Parents who rob their children of limits hurt the development of something deep within their child: their capacity to care, to understand, and to show concern. From adversity, from limits, from “no’s,” and from expectations, children develop greater depths of empathy, compassion, and understanding. Without these experiences, they develop a one-dimensional view of the world […]
Children Quotes
There are no seven wonders of the world in the eyes of a child. There are seven million.
In raising my children, I have lost my mind but found my soul.
Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.
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.
The best preparation for being a happy and useful man or woman is to live fully as a child.
See what will happen if you don’t stop biting your fingernails? (to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo)
No Columbus, no Marco Polo has ever seen stranger and more fascinating and thoroughly absorbing sights than the child that learns to perceive, to taste, to smell, to touch, to hear and see, and to use his body, his senses, and his mind. No wonder that the child shows an insatiable curiosity. He has the […]
If you live with a cripple, you will learn to limp.
