A child of one can be taught not to do certain things such as touch a hot stove, turn on the gas, pull lamps off their tables by their cords, or wake mommy before noon.
Children Quotes
The grownup’s response to me was to advise me to lay aside my drawing and devote myself instead to geography, history, arithmetic and grammar. That is why, at the age of six, I gave up what might have been a magnificent career as a painter. Grown ups never understand anything by themselves, and this is […]
It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.
I hope to leave my children a sense of empathy and pity and a will to right social wrongs.
Some of my best friends are children. In fact, all of my best friends are children.
One beautiful December day. I went up on the roof-terrace with the children. I was sitting near a chimney, and said to a little five-year-old boy who sat beside me, “Draw me a picture of this chimney.” He got down obediently and made a rough sketch of the chimney. The child looked at me, smiled, […]
Even very young children need to be informed about dying. Explain the concept of death very carefully to your child. This will make threatening him with it much more effective.
The child’s true constructive energy, a dynamic power, has remained unnoticed for thousands of years. Just as men have trodden the earth, and later tilled its surface, without thought for the immense wealth hidden in its depths, so the men of our day make progress after progress in civilized life, without noticing the treasures that […]
Humans are the only animals that have children on purpose with the exception of guppies, who like to eat theirs.
The child becoming incarnate is a spiritual embryo, which needs its own special environment. Just as a physical embryo needs its mother’s womb in which to grow, so the spiritual embryo needs to be protected by an eternal environment that is warm with love and rich in nourishment, where everything is disposed to welcome, and […]
