Parents set themselves to bend the will of their children to their own – to break their stubborn spirit, as they call it – with the ruthlessness of Grand Inquisitors. Cunning, unscrupulous children learn all the arts of the sneak in circumventing tyranny: children of better character are cruelly distressed and more or less lamed […]
Children Quotes
There are only two things a child will share willingly – communicable diseases and his mother’s age.
When I bring you colored toys, my child, I understand why there is such a play of colors on clouds, on water, and why flowers are painted in tints.
If you strike a child, take care that you strike it in anger, even at the risk of maiming it for life. A blow in cold blood neither can nor should be forgiven.
Every child senses, with all the horse sense that’s in him, that any parent is angry inside when children misbehave and they dread more the anger that is rarely or never expressed openly, wondering how awful it might be.
Is nothing in life ever straight and clear, the way children see it?
Romance fails us and so do friendships, but the relationship of parent and child, less noisy than all the others, remains indelible and indestructible, the strongest relationship on earth.
Love, children, and work are the great sources of fertilizing contact between the individual and the rest of the world.
We can’t all leave a prestigious background or lots of money to visit our children, but we can leave them a legacy of love.
I can remember, at the age of five, being told that childhood was the happiest period of life (a blank lie, in those days). I wept inconsolably, wished I were dead, and wondered how I should endure the boredom of the years to come.
