
